What do I want, John Henry?

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What do I want, John Henry?

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Alexander Gardner

American Photographer · 1821–1882

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As an idealistic young reporter and newspaper editor in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Gardner dreamed of forming a semi-socialistic colony somewhere in what he thought of as the unspoiled wilderness of America. He selected a place in Iowa, but even though he sent family and friends to live there, Gardner never joined them. Instead, when he disembarked in New York he remained. The celebrated America

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Date: November 1862
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Portrait of several officers seated in front of two tents at an encampment. One of the officers sits in a chair with his legs crossed and holds a pipe as a servant holding a bottle and a plate stands beside him.

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