Pyramids of Major Dade

Pyramids of Major Dade

Photograph

Florida Club

Maker
Charles Seaver, Jr., American; George Pierron, American, b. France, b. 1816

Pyramids of Major Dade

From Florida, the Land of Flowers and Tropical Scenery


ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 2 15/16 × 3 1/16 in. (7.5 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 4 × 7 in. (10.1 × 17.8 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1984.1152.0002
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, TC: For a vivid description of ST. AUGUSTINE, READ BLOOMFIELD'S HISTORICAL GU[damage]
Printed on mount on recto, BC: FLORIDA, THE LAND OF FLOWERS AND TROPICAL SCENERY
Printed on applied label on verso, C: PYRAMIDS OF MAJOR DADE \ And 107 of his Men, who were Massacred at Fort Dade, Florida, by \ Osceola and his Band.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: L. A. D. C.
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