CHIEF JOSEPH Moses of the Mesa Nez Perce 1879 Vintage Photograph Cab Card RP CDV for Sale

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CHIEF JOSEPH Moses of the Mesa Nez Perce 1879 Vintage Photograph Cab Card RP CDV For Sale

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CHIEF JOSEPH Moses of the Mesa Nez Perce 1879 Vintage Photograph Cab Card RP CDV:
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Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph or Young Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. He succeeded his father Tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) in the early 1870s.

Chief Joseph led his band of Nez Perce during the most tumultuous period in their history, when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon onto a significantly reduced reservation in the Idaho Territory. A series of violent encounters with white settlers in the spring of 1877 culminated in those Nez Perce who resisted removal, including Joseph's band and an allied band of the Palouse tribe, to flee the United States in an attempt to reach political asylum alongside the Lakota people, who had sought refuge in Canada under the leadership of Sitting Bull.

Quality restoration/reproduction from a vintage cabinet card photograph - a Canon Archival Quality Semi-gloss Print from an original. Mounted on sturdy chipboard, the overall card is approximately 4” x 6”.First Class Shipping in US. See Global Shipping Program for International.The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture from the 1860’s through the early part of the 20th Century.It consisted of a thin albumen photographic paper print mounted on a card. They are often confused with Carte de Visité (CDV), a similar but smaller format introduced around 1854 in France. CDV’s were very popular during the American Civil War.“Cabinet Card” portraits were often presented and exchanged by individuals of position, and social standing. They came to replace at times the “calling card” as a currency of social exchange and introduction. They were often kept and displayed in glass “cabinets” to demonstrate acquaintance or connection in some way with the notables pictured in the portraits.