Fort Laramie, Wyoming
ca. 1866
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 12.8 × 17.8 cm (5 1/16 × 7 in.), oval Mount: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1237
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Ridgway Glover · 1831–1866
**Ridgway Glover (1831–1866) was an American photographer and special artist whose brief career captured the American frontier during a pivotal moment of westward expansion.** Born on May 29, 1831, into a Quaker family in Haddonfield, New Jersey, as the son of Elizabeth Lewis and John Glover, he initially worked as a farmer in Camden County before pursuing photography in nearby Philadelphia. Glov...