Prints & Photographs Division
Acquisition and Appraisal Information
John Ross, full length portrait, facing front
standing next to a small table. Half-plate daguerreotype, ca. 1850.
Purchase http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g11120
John Ross (1790-1866)
led the Cherokees for more than fifty years during one of the most turbulent
times in their history as they fought to retain their homeland.