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Crow Indian Chief Carte de Visite from Bradys National Portrait Gallery - This 19th-century albumen print carte de visite (CDV) depicts a Crow Indian Chief in a full-length studio portrait. The subject is dressed in traditional hide and fur-trimmed regalia with decorated leggings and moccasins. The photograph is mounted on original cardstock. The reverse features a printed credit for E. and H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, noting the image was produced from a photographic negative in Bradys National Portrait Gallery. A handwritten ink inscription on the reverse states From the collection of Thos. Nast, referring to the 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Other pencil notations include reference numbers 7, d.21, 71/24P, and N/529. 4 inches