Sun and Silver: Photography Before Statehood
Closed June 1, 2023
Sun and Silver: Photography Before Statehood exhibits a selection of images by twelve photographers who recorded the land, people, events, and places of Oklahoma and Indian Territories. From well known professional traveling and studio photographers, to the lesser-known amateur photographers, this exhibit is an exploration of photographic images before statehood.
Sun and Silver highlights early photographic processes, including images on mirror-like, silver-coated copper surfaces known as daguerreotypes; fragile glass negatives for wet-plate photography; and unique, blue-toned cyanotypes.
A cyanotype of Churchill and Mrs. Joseph A. Taff at the Wilson Springs Cabin in Sulphur, Indian Territory, c. 1901
(2153.5, Joseph F. Swords Collection, OHS).
