Solomon Nunes Carvalho: Painter, Photographer & Prophet in 19th Century America

On view:

Thursday, June 7, 1990 - Sunday, October 7, 1990

Exhibition Resources

Magnes Collection Database:

letter written, in 1855, by Julius Eckman, the rabbi of San Francisco’s Congregation Emanu-El, to Solomon Nunes Carvalho, who served as the official photographer of John C. Fremont’s expedition (1853-1854).

Magnes Collection Database:

Justin G. Turner’s A Note on Solomon Nunes Carvalho and his Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (printed in Los Angeles by The Plantin Press, 1960)