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Scholars in Action: Frank Goodyear Analyzes a Daguerreotype
  What did you first notice about this image?
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What is your general approach to reading photographs ?
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What do you notice now?
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What additonal questions would you ask of this photograph?
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Where else would you look for evidence to place this photograph in context?
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Frank H. Goodyear, III Frank H. Goodyear, III, is the associate curator of photographs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies department at George Washington University. He is the author of Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief, Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer, and Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924.