A Frontier Home.
19th c American Documentary Photography

AMERICAN Anonymous (c. 1500 - present)
c. 1860-1879
19th c
Albumen; Paper
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Documentary
Albumen silver print
Great Plains. United States.
New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The U.S. Homestead Act of 1862 provided that any citizen could apply for ownership of 160 acres of unappropriated public land. This is a view of a typical homestead on the Great Plains.