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Examples of Photographic vans, wagons and cars
1Photographs of photographic vans
War
2Roger Fenton: The artist's van
3Photographer teams and photographic vans during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Expeditions and surveys
4Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
Contemporary accounts
5Avery's Portable Daguerreotype Saloon (1847)
6Contemporary account of itinerant photographers in America (1856)
7Contemporary sources on photographic vans
8Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales (1860)
9A photographic van or a house on wheels (1875)

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