universityen at yale . and are tremendously exciting images, the best known of them was this one, an image that depicted general john wool in his troops marching down the street in 1847. this body of pictures represented the earliest examples of photojournalism in the world. the very first time a photographer had gone out with a camera to photograph an event for its newsworthy value. they are of course the world first photographs of war. you can imagine the excitement with which i received a phone call here at amon carter museum in 1980, from a colleague in connecticut. he asked if i heard the exciting news. he said that west point had acquired a collection of daguerreotypes. that was terrific am i picked up the phone to call might counter cap -- my colleague at west point. he said, good timing. this morning a board of trustees turned it down, they are not here. i said, well, where are they? he said i cannot tell you. so i called back the book dealer who had told me about their existence in the first place