Photographic Study Collection

Spanning the history of photography, this collection brings together examples of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, cased photographs, stereographs, photographic postcards, silver gelatin prints, and more. The topics covered in the collection primarily focus on the general history of the American West.

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: Cattle Herding [Cowboy herding cattle in the snow]; Vintage image on contemporary postcard

: Cattle Round-up in Arizona

: Cattle Stalls, Union Stock Yards, Chicago

: Cattle in a corral

: Cavalry man posing with Colt revolver

: Cecil Owsley - roping his calf. Frontier Days - Cheyenne - 1938

: Champion Cowgirls, Round Up, Pendleton, Ore.

: Charles Powers Picks a Bad One at the Frontier Day Celebration '24 Medora, N.D.; Handwritten note in ink to Mr. Allen Lembigder, 668 Madison St, Milwaukee, Wis: "Miles City Montana June 27, 1930 Hello! Allen:- How do you like this high dive. Isn't it pretty - This is a real cowboy country - Hot as sin today - We are leaving here today. Headed for house. Love Aunt Jane"

: Chas. M. Carson, Palmetto, Mississippi, Aug. 16, 1898; Title is handwritten in pencil on back

: Chas. M. Russell on his "Cow Pony" at his Log Studio, Great Falls, Mont.; Postmarked April 26, 1910 Helena, Mont. Handwritten in ink: "Miss L. Netherfield, 317 North 10th Street, Paterson [sic] New Jersey...This is the painter of the cow waiting for the Chinook which I sent you once..AR" Printed on card: "Montana has one illustrious son in the person of Chas. M. Russell, the true 'Cow Boy Artist.' He paints Western Range life and Indians as no other artist has done. All his friends call him 'Charlie' and he is a prince of goodfellows."