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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: Cuba Crutchfield, at the Missoula Stampede 1916

: Curing Buffalo Hides, Yellowstone River, Northern Cheyenne; During his career at Yankton, Morrow issued several different selections of his images, with the same pictures re-numbered each time. The Northern Cheyenne village series appeared among his earliest images, first issued in 1869-70. These are among the most important photographs ever made of Plains Indian people, illustrating the entire process of utilizing the meat and hides of the buffalo, the foundation technology of Plains Indian culture. Here, one can see the entire process in various stages.

: Custom House Dogulas, Ariz.

: Cutting Out

: Cutting out a steer from a round-up

: Dan Dix and his mule the "Stampede" New York City. 1916

: Dan Offett Bulldogging from Auto, Hutchinson, Kan.

: Dancing Boy - Blackfeet Indian - Glacier National Park, Montana; "Route of the Streamlined Empire Builder between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest Via Glacier National Park."