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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: Descending into Grand View Trail by a short, steep mining path, Grand Canyon of Arizona; Forms part of Grand Canyon of Arizona Through the Stereoscope box set

: Dewitt Pat Gray; On back: Dewitt Pat Gray cowboy hearded [sic] for my brother Ed Carpenter year 1887 on Indian Potawanimia Reservation

: Diana Waiting for the Ducks to Come In; Sportsman's Series stereograph boxed set

: Dipping cattle in arsenic to kill ticks, Sweetwater, Texas.; "A Modern Cowboy"

: Do I get you kid?; Text on front of card: "Ready to love or kill, I'm after you and hope to find you still are true for it would make me awful blue if you don't save that order due." Text on back of card: "We sell: Lumber--fir, spruce, white and Western pine, yellow pine; Posts--Idaho, Tenn. and Ark. Red Cedar and White Cedar Posts and Poles; Shingles--Red Cedar shingles and siding; In transit--everything." Text on back of card cont.: "Walrath & Sherwood Lumber Co. 'The transit car folks' Prescott, Ark., OMAHA, Seattle Wash."

: Dolly Mullins and Mildred Douglas trick riding Cheyenne Frontier Days

: Donna Card

: Door to Fort

: Dorothy Morrell Riding "Crawfish" Alliance Rodeo

: Dorothy Morrell on Skuball; Handwritten note in ink to Madie B. Krenz, Whitman, Nebr. South Rte.: "Hello old friends - awfully busy but read yours to Walt and want to say I appreciate your kindness. Hope this old world isn't dealing too roughly with you? We still entertain hopes in spite of it all - Would like to hear from you and send my regards. (Salt Creek Wyo.) An old friend, Edith"