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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![Jess Stahl on Glass Eye, [California] Rodeo, Salinas](https://images.nationalcowboymuseum.org/islandora/object/ncm%3A140653/datastream/TN/view)
![Jessie A. Chance, Canton - Ohio [Indian War officer seated with two children]](https://images.nationalcowboymuseum.org/islandora/object/ncm%3A144239/datastream/TN/view)
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- Jim Whitegrass, tribal grass dancer
- Front image of Jim Whitegrass shown in image archive. Text beneath image says "Meet me in Galcier National Park this summer." On back of card: "Jim Whitegrass, tribal grass dancer. Delegate from Glacier National Park to the Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore, Md., September 24 to October 8, 1927." When card is opened, on left side is a lithographic image of three men in front of a mountain river. Caption reads, "Glacier National Park is the summer playground of the Blackfeet Indians." On right hand side of opened card is a lithographic image of two tipis near a stream. Caption reads, "Come and spend a vacation with us among the lakes, mountains and glaciers."
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- John Minthorn, great warrior
- Original box container labeled, "32 - Indian Pictures Property of E. M. Brower"; Brower worked with the Nez Perce in the 1920s and 1930s and had a funeral business in Lewiston, Idaho with a partner who was raised in White Bird, Idaho by a Nez Perce family. Brower died in 1939.
