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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- Description on back of card reads: " A Nes Perce Indian, who escaped from his band, while surrounded in the bad lands of Nebraska, by Gen'l Miles, in 1878. He then joined Sitting Bull's band of Uncapapa Souix Indians in the British possessions and has followed their fortunes ever since. He lost his feet above the ankles, also his right hand by being frozen, having been caught in one of the sever snow storms 21 years ago."
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- Street scene at Anadarko, O.T.
- Title handwritten on back of card.
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- Students at Santa Fe Indian School
- Stamped on back: "Study by T. Harmon Parkhurst Santa Fe, New Mexico"
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- Summer Camp US Military Academy West Point class of 1879
- Some of the cadets' names are written on the photo. Stivers, Frank Jones, Albert Mills, Gale, Dowdy
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- Sunday Morning in Camps
- Group of hunters in camp with tent in background; Group includes a sheriff or law enforcement person with badge pinned to his vest; a deer and 2 bobcats hanging from wooden poles
