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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- Swift and Company letter on letterhead
- Swift and Company pork packers and shippers of dressed beef, mutton and pork. Text reads: " Mr. Day K. Smith, Supt. Belt Line, Kansas City, Mo. Dear sir: We are in need of the following material with which to repair our tracks at Armourdale. Will you kindly furnish same and render bill to us for cost thereof. 30 Steel rails, 30 ft. Long each. 1000 R. R. Spikes 76 Angle fish plates, 4 holes each 150 Fish plate bolts. 150 Verona Nut locks 25 Outsude [sic.] rail braces. Yours respectfully, Swift and Company W. E. Lewis
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- Taken in front of his tepee on July 4th 1911. He is now ready for the Indian Dance. The Indian Medicine Dance is a religious affair. Lovingly-Nellie S.
- Nellie May Sherwood is probably the photographer who used a Brownie camera, is probably the wife of a missionary, and is the sister of Lucy Whitten. Brownie Souvenir Cut-down postcard postmarked unknown to Miss Lucy Whitten, Muzette, Pa."On account of lack of time and so many to write to I must only send a card. Thanks for the book-mark. I hope you are getting stronger both physically and spiritually. This is one of the Blackfeet Indians in his war costume."
![The "Soft Nose" Bullet Did it. The Big Bill [Elk] of the Tetons](https://images.nationalcowboymuseum.org/islandora/object/ncm%3A132109/datastream/TN/view)
