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Hands Up!" Rounding up a horse thief" – Historic Reproduction

Hands Up!" Rounding up a horse thief", c1903. — historic photograph
Hands Up!" Rounding up a horse thief", c1903.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This stereograph, titled "Hands Up! Rounding up a horse thief," is a staged scene of cowboys confronting an alleged thief, with the caption promising a dramatic moment of frontier justice. Its catalog number, 3162, and the copyright line credited to T.W. Ingersoll place it among the commercial stereo views sold around 1903, when a pair of nearly identical images, viewed through a stereoscope, produced a convincing sense of depth. Stealing horses was among the most serious crimes on the open range, since a horse was often a rancher's livelihood, and such thefts sometimes led to swift, informal justice. The record's details are unverified, so the scene should be read as a popular dramatization of the Western rather than a documented event.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by T.W. Ingersoll. No. 3162. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Crime...; Cowboys--Misc.; Photog. Index; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 796 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132671

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