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Plenty Horses / L.T. Butterfield, Sioux Falls, Dak. – Historic Reproduction

Plenty Horses / L.T. Butterfield, Sioux Falls, Dak., c1891. — historic photograph
Plenty Horses / L.T. Butterfield, Sioux Falls, Dak., c1891.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Plenty Horses / L.T. Butterfield, Sioux Falls, Dak.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Plenty Horses / L.T. Butterfield, Sioux Falls, Dak.

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Few portraits from this period name the sitter's own act as their context, but this one shows Plenty Horses, a Lakota man, in a Sioux Falls studio around 1891. That year he became known nationally after he shot Lieutenant Edward W. Casey near the Pine Ridge agency in January, an incident that unfolded during the tense months surrounding the Ghost Dance and the army's presence on the reservations. The studio was run by L.T. Butterfield, and the cabinet card format was a common, inexpensive way to circulate portraits in the 1890s. Its posed, formal style invites a closer look at how a man at the center of a controversial event chose to present himself to the camera.

Created / publishedc1891.
Medium1 photographic print on cabinet card.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
Notes16323W U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsPlenty Horses,--d. 1933.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,244 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184805

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