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[8-man buffalo hunt - skinning a carcass] – Vintage Wall Art

[8-man buffalo hunt - skinning a carcass], c1904. — historic photograph
[8-man buffalo hunt - skinning a carcass], c1904.. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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 rare historic photograph captures [8-man buffalo hunt - skinning a carcass] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This photograph shows a crew of eight men skinning a bison carcass, so the focus is on the work after the kill rather than the hunt itself. The record does not say where it was taken, and "Buffalo" in the title refers to the animal, not the city of Buffalo, New York. By about 1904, the market hunting of the 1870s and 1880s had reduced bison to a small surviving population, mostly in protected herds such as those in Yellowstone, so a scene like this is a late record of a practice that had nearly ended. The date and details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by P.H. Kellogg. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 660 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124306

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