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[European man in metal helmet firing on Indians while other Indians watch] – Historic Print

[European man in metal helmet firing on Indians while other Indians watch], [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph
[European man in metal helmet firing on Indians while other Indians watch], [between 1910 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A European figure in a metal helmet fires on Native people while others in the scene look on, a composition that freezes a moment of conquest into a single confrontation. The record describes this as a photograph of a painting, possibly by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, and places the subject in Spanish colonization of the 16th or 17th century. Ferris, an American painter who worked into the 1920s, made many romanticized canvases of frontier and early American history, so the picture shows how later generations imagined encounters between Europeans and Indigenous peoples. The glass negative dates from roughly 1910 to 1930, when the Detroit Publishing Company was reproducing paintings and scenes for wide circulation.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1930]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreConjectural works.Dry plate negatives.Paintings Reproductions.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Photograph of a painting, possibly by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris; possibly of Spanish colonization in 16th or 17th century. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsIndians of North America--War. Shooting.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 699 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77200

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