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[Young Man Afraid of His Horses, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding hat] / J.N. Choate, Carlisle, Pa. – Vintage Photo Print

[Young Man Afraid of His Horses, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding hat] / J.N. Choate, Carlisle, Pa., c1891. — historic photograph
[Young Man Afraid of His Horses, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding hat] / J.N. Choate, Carlisle, Pa., 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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[Young Man Afraid of His Horses, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding hat] / J.N. Choate, Carlisle, Pa. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Young Man Afraid of His Horses, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding hat] / J.N. Choate, Carlisle, Pa.

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The sitter is Young Man Afraid of His Horses, an Oglala Lakota man whose name, like many Lakota names, was tied to his family's standing on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. J.N. Choate made this cabinet card in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, home of the federal Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which drew students and visitors from many tribes around 1891. The seated, half-length pose with hat in hand follows the formal studio conventions of the period. The name's reference to horses reflects the central role horses played in Lakota life, though the picture shows only the man.

Created / publishedc1891.
Medium1 photographic print on cabinet card.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Cabinet photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsYoung Man Afraid of His Horses. Indians of North America--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184470

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