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Chief American Horse – Vintage Print

Chief American Horse, [c1900]. — historic photograph
Chief American Horse, [c1900].. 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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A window into the past: Chief American Horse, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The sitter is identified in the record as Chief American Horse, an Oglala Lakota leader, and the photograph carries the Heyn and Matzen copyright mark and the number 695 from the studio's series. Studio portraits like this one were popular around 1900, when many Native leaders were photographed in traditional dress for commercial sale and for ethnographic collections. The caption details come from an old card and have not been independently verified, so the identification and date of [c1900] should be read as provisional. Horses were central to Plains life and to the names and status of Lakota leaders, which gives this portrait a link to the board's theme.

Created / published[c1900].
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsCopyright by Heyn and Matzen. Photo no. 695. Oglala Sioux Chief. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians of North America--Oglala; BI (Indians); Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139517

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