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[Chief Thunder Cloud strolling with son, Everlasting Cloud outside Chicago's Art Institute] – Historic Reproduction

[Chief Thunder Cloud strolling with son, Everlasting Cloud outside Chicago's Art Institute] — historic photograph
[Chief Thunder Cloud strolling with son, Everlasting Cloud outside Chicago's Art Institute]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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 Thunder Cloud strolling with son, Everlasting Cloud outside Chicago's Art Institute], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Chief Thunder Cloud strolling with son, Everlasting Cloud outside Chicago's Art Institute]

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Strolling outside the Art Institute of Chicago with his son, Everlasting Cloud, Chief Thunder Cloud is shown in a family moment rather than in costume or on a film set. Thunder Cloud, a Native American actor who appeared in many Hollywood Westerns, was a familiar public figure by the mid-1950s, and pictures like this one show how he presented himself off screen. The 1954 date places the photograph in a decade when Chicago's museums and Michigan Avenue drew steady crowds of visitors, and the image is also a record of how Native families, and Native children in particular, were pictured in mid-century city life.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1954
SubjectsThunder Cloud--Family. Everlasting Cloud. Indians of North America--Children--Illinois--Chicago--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,304 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194612

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