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Little Iron Horse [Crow Agency, Montana]? – Antique Print

Little Iron Horse [Crow Agency, Montana]?, c1905. — historic photograph
Little Iron Horse [Crow Agency, Montana]?, c1905.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Little Iron Horse [Crow Agency, Montana]?. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The title gives the name Little Iron Horse, and places the picture at Crow Agency, Montana, though the question mark marks that location as unverified, taken from a caption card. Horses were central to Crow life by the early twentieth century, shaping travel, hunting, and ceremony on the northern Plains, which helps explain why the image sits in a horse-themed collection. The photoprint dates to about 1905 and was copyrighted by Richard Throssel, an English-born photographer who worked among the Crow and sold his images widely. It is worth reading both as a portrait of a particular person and as a commercial image shaped by its maker's choices.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Richard Throssel. No. 6P008. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians; BI;
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,040 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158178

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