Chief Twoguns White Calf & Mike Gibbons – Historic Print
(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 Chief Twoguns White Calf & Mike Gibbons. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chief Twoguns White Calf & Mike Gibbons
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The pairing of Chief Two Guns White Calf with Mike Gibbons sets this portrait apart from the many Bain News Service pictures of single sitters. Two Guns White Calf was a Blackfeet (Piegan) leader from Montana whose public life drew wide attention in the early twentieth century, when Native American figures were often photographed for news and promotional use. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data on the Bain negatives, so the identity of Gibbons and the occasion for the meeting should be checked against other sources. The Bain Collection, built by a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers, is valuable for documenting how public figures were presented to the press during this period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,716 × 5,103 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37201 |
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