Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, 1885 – Antique 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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Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, 1885 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, 1885
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Two men who were both famous in 1885 meet in this portrait: Buffalo Bill Cody, the scout and showman, and Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader who had led resistance at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. The picture was taken at the William Notman studio in Montreal in August 1885, while Cody's Wild West show was touring Canada, and Sitting Bull had joined the troupe that season. The print was later copyrighted by D.F. Barry in June 1897, more than a decade after the sitting, which accounts for the later date in its record.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print . |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Group portraits 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 5349C2 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph originally taken by William Notman studios, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, August 1885. Later copyrighted by D.F. Barry in June 1897. |
| Subjects | Buffalo Bill,--1846-1917. Sitting Bull,--1831-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,088 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114262 |
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