Red Fish – Antique Print
![Red Fish, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a3538003e0e0-L.webp)
(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 Red Fish. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Red Fish
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Here the subject is a man identified only as "Red Fish," a name that appears in the title rather than in any dated or verified caption. The photograph was made by Frank B. Fiske, a photographer who worked for many years at Fort Yates on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, where he portrayed Lakota residents for a wide audience. Portraits like this one were often sold as souvenirs or circulated as ethnographic records, so the sitter's dress, pose, and setting reflect how photographers and viewers of that era framed Native people. The caption card's use of the term "Indians" is a reminder of those assumptions, and the lack of a date leaves the exact year of the sitting uncertain.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Frank B. Fiske. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Indians. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158161 |
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