Starting supper, Flathead Reservation – Historic Reproduction
(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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Starting supper, Flathead Reservation comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Starting supper, Flathead Reservation
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Set on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, this stereograph shows Native women preparing the evening meal at camp, a domestic moment that studio portraits seldom recorded. The card was copyrighted by N.A. Forsyth of Butte, Montana, and its c1908 date falls within the years when stereo views were a popular parlor entertainment. Commercial photographers of the period often marketed scenes like this as glimpses of everyday life, so the staging deserves a second look. The reservation was home to the Salish and Kootenai peoples, whose communities had been reshaped by treaty and land policy.
| Created / published | c1908 July 29. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver. |
| Subjects | H113985 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by N.A. Forsyth, Butte, Mont. Title from item. Caption card tracings: Indian tribes--Flathead; Indians--Camps; Indians--Reservations; Photog. Index; Indians--Women; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 802 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132970 |
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