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Chief American Horse – Vintage Wall Art

Chief American Horse, c1900. — historic photograph
Chief American Horse, c1900.. 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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Step back in time with Chief American Horse, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Chief American Horse

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Here the sitter is Chief American Horse, a Teton Dakota leader whose record gives his dates as 1840 to 1908, so this is a portrait of a man, though the picture hangs among the horse prints. By 1900 many Plains leaders had lived on reservations for decades, and studio portraits of them circulated widely among the public and in print. This one was registered for copyright by J.A. Anderson, whose name and deposit number, 934, are printed in the record, which is why the Library of Congress holds it today.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900.
NotesD24370 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.A. Anderson. No. 934.
SubjectsAmerican Horse,--Dakota Chief,--1840-1908. Tribal chiefs--United States--1900. Teton Indians--1900. Indians of North America--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,264 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179054

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