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Spotted Horse – Antique Wall Art

Spotted Horse, c1900. — historic photograph
Spotted 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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Spotted Horse" is the title given to this c1900 photoprint, which the record describes as copyrighted by the firm Heyn and Matzen under number 2093. The title could refer to a horse or to a person, and the caption card's indexing terms point to Indigenous subjects, but the record notes that these details are unverified. Around 1900, commercial studios produced and copyrighted photoprints like this one for a wide public market, so the image reflects both the photographic methods of the period and the tastes of the buyers who collected them. Visitors interested in the subject should check the sitter's identity against other sources before drawing conclusions from the title alone.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Heyn and Matzen. No. 2093. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI (Indians); Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,225 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148899

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