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[Indian, holding gun, on horse, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York] – Vintage Print

[Indian, holding gun, on horse, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York], [1901, printed in 1964] — historic photograph
[Indian, holding gun, on horse, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York], [1901, printed in 1964]. 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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An Indigenous man sits on horseback with a rifle across his body in this 1901 photograph taken at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Fairs of that era often staged displays of Indigenous people meant to evoke the frontier, and Buffalo's exposition, which ran from May to November 1901, was no exception. The photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston, was a prominent portrait and documentary photographer whose work is held by the Library of Congress. The Library's 1964 print preserves the image from the fair, and the posed setting invites questions about how the rider was presented to visitors.

Created / published[1901, printed in 1964]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Printed in 1964 by the L.C. Photoduplication Service.
SubjectsPan-American Exposition--(1901 :--Buffalo, N.Y.)--People. Indians of North America--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,275 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187942

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