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Indians gambling outdoors, seated on ground and playing cards, Ely, Nevada: Lucky at cards – Antique Print

Indians gambling outdoors, seated on ground and playing cards, Ely, Nevada: Lucky at cards, ca1910. — historic photograph
Indians gambling outdoors, seated on ground and playing cards, Ely, Nevada: Lucky at cards, ca1910.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures Indians gambling outdoors, seated on ground and playing cards, Ely, Nevada: Lucky at cards in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Indians gambling outdoors, seated on ground and playing cards, Ely, Nevada: Lucky at cards

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Ely, the White Pine County seat in eastern Nevada, grew around copper mining and the railroad, and this outdoor scene of men seated on the ground over a card game was recorded there around 1910. The caption, "Lucky at cards," frames the moment as a light, colorful incident, though the record gives no names or details about the players. Card games had spread widely among Indigenous communities in the Great Basin by this time. Photographs like this one often reflect the outsider's gaze as much as the scene itself, so the composition is worth reading with that in mind.

Created / publishedca1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Nevada--Ely; Indians of North America--Games; Indians of North America--Nevada--ca.1910; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 988 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139255

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