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Two Guns White Calf, the Blackfeet Indian Chief whose profile is on the Buffalo nickel – Vintage Print

Two Guns White Calf, the Blackfeet Indian Chief whose profile is on the Buffalo nickel — historic photograph
Two Guns White Calf, the Blackfeet Indian Chief whose profile is on the Buffalo nickel. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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A window into the past: Two Guns White Calf, the Blackfeet Indian Chief whose profile is on the Buffalo nickel, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Two Guns White Calf, a Blackfeet chief from Montana, is the man whose profile became the portrait on the Buffalo nickel, the coin designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser and minted from 1913 to 1938. Fraser chose him as a model, and the coin's name refers to the bison on its reverse rather than to the city of Buffalo. This stereograph, issued by the Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, around 1929, was one of many cards the firm sold for viewing through a stereoscope, which gave the scene a sense of depth. Its caption ties the chief's likeness to a coin many Americans carried daily.

Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Co., c1929.
SubjectsJ03052 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: JK; Indian tribes--S-; Money; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,383 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126959

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