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[Horses somewhere in the western U.S.] / Photo by Osborn's Studio, Dickinson, N.D. – Vintage Photo Print

[Horses somewhere in the western U.S.] / Photo by Osborn's Studio, Dickinson, N.D. — historic photograph
[Horses somewhere in the western U.S.] / Photo by Osborn's Studio, Dickinson, N.D.. 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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A window into the past: [Horses somewhere in the western U.S.] / Photo by Osborn's Studio, Dickinson, N.D., 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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[Horses somewhere in the western U.S.] / Photo by Osborn's Studio, Dickinson, N.D.

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The record cannot pin down where this scene was taken, since the title says only "somewhere in the western U.S.," but the photographer was Osborn's Studio of Dickinson, North Dakota, a town on the edge of the state's western ranching country. Around 1955, cowboys still moved and gathered horse herds across open range in the region, and a studio portrait of that work reflects a period when ranch life was a common subject for local photographers. The picture is a useful record of how horse herding looked in the mid-1950s, even without a precise location.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[ca. 1955]
SubjectsHorse herding--1950-1960. Cowboys--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184361

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