The Lucky buffalo hunter – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Lucky buffalo hunter. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Lucky buffalo hunter
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The Lucky buffalo hunter" shows a hunter beside a dead bison, and its subject headings place the scene within the American slaughter of the animal during the 1890s. By then the great herds that once covered the Plains had been cut to a small remnant, mostly by market and sport hunting in the 1870s and 1880s, so a photograph of a kill from this period looks back on a vanished abundance. St. Paul publisher T.W. Ingersoll issued the card around 1897 or 1898 as a stereograph, meant to be viewed through a hand stereoscope at home. Its jaunty title sits uneasily beside the animal's fate.
| Created / published | St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A. : T.W. Ingersoll, publisher, 1897,c1898. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 15265 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3061. |
| Subjects | Bison hunting--United States--1890-1900. Dead animals--United States--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,272 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182279 |
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