[Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana] – Antique Wall Art
![[Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana], 1890 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f1e2ab1648f3-L.webp)
(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 [Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana]
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Soldiers of the 25th Infantry posed in buffalo robes at Fort Keogh, Montana, a detail that sets this group apart from more formal regimental portraits. The 25th was one of the four all-Black regiments created after the Civil War, and its men were known as Buffalo Soldiers, a name that later came to describe the Black cavalry and infantry units of the postwar army. Fort Keogh, near the Yellowstone River, was a frontier post where such soldiers guarded the region during the 1880s and 1890s. The verso identifies the photographer as Chr. Barthelmess of Fort Keogh, so the picture was made locally rather than in a city studio.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Cabinet photographs 1890.Gelatin silver prints 1890.Group portraits 1890.Portrait photographs 1890. |
| Notes | Gladstone collection (Library of Congress). On verso: Chr. Barthelmess, photographer, Fort Keogh, Montana. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:113.274 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Military service--1890. Military personnel--Montana--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,725 × 3,787 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219762 |
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