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Three Indians on horseback, ca. 1876 – Vintage Print

Three Indians on horseback, ca. 1876, [ca. 1876] — historic photograph
Three Indians on horseback, ca. 1876, [ca. 1876]. 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: Three Indians on horseback, ca. 1876, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Three Indians on horseback, ca. 1876

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Three riders on horseback are the focus of this stereograph, made in Yankton, the Dakota Territory town that served as the territorial capital through the 1870s. S.J. Morrow's card was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, where two slightly offset photographs blend into one image with depth. Horses were central to life on the Plains by the 1870s, so the riders and their mounts offer a window onto the period, though the original caption's tribal label is unverified and should be read with caution.

Created / published[ca. 1876]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo by S.J. Morrow, Yankton, Dakota Territories. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Indians--On horseback; Indian tribes--Central; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 899 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132974

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