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Pawnee Bill and ranch horse – Vintage Print

Pawnee Bill and ranch horse, c1908. — historic photograph
Pawnee Bill and ranch horse, c1908.. 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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Step back in time with Pawnee Bill and ranch horse, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Pawnee Bill, the showman Gordon W. Lillie, is pictured with a ranch horse around 1908, when he was known for blending Wild West entertainment with ranch life in the Pawnee country of Oklahoma. The old caption card lists subjects including Pawnee people, sod houses, and dugout dwellings, which suggests the photographer wanted to record the rough early architecture of the region alongside the horse. The attribution to J.B. Hainey and the date come from that unverified card, so the image is best read as a period document of frontier Oklahoma.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto [by?] J.B Hainey. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Ind. of N.A.--Pawnee--1908; Sod houses--Okla.--1908; Okla.--Views--1908; Dugout houses--Okla.--1908; Ind. of N.A.--Dwelligns; Dwellings; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,247 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141484

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