Sitting Bull – Antique Wall Art
(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 historic photograph of Sitting Bull brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sitting Bull
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Here the sitter is Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader, and the caption card credits this photoprint to D.F. Barry of Bismarck, then the capital of Dakota Territory. Sitting Bull had surrendered in 1881 and spent the following years under federal supervision at Standing Rock, and portraits like this one circulated widely in the 1880s as he became one of the best-known Native leaders of the period. The date and attribution come from an unverified caption card, so they are worth checking against other sources. He was killed in December 1890 during an attempt to arrest him at Standing Rock.
| Created / published | c1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by D.F. Barry, Bismark, Dak. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,001 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160131 |
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