[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Dakota Territory album containing CDVs and cabinet cards of soldiers, citizens, and landmarks incl. Fort Bennett by R.L. Kelly, George W. Scott, and J.C.H. Grabill.

8vo. velvet album (sunning to spine and perimeter, front hinge broken). Album contains 19 photographs, including 17 cabinet cards, 4 x 5 5/8 in., or smaller, on cardstock mounts, the majority credited to western photographers, mostly from the Dakota Territory. Condition generally good, with toning, fading, and some soiling to images, as well as some corner and edge wear to mounts.

Contents include: 7 photographs credited to R.L. Kelly, Pierre, Dakota Territory, highlighted by a studio portrait of a mustachioed man wearing a bib shirt with fringed sleeves and tall boots. -- 3 outdoor photographs capturing Fort Bennett, including a distant view of the fort, a structure presumably located at or near the fort, and a young woman on horseback at the fort. -- 2 studio portraits of an unknown man and couple. -- 4 studio portraits by George W. Scott, Deadwood, Dakota Territory, including a standing cavalryman. -- Shoulder-length portrait of a man in military-style coat by E.E. Henry, Leavenworth, Kansas. Possibly signed on verso, "J. Ronayne."

With additional cabinet card portraits of civilians by the following photographers: J.J. Mead, Deadwood, Dakota Territory. -- J.C.H. Grabill, Sturgis, Dakota Territory. -- Excelsior Studios, Deadwood and Lead City, Dakota Territory. -- M.H. Strong, Napa, California. -- Bennett & Slattery, San Francisco, California. -- Neville, Columbus, Ohio.

Album also contains a CDV of a bespectacled and bearded gent wearing a fur cap by O.S. Goff, Fort Meade, Dakota. 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. CDV on cardstock mount (some soiling; some edge and corner wear to mount). -- 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. tintype of a confident gentleman standing in a studio, housed in paper sleeve (image dark).