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Lot 483

Sale 1192 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots 1-294
Jun 15, 2023 10:00AM ET
Lots 295-567
Jun 16, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$1,000 - 1,500
Price Realized
$1,134
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[NATIVE AMERICANS]. HILEMAN, Tomar J. (1882-1945), photographer. Two Guns White Calf. [Kalispell, Montana, ca 1911]. Photograph originally displayed at Hileman's studio.

12 13/16 x 16 5/8 in. silver gelatin print on cardstock mount (each corner with pinholes/separation/light loss, toning to margins; mount with some small separations, creasing, and dampstaining). Image with Hileman blindstamp to lower right corner. Numbered "9524" and subject identified "Two Guns White Calf" on mount recto and verso. Provenance: Acquired in 1990 from the widow of Blackfoot Chief Big Spring, to whom Hileman gave the photograph (consignor note). 

Consignor relates that Chief Big Spring was given several photographs when Hileman closed his studio ca 1925. Apparently the photograph featured here was one of many displayed on the walls of Hileman's Kalispell, MT studio so that interested parties could order copies using the numbers and names boldly displayed on the gray mounts.

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