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Lot 283

Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$610
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[NATIVE AMERICANS] BRETZ, George. Cabinet card of armed Comanche Indian. Ft. Sill, Oklahoma Terr.


Cabinet photograph of a Comanche Indian standing in a studio setting with a rifle in hand, on cardstock mount with imprint of Bretz, Ft. Sill, O.T. in lower margin.

Little is known about George Bretz apart from his photographs of American Indians at Fort Sill in Oklahoma Territory, taken during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Among his most notable photographs are those of Apache prisoners of war being held at Fort Sill, including Geronimo, in 1894.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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