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Lot 197
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$480
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Lot Description
[NATIVE AMERICANS]. BAKER & JOHNSTON, photographers. Cabinet card of Apache prisoners.
Landscape-oriented cabinet card portrait featuring 5 Apache male subjects, with Baker & Johnston's Evanston, WY imprint on mount recto and ink inscription on verso reading "Mojave apaches at San Carlos 1888."
The featured men gaze directly into the camera, and a portion of a bow is visible to the lower edge of the portrait.
The San Carlos Reservation was established in 1871, and it soon became used as a forced relocation camp for various tribes including Apache, Mojave, and Yavapai, and Native prisoners of war. The San Carlos camp became known as "Hell's Forty Acres," and its deplorable conditions were well known.
The Michael Feorino Collection of Native American and Western Photography