RANDALL, A. Frank (1854-1916), photographer. Boudoir photograph of Chief Chihuahua posed with a rifle, period notation in lower margin, verso with A.F. Randall's purple ink stamp. Chihuahua, or Kla-esch, was an able leader of the renegade Apache, fighting through much of the 1880s. Surrendering to General George Crook in March 1886, he was subsequently imprisoned at Fort Marion, FL, and later at Fort Sill, OK, where he died in 1901.

A. Frank Randall (1854-1916) operated out of Wilcox, AZ as an itinerant photographer beginning around 1883. Randall is known for his photographs of the Apache, Navajo, and Hopi Indians of the southwest. From 1883 to 1885, Randall produced a series of about 100 boudoir card portraits of Indians around Fort Apache. Ben Wittick distributed many of these pictures with his name printed in the negative resulting in confusion over the attribution of these images.

[With:] WITTICK, Ben (1845-1903), photographer/publisher. Boudoir photograph of "Gay-a-Tenito & Wife, Typical Navajos, New Mexico," as identified in period ink on mount verso. Credited to Wittick in the negative and Wittick & Son, Albuquerque, NM, on verso.

Together, 2 boudoir photographs.