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Lot 232
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
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Oct 24, 2025
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GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882), photographer. CDV of the Sauk and Fox delegation. Washington, DC: Philip & Solomons, February 1867.
CDV on cardstock mount with Gardner's Washington, DC imprint on verso. Variant of a CDV illustrated in Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner by D. Mark Katz (p. 236). Taken in Washington, DC, in February 1867, this rare photograph of the Sauk and Fox delegation represents one of Gardner's first commissions to photograph Indian delegations that were visiting the capital with great frequency (see Katz, p. 235 for more information).
Provenance: Cowan's, Historic Americana, 9 June 2005, Lot 1188.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography