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Lot 284
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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$1,320
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Lot Description
A group of 8 stereoviews of Plains Indians, incl. images by HAMILTON & HOYT, Sioux City, Iowa, ca 1870s.
8 stereoviews on cardstock mounts, including 4 examples with applied paper labels on verso with title and imprint of J.H. Hamilton or Hamilton & Hoyt, Sioux City, Iowa. Subjects include: Spotted Tails Son and Family. -- Red Dog, Sioux Chief. -- Sioux Chiefs. -- One Lost Medicine, Black Bull and Good Hawk, Sioux Indians.
Additional views include: Do-Me-Na, Daughter of Spotted Tail, as identified on verso, uncredited but attributed to J.H. Hamilton. -- No Flesh, Sioux Chief, as identified on verso, uncredited but attributed to J.H. Hamilton. -- Omaha Indian posed with furs, uncredited. -- Unidentified Native subject seated on a log, uncredited.
Together, 8 stereoviews, including scarcely encountered images taken by Hamilton & Hoyt, who operated studios in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory and Sioux City, Iowa, during the 1870s. Some accompanied by typed labels furnished by Native American collector and historian Dennis Lessard.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.



