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Lot 285

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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$800 - 1,200
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$1,560
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A group of 8 stereoviews of Plains Indians, incl. images by HAMILTON & HOYT, Sioux City, Iowa, ca 1870s. 


8 stereoviews on cardstock mounts, including 3 examples with applied paper labels on verso with title and imprint of Hamilton & Hoyt, Sioux City, Iowa. Subjects include: Big Head and Bears Rib, Sioux Chiefs. Both chiefs were members of the Delegation of 1872. -- Pipe Dance, Omaha Indians. -- Indian Dirt Lodge.

Additional views include: No Flesh, Sioux Chief, uncredited. -- Bear Skin and Walk in the Evening, Winnebago Warriors, uncredited but attributed to various photographers including Hamilton & Hoyt. -- Possibly Left Hand, Yankton, or Chief Iron Nation, Lower Brule, uncredited but attributed to Hamilton & Hoyt. -- Mon-choo-he, Omaha, as identified on verso, uncredited. -- Unidentified Omaha Indian seated on a log, imprint of Verlag v. S.P. Christmann, Berlin.

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. Two accompanied by typed labels furnished by Native American collector and historian Dennis Lessard.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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