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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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Cabinet card of Red Cloud, Young Spotted Tail, and Charles P. Jordan. Ca 1882.


Cabinet card featuring oval portrait of Lakota Chiefs Red Cloud (seated) and Young Spotted Tail (standing), with frontiersman Charles P. Jordan (seated). Ink inscription to mount recto provides identities of the sitters along with caption, "Red Clouds 'War Attitude.'" Uncredited.

Published in Goodyear III, Frank H. Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief.

Here, Young Spotted Tail stands at center, assuming the position of his assassinated father, Spotted Tail. Charles P. Jordan was a well-known frontiersman. He became a licensed Indian trader and ran a trading post on the Rosebud Reservation. He maintained a long friendship with Red Cloud, a relationship solidified when he married Red Cloud's niece, Julia Walks First (Goodyear, pp. 62-65).

The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

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