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Lot 368
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
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Live / Cincinnati
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CHOATE, John N. (1848-1902), photographer. Four cabinet cards of identified Native American chiefs, incl. Ouray and American Horse. Ca 1879-1880.
4 cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts, each with J.N. Choate's Carlisle, PA backmark, including the following studio portraits, as identified on mount recto or verso: "Ouray and Wife Chipeta / Utes." -- "American Horse." -- "Son of the Star with Sioux scalp on a pole which he himself took." -- "Poor Wolf From Ft. Berthold." -- Together, 4 cabinet photographs.
Provenance: Cowan's, American History, 20 June 2012, Lot 189 and 190.
John N. Choate (1848-1902) began a long photographic career at Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1879 when the famous Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded. The school's superintendent, Richard Henry Pratt, commissioned Choate to take these "before and after" portraits to document the progress his school was making in "civilizing" the students. The photographs were distributed widely, to Native American reservations to recruit new students, and to United States officials and wealthy donors to encourage their support.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.