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Lot 372
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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$3,600
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Lot Description
ANDERSON, J.A. (1869-1948), photographer. Unbound album containing 22 photographs of Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, ca 1890s.
22 albumen photographs, each 4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in., mounted recto/verso on 11 unbound album pages, each 6 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. Most photographs numbered, captioned, and credited to Anderson in the negative.
Scenes include "Scalp Dance" (2). -- "Beef issue, Indians butchering." -- "Sioux Indians, / Getting Their Beef Rations." -- "Indian Trivoi [sic]." -- "Picket Pin and Family." -- "Slaughter & Issue House." -- "Sioux Indians." -- "Indians Butchering a Steer." -- "Indian Celebration." -- "Transportation in the Far West." -- "Badlands from Pass Creek." -- "Cattle to be Issued." -- "Killing Cattle for Indian issue." -- "Cow Boys Throwing Steer."-- "Cow Boys Branding a Steer." -- "Sioux Indian Dance House." -- And 5 others.
Provenance: Cowan's Auctions, American Historical Ephemera and Photography, 26 June 2020, Lot 350.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.