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MS 046 - Glenbow Photograph Album Collection, 1895-1905

By Elizabeth Bell, 2013

Collection Overview

Title: MS 046 - Glenbow Photograph Album Collection, 1895-1905

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Date Acquired: 10/24/1985

Languages: English [eng]

Abstract

Photograph album containing approximately sixty black-and-white and sepia photographs (albumin prints) taken in Montana around 1900.  It includes images of soldiers, military camps, forts, the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Lame Deer (on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, previously named the Tongue River Reservation), the Cheyenne people, and Western life in general.  The album is 28.5 x 18.2 cm with cardboard pages and black covers with leather corners.  “Photographs” appears on the front cover in fancy gold lettering.  The prints are pasted onto the pages, often more than one to a page, and many are accompanied by captions hand-written in pencil directly in the album.  A typed collection inventory provides more information about some of the photographs; however, it is unknown who wrote it and when.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions:

McCracken Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials. Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation or publication. Contact McCracken Research Library for more information.

Album in very delicate condition.  Held together with tape, missing spine, leather on covers disintegrating. May be viewed under special conditions only.

Acquisition Source: Francois Tremblay

Acquisition Method: Gift

Related Publications: For additional publications about Photography of the West, please search the McCracken Research Library’s Catalog at:  http://wyld.state.wy.us/bbhc/

Preferred Citation: Glenbow Photograph Album Collection, MS 46, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West.


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