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Edward H. Boos Photographs

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Native Americana Start Price:2,000.00 USD Estimated At:4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD
Edward H. Boos Photographs
Very rare album collection of 45 early historic photos (40 attached to pages in the album, 5 loose) taken by Boos, a photographer from Missoula, Montana, documenting mostly the Flathead Indians in St. Ignatius, Montana just before the turn of the century. Many of the photos are labeled and others can be identified through the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana. The photos are all in good or very good condition, some showing some handling. The ones attached in the album are approximately 6-1/2" x 4". The 20 cardboard pages are not attached in the binding of the album anymore.

Provenances

This book was given to Grace DeMers (Yost) in 1900 and Boos signed and illustrated the inside cover with Indian Names (?) or the album’s title, “Skal-I-Hu Skul-Ki-Ee” by Skul-Ki-Im, (Edward H. Boos) 1900.” The book is signed, “To Grace E. DeMers from Edward H. Boos 3/9/00.”

In 1959, DeMers gave the book to her artist friend and signed it then, “To Florence with all love and my wish to aid in her splendid paintings of our Indians – Grace DeMers Yost, March 16, 1959.”