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Original Ralph Doubleday Leo Kramer Rodeo Photo

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Original Ralph Doubleday Leo Kramer Rodeo Photo
For your consideration is an original Ralph Doubleday Leo Kramer rodeo photograph from the Western Bar in Billings, Montana. Ralph Russell Doubleday was a prominent rodeo photographer from 1910-1952. He was born on July 4, 1881, in Jackson County, Iowa, and after his family moved to Sycamore, Illinois, in 1900, he became interested in photographing local events. In August 1910, he traveled to the Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and photographed his first rodeo. He captured Gus Nylen being thrown from bucking horse Teddy Roosevelt, and that image is considered to be the first shot of a man being thrown from a horse at a rodeo. Due to the success of selling prints and postcards of his photographs, Doubleday decided to make a career from rodeo photography. He shot his last event in 1952 and died on June 30, 1958. This original photograph depicts Leo Kramer on a horse called Murphy. This wonderful piece came out of the Western Bar in Billings, Montana. The photograph is in a rustic wooded frame measuring 42 ¾” x 31”. The visible portion of the photograph measures 25 ½” x 23 ½”.