Western and Historical Americana

portrait of Quanah Parker, the famed Comanche chief, and one of his seven wives, Tonacy identified in pencil on verso as Tunice, with Sink's Ver...

with a commanding View in the Witchita Mts. 2.0 miles west of Fort Sill, I.T., the inscription at bottom of mount. Lacking the photographer's im...

lot of 10, all with Drake's Ponca City, Oklahoma Territory imprint on mount below image. Images include portraits of young women wrapped in blan...

lot of 3, all titled in negative and with Lenny and Sawyers' Purcell, Indian Territory imprint below image, portraits include Parthayne - Otoe; ...

verso with C.C. Stotz, El Reno, O.T. stamp, and titled in negative. During the 1880s and early 1890s, as part of the rations owed by treaty to the

ca. 1860s, each with his Larimer St. backmark. Includes a close view portrait of an Indian wearing a .44-40 cartridge belt; another of four braves, on

ca 1860s, with his Denver backmark. A fine early image of this Ute holding a Remington Army revolver, the butt of another is visible at his waist.&#...

ca 1860s, with his Larimer St. backmark, with inked inscription on verso Navajoe Manuelito Jr. 14 years old. He holds a bow, and the strap of a

lot of three, including C.R. Savage CDV of two Ute Men, the man on the left carries a Remington 1863 model, 44 caliber percussion revolver; a Kirby ...

view of Ute Chief, Se-go-witts and his bride, from C.R. Savage's Utah series, with photographer's Salt Lake City, Utah imprint on verso....

albumen photograph, 5.5" x 7.25", mounted on larger board. According to information supplied by the consignor, this image was taken by Dr....

verso includes Crockwell's stamp, Salt Lake City, Utah. The seated man has tied up the cuffs of his trousers, to more easily be able to put on h...

with Buehman's 314-316 Congress St. address. (Mautz (1997:35) indicates Buehman worked at this address ca 1883-1884). This image appears to have...

lot of five, including the following Andrew Miller cabinet cards: Apache Scouts, title in the negative lower right, ca 1886; Three Apache Brothers, ti

albumen; titled in negative; from the Santa Fe Route series and with J.L. Clinton's Colorado Springs studio backmark.  Property of the We...

albumen; titled in negative Chincohua/ Apache Prince; from the Pikes Peak Route series and with J.L. Clinton's Colorado Springs studio backmark....

studio portrait of Na-buash-i-ta Apache Medicine Man, as identified in the negative, with Wittick Photo written in negative as well as G.B. Wittick&...

unmounted photograph, 7.25" x 4.5", ca 1883. Lacking a maker's imprint but known to be Randall's work. Title appears as a pencil i...

lot of 15; with seven carrying the Santa Fe Route, backmark, two with Pike's Peek Route, one W.H. Wyman's Curiosity Store, two on D.B. Chase...

a portrait with the manuscript title Gajumpe / The last Governor of the old Pecos Pueblo / No. 392, with two Henry Brown, Santa Fe, N.M stamps on vers

verso includes printed advertisement as well as the history of Santa Fe, its climate, points of interest, etc.  Condition: EXC.

lot of 53 silver gelatin photographs from the files of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland; includes 33 images of a Navajo family, following their daily activ

ca 1883-84, with his Congress Street, Tucson, A.T. backmark; stamped title on mount recto.  Condition:

signed Curtis L.A. lower right; evocative image of three Apache women and a man on horseback, the wind starting to roll in; in original arts and craft

with Curtis' 1904 blindstamp and copyright in lower left corner, signed lower right; verso with printed label of prose by poet Ella Higginson (1...

silver gelatin border print, signed in lower right and housed in a batwing frame; verso with pasted title label, Curtis' Seattle, Washington stu...

silver gelatin, with Curtis' 1908 copyright blindstamp in lower left and signed lower right; 8" x 5.5" image mounted onto larger 13&qu...

also titled Ready for the Charge; silver gelatin photograph, signed lower right, 5" x 2.5" image mounted on larger 7" x 4" card ...

Ryan, Marah Ellis. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. Illustrated by Edward Curtis. 8vo, half leather, gilt illustration front, five bands o

lot of 22 platinum photographs each with credit, copyright, date, title and number in negative. All but three photographs framed, unframed images with

oversized folio, bound in buckskin, with Rinehart's North American Indians carved into front cover, with additional decoration of a war club and...

lot of two large format silver gelatin photographs by T. Harmon Parkhurst, including a unique view of the San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico,

silver gelatin print of two men offering their prayer; verso with manuscript title Prayer to the Thunder Bird/ Peagin Indians/ Montana/ Photo by

silver gelatin, sepia-toned, with applied color, titled in negative in lower left and signed with copyright in lower right; collotype mounted on a dec

lot of four silver gelatin photographs including the following: Chief Cut Finger - Arapaho, Okla.; Hoopa, Cal., Ben Jahigan; Chief Tin-Tin Meet-sa, Um

lot of 14, on regular size yellow and orange mounts, from the Central Pacific Railroad, California series and with Hart's Sacramento backmark; s...

a group of 25 cabinet sized views by Jackson (10); Gurnsey (6); Thurlow, Morrison and Chamberlain (2 each); Nims (1); and three unidentified. Includes

a group of 15 regular and cabinet-sized views, by various makers, including Spooner, Watkins, Muybridge, Reilly, and others. Includes two fine views o

lot of 35 views of the Western United States, including the following: 22 by Carleton Watkins from his series Watkins' Pacific Coast, primarily ...

lot of 9, ca 1870-1880s, all cabinet sized. Includes 5 on yellow mounts by Henry Brown with numbered manuscript titles (No's 1, 42, 43, 55, 108)...

a colorful print advertising the Peter Schuttler Company Chicago, depicting a line of Old Reliable Schuttler Wagons traveling along Ute Pass, Colorado

nearly half plate sized, 3.5" x 4.75". A fine portrait of this Westerner, armed with a rifle, pistol and bowie knife. A skinned raccoon li...

ca 1880, with imprint of A.J. Dusseau on verso. He leans on a Hopkins and Allen single shot shotgun.  Condition:

known as Captain of the Roundup, Nollet Ranch, Mingusville, later Wibaux, Montana Territory. With F.J. Haynes St. Paul, Minnesota studio imprint on ve

of Nollet Ranch, Mingusville, later Wibaux, Montana Territory. With F.J. Haynes St. Paul, Minnesota studio imprint on verso. See Tilden, Freeman, Foll

lot of 18 western photographs by T.W. Ingersoll, most featuring the photographer's St. Paul, Minnesota imprint on recto or verso, with some dupl...

a silver gelatin photograph by Charles Belden entitled Sheep Drinking From Upper Sunshine Reservoir on Pitchfork Ranch, ca 1930s, with Belden's ...

a large format collotype by L.A. Huffman with the full title being Throwing Rangers to the Round-Up, Big Dry Mont., written at lower left, signed and

a large format photogravure of a farmer using a horse-drawn plow to work his fields, with his dog by his side, titled The Honyocker and signed by L.A.

with L.A. Huffman - Miles City, Mont. signature at bottom right corner, title printed at bottom center. 8" x 14", not mounted.  Cond...