Man Posing in a Photographer's Studio, Wyoming Territory, 1884
THF124593 / Man Posing in a Photographer's Studio, Wyoming Territory, 1884
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Artifact Overview
George and Thomas Dalgleish owned a photography studio in the Wyoming Territory in the 1880s. The brothers traveled the territory documenting the region's people, towns and activities. The title on the photograph does not refer to the infamous outlaw who died in a shootout in 1881. A notation on another photograph refers to the man as a hunter and trapper and friend of the photographer.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1884
Creators
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
30.803.16
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of George Dalgleish.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.563 in
Width: 4.375 in
Inscriptions
caption on bottom of photograph:
Billy The Kid And His Friend Wyo. Ter. 188[?] Dalgleish Photo.
handwritten on back of photograph:
Hunter and Traper in the Bighornes. / a Friend of mine while I was in Sheridan, in 1884. Sheridan at that time had a population of 299, but a cow boy had got a wife home from the Heart in Hand, in Chicago. Expected an increase in the family so we made the count 300.
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