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

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.
Man Posing in a Photographer's Studio, Wyoming Territory, 1884