5192
Group of Native American Photographs, Tucson, Az.
Sold
$175
Timed Auction
Railroad Crossing Discovery Auction: Closing January 6th, 2025
Category
Description
Late 19th century, including a cabinet card identified as "An Apache Family in Winter 76," in the negative, uncredited, 6 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.; two cabinet cards with credits of Buehman & Hartwell (in business 1881-'89) one depicting an Apache woman with infant on her back, the other showing Gen. Nelson Miles's sword; an uncredited image of Native American women on a riverbank near Tucson, with interesting narrative on back; a loose cyanotype of several Zuni(?) men and women holding ollas, standing among eroded hoodoos, 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; and three duplicate salt and albumin prints of Apache wickiup shelters; and three other loose prints.
Condition
As is, with various faults and production flaws
Provenance
From the Estate of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III, Baltimore, Md. and the Collection of Brian Jackson, Baltimore. The Truesdells were early residents of Tucson
