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ALEXANDER GARDNER
(1821-1882)
Suite of 15 photographs of Sioux Delegation members
who visitedWashington, D.C.
Albumen prints, the
images measuring 5
1
/
4
x3
3
/
4
inches (13.7x9.5
cm.), the cabinet card mounts 6
1
/
2
x4 inches
(16.5x10.2 cm.), 4 with Gardner’s imprint and
12 with the sitter’s identification and date (the
remaining with just a date), in pencil, on mount
verso. 1872
[5,000/7,500]
Red Cloud * Last Medicine (Mancun-u-ke) *
Black Horse (Hey Sappa) * Skin of the Heart
(Shonton Yah) * Son of Red Thunder (Yellow
Eagle) * Red Lodge (Tipe sha) *Thunder Hawk
of Grand River Agency * Many Horses
(Heatonk) * Antelope, Head Chief of Grand
River Sioux * Black Cat Fish (Whoa sa sappa) *
Black Eye (Esta sappa) * RedThunder (Manken-
duta) * 3 without identification.
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SAMUEL KNEELAND.
The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California.
With 10 mounted albumen prints credited to John Payson Soule, the images measuring
approximately 3
1
/
2
x3
1
/
4
inches (8.9x8.3 cm.), and the reverse, with red printed cations and red rules;
also with 3 wood-engravings. Tall 4to, original plum gilt-decorated cloth, sunned and corners
bumped; with the original tissue guards; contents clean; all edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED
BY KNEELAND ANDWITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION.
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871
[1,200/1,800]
The photographs are credited to Soule, but it is now thought that he purchased the negatives from
a California photographer, possibly Eadweard Muybridge, to whose work these photographs have
a strong affinity. NYPL Checklist, 233.
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