4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. silver gelatin photograph (lightened a bit, a few ink spots, some fading of ink inscription), on 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. mount (losses at corners, a few cracks, one with adhesive repair to verso). Hemment Studios imprint blindstamped to mount recto, ink stamp to mount verso. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CODY to lower photograph edge and mount: "To Leonard Cody Bell / W.F. Cody / 'Buffalo Bill' / 1907."  

Showing Buffalo Bill mounted on horseback with fancy show tack, originally taken in Austria but later sold by Hemment Studios, Fulton St., New York, as indicated by blindstamp. Leonard Cody Bell was the son of William A. Bell, the owner of the company that did the Wild West's printing. The photograph was signed in 1907, which is the first season the show returned from four years touring and wintering in Europe. The young Bell served in the Wild West as a bugle boy and then performer before the show went bankrupt in 1912.