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Lot 165
Sitting Bull
BARRY, David F. (1854-1936), photographer. Portrait of Sitting Bull.
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati

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$400 - 600
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Sitting Bull
BARRY, David F. (1854-1936), photographer. Portrait of Sitting Bull.

6 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. gelatin silver print, signed "Barry" in white ink and blindstamped "Copyright by D. F. Barry." An early 20th-century print, made at Barry's, Superior, Wisconsin studio from an original negative taken in the 1880s. Verso with multiple Culver Pictures, Inc. labels and various inscriptions.

Barry, known to his Native American customers as "The Little Shadow Catcher" made his name photographing personalities at frontier forts and towns, and operated a studio in Bismarck, Dakota Territory. He moved to Superior, Wisconsin, in 1890 and operated a studio there until his death, making prints from the negatives he had produced from the now vanished American frontier.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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