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Jan 18, 2025
This is an original signed / blind stamped D.F. Barry photograph of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill circa 1885 accompanied by a hand signed D.F. Barry letter from 1927 referring to Buffalo Bill from the ex-collection of the C.M. Russell Museum and John Kleinschmidt. The photograph is blind stamped in the bottom left hand corner 'Copyrighted D.F. Barry' and stamped around the frame. The photograph comes complete with a hand written letter from David Francis Barry explaining about a similar photograph sent to John Kleinschmidt of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill in 1927. The condition of this D.F. Barry photograph is well preserved with no obvious signs of damage to the photograph and shows only slight wear to the frame. The measurements of this framed photograph is 12 1/8" x 9 5/8" and the visible artwork measures 6 1/2" x 4 3/8". The collective weight of this photograph is 1lb 6oz. This original photograph, likely silver gelatin or albumen titled "Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill" was originally taken by David Notman, summer of 1885, from whom Barry acquired the negative and copyrighted the famous image. David Francis Barry (1854-1934) was one of the most noted photographers of the American Indian and U.S. Army participants in the Sioux War of 1876 and is attributed with some of the most recognizable surviving images from this period in the history of the American West. Barry first came to the west in the 1870’s to apprentice under photographer O.S. Goff, who worked as the photographer at Fort Abraham Lincoln. It was from this post the Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led his Seventh U.S. Cavalry division in May 1876 to the battle of the Little Bighorn in southwestern Montana. This is considered one of the largest collection of Barry photographs from one historic Montana family offered for public sale.
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