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[Shiffert Photo postcard portraits of Native Americans].
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Title:

[Shiffert Photo postcard portraits of Native Americans]

Creator/Contributor:

Shiffert Photo, creator, photographer.

Abstract:

Studio portrait photographs, commercially issued in postcard format, of Native Americans. Identified individuals and groups include American Eagle and squaw, Man Going Up Hill, Kiowa woman, Walking Bear, Miss Romeio, Cheyenne Indians, Red Bird, Cow Woman, Little Calf and baby, Howling Crow, Miss Otter Bee, Mrs. Eagle Nest and baby, Mrs. Little Hawk, Clara Flying Man, Mrs. Horse Voice, Nellie Morrison, Mrs. Tobacco, Mrs. Lame Bull, Little Man, Miss Lone Lodge, Red Elk, Cheyenne family, Miss Left Hand, Plain Bear, Miss Sage, Miss Lizzie Tasco, girl wearing buckskin shell dress, Miss Daisy Bent, Miss Turkey Legs, Chief Turkey Legs, Mrs. Old Woman and American Horse.

Date:

1920 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ok
Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Portraits
Peuples autochtones -- Oklahoma -- Portraits
Indians of North America
Oklahoma

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer's name written in negative of each print: "Shiffert Photo, El Reno, OK."
Images include subjects' names written in negative.
Purchase ; From Michael Maslan ; 2020.
Native American photograph postcards, BANC PIC 2020.086, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Postcard.
Portrait.
portraits.
Postcards.
Portraits.
Postcards.
Portraits.
Cartes postales.
Portraits.

Physical Description:

photoprint
38 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

Language:

English

Origin:

California