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William F. \"Buffalo Bill\" Cody 3 photographs related to Buffalo Bill\'s Wild West, incl. \"Sioux Princess\" Julie Nelson. [With:] Photograph of Charlie Russell and friend.
Estimate: $500-$700
Sold
$650
Live Auction
Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Location
Cincinnati
Description

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
3 photographs related to Buffalo Bill's Wild West, incl. "Sioux Princess" Julie Nelson. [With:] Photograph of Charlie Russell and friend.


Julie Nelson, Sioux Princess, Buffalo Bill's Wild West. New York: Anderson, n.d. Cabinet photograph on cardstock mount with title and studio imprint in lower margin. Mount verso with additional studio imprint, ink stamps, and a Culver Pictures, Inc. sticker. Nelson performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows as a "Princess of the Sioux Nation." -- Prince of Monaco & Col Cody. 5 x 7 in. silver gelatin photograph of Cody with rifle in hand, conversing with the Prince of Monaco, Albert I, during his visit to Cody, Wyoming, in the fall of 1913. Titled in negative, verso with Culver Service ink stamps and sticker. -- Studio portrait of Cody later taken later in life. Chicago: Moffett, 1911. 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. silver gelatin photograph, credited to Moffett in the negative, with Culver Pictures, Inc. stickers on verso.

[With:] Photograph of famed cowboy artist Charlie M. Russell and his friend, Cornelius "Con" Price standing in front of the log cabin studio in Great Falls, Montana, ca early 1900s. 5 x 7 in. print with manuscript notation on verso, including details about Price, who "began life as a cowpuncher in Montana" and later became a "top land...partner & lifelong friend of Charlie Russell."

Together, 4 photographs.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Condition
Julie Nelson cabinet card: soiling and tape residue on verso. Cody with Prince of Monaco: chipping to edges. Cody later in life: few light creases in print, tape and sticker residue on verso. Charlie Russell: overall very good.