Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Frank A. Rinehart. Group of 3 portraits of Apache and Sioux. Hand-colored platinum prints, 9 x 6½ inches to sight, captioned "Three Fingers, Cheyennes," "Chief Wolf Robe, Cheyenne," and "Chief Sitting Bull, Sioux," signed in the negative; laid down on later board with overmats. Omaha, NE, 1898 and undated

Additional Details

The Sitting Bull portrait was not actually photographed by Rinehart; the caption reads "Copied by F.A. Rinehart, Omaha." The source image is believed to be by Minneapolis photographers Palmquist & Jurgens in 1884.