Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Trippe, Silas Orlando; photographer.] Group portrait of Geronimo and four other Apaches in prison. Albumen print, 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, on early blank mount; minor wear to mount; captioned in manuscript "Apache Chiefs" on mount recto. Mount Vernon Barracks, AL, circa 1890

Additional Details

The Apache prisoners of war Chihuahua, Naiche, Loco, Nana and Geronimo in custody in Alabama. Another copy is in the Trippe Collection at the Alabama State Archives under the title "Mount Vernon Barracks."