Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 136

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Ben Wittick. Inauguration Dance . . . View in Pueblo Laguna, New Mexico. Albumen print, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; light toning and wear to image, light soiling along left edge, two small corner chips to mount. Laguna, NM, 12 January 1887

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George Benjamin Wittick (1845-1903) was a New Mexico photographer based out of Fort Wingate, about 60 miles west of Pueblo Laguna. He is best known for taking the only known surviving portrait of Billy the Kid; that one would cost you more.