Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Goff, Orlando Scott. Cabinet card portrait of Sitting Bull. Albumen print, 5 1/2 x 4 inches, on photographer's embossed mount; verso blank with "Sitting Bull" inscribed in pen; minor wear. [North Dakota?], nd
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This was the first photograph ever taken of Sitting Bull. It was taken at Fort Yates, ND on 2 August 1881, two weeks after his surrender. He charged Goff $50 for the sitting. Utley, Sitting Bull, page 240.