likely a Civil War-date negative, with imprint of A. Neuman, Photograph and Ambrotype Artist, Rolla, Mo., with applied one-cent revenue stamps each cancelled in pencil by Neuman. These stamps, employed between 1864-66, along with the Rolla, Missouri photographer's imprint provide the date and probably history of this early, and important sitting of "Wild Bill." After the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1862, Hickok is thought to have been attached to the 8th Missouri State Militia as a scout or spy (see Rosa 1974), and in 1865 was living in Springfield, Missouri. In July of that same year he was acquitted of shooting Dave Tutt, and by 1866 he had left Missouri and was serving as Deputy Marshall in Fort Riley, Kansas (see Thrapp 1988: 658-659). When this photograph was first publicly sold, it was compared with an identical carte of Hickok curated at the Kansas State Historical Society; their example lacks revenue stamps, suggesting the negative was taken prior to 1864. Provenance: Descended Directly in the Hickok Family; Greg Martin Auctions, June 16, 2003, lot number 7, The Mike Butler Collection of Western Photography Condition: Strong tonality with a light crease across his chest, corners lightly clipped for insertion into an album.
likely a Civil War-date negative, with imprint of A. Neuman, Photograph and Ambrotype Artist, Rolla, Mo., with applied one-cent revenue stamps each cancelled in pencil by Neuman. These stamps, employed between 1864-66, along with the Rolla, Missouri photographer's imprint provide the date and probably history of this early, and important sitting of "Wild Bill." After the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1862, Hickok is thought to have been attached to the 8th Missouri State Militia as a scout or spy (see Rosa 1974), and in 1865 was living in Springfield, Missouri. In July of that same year he was acquitted of shooting Dave Tutt, and by 1866 he had left Missouri and was serving as Deputy Marshall in Fort Riley, Kansas (see Thrapp 1988: 658-659). When this photograph was first publicly sold, it was compared with an identical carte of Hickok curated at the Kansas State Historical Society; their example lacks revenue stamps, suggesting the negative was taken prior to 1864. Provenance: Descended Directly in the Hickok Family; Greg Martin Auctions, June 16, 2003, lot number 7, The Mike Butler Collection of Western Photography Condition: Strong tonality with a light crease across his chest, corners lightly clipped for insertion into an album.
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