Albumen print cabinet card portrait of Sitting Bull, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches laid down to 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch board, 1880s, titled "Sitting Bull" in the negative and with photographer's imprint at lower mount ("R.L. Kelly, Pierre, S.D."), verso blank, some fading to image, thumbing to board. Striking image of Sitting Bull with a monarch butterfly pinned to the brim of his hat. Robert L. Kelly (1851-1934) arrived in Pierre in 1881 and set up a photography studio there, photographing Calamity Jane as well as Sitting Bull.
Albumen print cabinet card portrait of Sitting Bull, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches laid down to 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch board, 1880s, titled "Sitting Bull" in the negative and with photographer's imprint at lower mount ("R.L. Kelly, Pierre, S.D."), verso blank, some fading to image, thumbing to board. Striking image of Sitting Bull with a monarch butterfly pinned to the brim of his hat. Robert L. Kelly (1851-1934) arrived in Pierre in 1881 and set up a photography studio there, photographing Calamity Jane as well as Sitting Bull.
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