Cabinet card photograph
6 in x 4 in / 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, AZ
This 1890 cabinet card shows a young cowboy posed in a studio setting with a rope, broad hat, fitted jacket, boots, and formal backdrop. The exact studio and location are not confirmed from the visible image, so the photograph is best presented as Western Americana rather than assigned to a specific place. The sitter’s clothing and pose place the image within late nineteenth-century cowboy portraiture and the visual culture of the American West.
The photograph is carefully staged, presenting the cowboy figure through dress, equipment, and studio convention rather than as a working ranch scene. Cabinet cards were widely used during this period for portraits, performers, and regional identities, making the format especially relevant to Western collecting. With Phoenix provenance, the piece fits within American West photography, cowboy imagery, and nineteenth-century Americana.
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Cabinet card photograph
6 in x 4 in / 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, AZ
This 1890 cabinet card shows a young cowboy posed in a studio setting with a rope, broad hat, fitted jacket, boots, and formal backdrop. The exact studio and location are not confirmed from the visible image, so the photograph is best presented as Western Americana rather than assigned to a specific place. The sitter’s clothing and pose place the image within late nineteenth-century cowboy portraiture and the visual culture of the American West.
The photograph is carefully staged, presenting the cowboy figure through dress, equipment, and studio convention rather than as a working ranch scene. Cabinet cards were widely used during this period for portraits, performers, and regional identities, making the format especially relevant to Western collecting. With Phoenix provenance, the piece fits within American West photography, cowboy imagery, and nineteenth-century Americana.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
