United States, Kansas
1904
Photograph mounted on card
5½ × 10½ in. (14 × 26.7 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Belen, NM
This 1904 ranch photograph records a group of men, equipment, wagons, and horses near Liberal, Kansas, a town closely tied to the settlement and agricultural history of the High Plains. The image includes handwritten red annotations identifying figures within the scene, adding documentary specificity that connects the photograph to the individuals and community it depicts. Its wide format gives a clear view of ranch activity, open grassland, and the working landscape of southwest Kansas.
The mounted photograph reflects the practical record-keeping and personal documentation common in early twentieth-century American ranching communities, combining people, horses, machinery, and open terrain in a single image that places the viewer within the visual history of the American West after the frontier period. Annotated ranch photographs with identified figures from named locations are seldom encountered in this condition.
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United States, Kansas
1904
Photograph mounted on card
5½ × 10½ in. (14 × 26.7 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Belen, NM
This 1904 ranch photograph records a group of men, equipment, wagons, and horses near Liberal, Kansas, a town closely tied to the settlement and agricultural history of the High Plains. The image includes handwritten red annotations identifying figures within the scene, adding documentary specificity that connects the photograph to the individuals and community it depicts. Its wide format gives a clear view of ranch activity, open grassland, and the working landscape of southwest Kansas.
The mounted photograph reflects the practical record-keeping and personal documentation common in early twentieth-century American ranching communities, combining people, horses, machinery, and open terrain in a single image that places the viewer within the visual history of the American West after the frontier period. Annotated ranch photographs with identified figures from named locations are seldom encountered in this condition.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
