Silver print
8 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in including period mount / 21 x 15.9 cm
Provenance: Skip Hollbrook, Santa Fe, NM
This 1920s silver print portrait shows the figure identified on the image as “Idaho Bill.” The photograph belongs to the later visual culture of the American West, when cowboy and frontier identities continued to be photographed, collected, and circulated. The period inscription on the hat gives the portrait a direct identifying detail without requiring further attribution.
The sitter is shown in close view, wearing a broad hat, neck scarf, and long hair associated with Western performance and frontier imagery. The silver print process gives the portrait a clear tonal range and strong presence, especially in the face and hat. As a mounted photograph, it fits within American West material, cowboy portraiture, and twentieth-century Western identity imagery.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
Silver print
8 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in including period mount / 21 x 15.9 cm
Provenance: Skip Hollbrook, Santa Fe, NM
This 1920s silver print portrait shows the figure identified on the image as “Idaho Bill.” The photograph belongs to the later visual culture of the American West, when cowboy and frontier identities continued to be photographed, collected, and circulated. The period inscription on the hat gives the portrait a direct identifying detail without requiring further attribution.
The sitter is shown in close view, wearing a broad hat, neck scarf, and long hair associated with Western performance and frontier imagery. The silver print process gives the portrait a clear tonal range and strong presence, especially in the face and hat. As a mounted photograph, it fits within American West material, cowboy portraiture, and twentieth-century Western identity imagery.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
