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The lifetime collection of author and photo historian, Jim Crain (1939-2025). The catalog is exclusively devoted to antique photography with an emphasis on the Old West, California, Texas, and Native Americana from 1840-1900.
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Lot 585

[NATIVE AMERICANS, COLORADO] (3) W.H. Jackson Ute Encampment Stereoviews

Estimate: $500 - $750
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Group of three (3) albumen stereoviews by William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) featuring views of a Ute encampment. Views include: 

 

1. 4104. Ute Teapees [sic]. Outdoor albumen stereoview. Denver, Colorado: W.H. Jackson & Co., [1870s]. Title printed in negative. Photographer's 414 Larimer St. imprint to mount recto. Ownership stamp "L.L. Woodruff / 207 Harrison Ave. / Leadville, Colo." alongside modern pencil to mount verso.  

 

Close-range field view of a Ute family group resting in the sagebrush outside open canvas and skin tipis and an awning shelter.

 

2. 4103. War Chief's Tent. Outdoor albumen stereoview. Denver, Colorado: W.H. Jackson & Co., [1870s]. Title printed in negative. Photographer's 414 Larimer St. imprint to mount recto. Modern pencil identification to mount verso.  

 

View of multiple large lodges in a mountain valley setting, with several figures gathered in traditional dress before a prominent central tipi with lodgepoles extending high above the smoke flap.

 

3. 4102. Family Group of Utes. Outdoor albumen stereoview. Denver, Colorado: W.H. Jackson & Co., [1870s].  Title printed in negative. Photographer's 414 Larimer St. imprint to mount recto. Modern pencil identification to mount verso.  

 

Field portrait showing a standing figure draped in a blanket alongside seated individuals and a cradleboard arranged before a decorated tipi structure.

 

An important group of stereoviews documenting Ute camp life and material culture in Colorado during the 1870s, photographed by William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) during his tenure with the Hayden Geological Survey and his operation of the Denver studio. Jackson's images preserve essential details of late-nineteenth-century Ute lodge construction, trade blankets, and family life prior to widespread relocation.

 

 

[Native Americans, Ute, Colorado Territory, Denver Colorado, Tipis, Encampments, Hayden Survey, Plains Indians, Cradleboard, Trade Blankets, American West, Frontier History] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Stereoviews, Stereographs, Albumen Prints, William Henry Jackson, W. H. Jackson, Western Photographers]

Very good condition overall, with pleasing warm sepia tones, sharp detail, and good contrast. The card mounts remain solid and flat, exhibiting minor corner softening and light, even peripheral age toning. Versos clean.

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Jim Crain Collection.