Three-quarter length stutio portrait of Native American man. Albumen cabinet card. Parsons, Kansas; Vinita, Muskogee, etc., Indian Territory: J.F. Standiford, circa 1890s. Standiford's illustrated imprints to mount recto and verso. 

A handsome portrait of a Native American man wearing a vest and wrapped in a blanket

In the 1890s, J.F. Standiford billed himself as the "Only Licensed U.S. Photographer in the Indian Territory." With headquarters at Muskogee in the Creek Nation. Later moving to Parsons, Kansas, he continued his travels in Indian Territory, making regular visits, as touted on his illustrated mount, to Vinita, Eufaula, Wagoner, and other prominent settlements. 

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