A group of three (3) cabinet card photographs of W.F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Views include:

1. Cabinet card bust-length portrait of W.F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Brooklyn, NY: Stacy, n.d. Photographer's imprint to mount recto.

2. Cabinet card full-length portrait of W.F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Brooklyn, NY: Stacy, n.d. Photographer's imprint to mount recto.

3. Cabinet card half-length portrait of W.F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Brooklyn, NY: Stacy, n.d. Photographer's imprint to mount recto.

These three studio portraits of the famous Buffalo Bill Cody successfully capture the drama and flair that he brought to his Wild West show.

William F. Cody (1846-1917) was a Civil War soldier, western Army scout, and Wild West Showman,  best known by his stage name “Buffalo Bill.”  Cody’s "Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" touring show opened on 19 May 1883 in Omaha and, throughout the next three decades, American and European audiences were entertained by reenactments, storytelling, feats of skill, sideshows, music, and staged races. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West performers included Chief Sitting Bull and gunslingers Annie Oakley and Lillian Smith. Cody consequently became a symbol of the American West.

[Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards] [Western Americana, Western History, Western Expansion, Wild West]