Albumen photograph of Wild West Performers

An albumen print depicting Wild West Performers. Captured outdoors, the image shows a large crowd of diverse individuals, both men and women, arranged sitting and standing in groups along riser seating, a long curtain strung behind them. Prominently featured in the back center is a teepee structure with several individuals in indigenous American style dress, some with feather headdress. In the center middle, below the teepee structure, is a group of white men in dark suits, and below them is a group of men in military style dress with tall hats, some holding musical instruments. Sitting on the ground at bottom center is a group of white women, some dressed as cowgirls. Among the crowd on the left side are more individuals in varied Native American dress, men in white turbans, a group of men in Prussian military style uniforms with eagle insignias on their hats, a group of men in sombreros, and a group of men dressed as cowboys and vaqueros, two holding lasso ropes. Among the crowd on the right side are more individuals in a variety of styles of American Indian dress, a black man holding a tuba, individuals in draped keffiyeh-style headscarves, and, along the bottom, a group of young men in light colored jackets, pants, tall spats, and hats reading [OZ], holding rifles. On the reverse of the photograph are various numerical inscriptions made in graphite.

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