Showing posts with label iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iowa. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Early Bird's Eye View Photo of Houses and Businesses in Sioux City, Iowa (1860's)

 


View of houses and businesses in Sioux City, Iowa, c. 1860s. Taken by photographer Byron Gurnsey and originally published as a stereoview.

Source: Library of Congress.

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Photo of a Steamboat Named Yellowstone Possibly Photographed on the Missouri River Near Sioux City, Iowa (1860's)

View of a steamboat named Yellowstone possibly photographed on the Missouri River near Sioux City, Iowa, c. 1865-1870. Taken by photographer Byron H. Gurnsey and originally published as a stereoview. Other stereoviews in the Library of Congress' collection by Gurnsey with the same mount were taken in and around Fort Berthold in Dakota Territory.

Source: Library of Congress.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Photo of a Winnebago Native American Woman With a Young Child Posing in Front of a Wigwam Probably Somewhere in Iowa (1860s)

 


Portrait of an Winnebago Native American woman with a young child posing in front of a wigwam probably somewhere in Iowa, c. 1860s. Originally published as a stereoview by photography firm Hamilton & Hoyt and attributed to photographer C. L. Hamilton.

Source: Library of Congress.

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