Lot 332: D.F. Barry Photographs of An Indian Commission at Ft. Lincoln

Lot of 2 albumen photographs taken by D. F. Barry on August 7, 1889, with his Bismarck, Dakota mark on recto, 8 x 9.75 in. Photographs with manuscript identifications on verso, the first reads Indian Commission/ Gen. Crook, Gov. Fasler, Maj. Warner, the second, a group photograph of Mrs. L. Powell, Gen. Crook, Mrs. Maj. Powell/ Gov. Fasler, Maj. Powell, Maj. Warner, Maj. Randall. The lot is accompanied by a celluloid negative of the second group portrait, 3.75 x 4.75 in.

In the summer of 1889, General George Crook was appointed head of a new Commission to persuade the Sioux to accept an Act that involved breaking up the great Sioux Reservation. These photographs may have been taken in the midst of this Commission. Subsequently, the Sioux signed an agreement with the U.S. Government in 1889, and a significant portion of their land was thrown open to settlers.

Negatives produced Aug. 7, 1889.