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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Item: 02005
Title: Movie extras for "They Died with their boots on" pose on the train platform
Date: 1941
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [negative envelope] 1. Robert Schoenhut 12. Francis Zahn 3rd from right - Joe LaFrambois 2nd from right - Moses Brave Right End - Joe Fast Horse; [Handwritten in notebook] "They Died with Their Boots On" Movie; this is the group of Sioux who went from Ft. Yates to take part.
Summary: 1. Robert Schoenhut 12. Francis Zahn 3rd from right - Joe LaFrambois 2nd from right - Moses Brave Right End - Joe Fast Horse
Red ID: PH_I_14219 Image ID: 542045 Image Notes: 1952-02005

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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