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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00081
Title: Large crowd watching horse races at Indian Fair
Date: 1900
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [in blue ink on back of photograph] 1952-00081 Indian camp
Summary: A large crowd including Laura Fiske in the foreground watching the horse races in the distance with a camp of tipis and canvas tents on the hillside beyond. The horses are stirring up dust as they race across the plain. Laura Fiske is mounted side saddle on a horse wearing a dress with black gloves, a scarf around her head and a hair-pipe chest piece over her shoulders. The horse has star bunting around its neck. A man to photo right is dressed in star fabric, holding a US flag and wearing a mask.
Red ID: PH_I_15416 Image ID: 146839 Image Notes: 1952-00081

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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