ORIGINAL WILD WEST DEADWOOD DAKOTA TERRITORY - CABINET CARD PHOTO 1879-1886. For Sale

WILD WEST ! DEADWOOD DAKOTA TERRITORY - CABINET CARD PHOTO 1879-1886

EXCELLENT ANTIQUE CONDITION WITH SHARP DETAIL AND RICH SEPIA TONES. VERY MINOR CORNER WEAR TO THE MOUNT CONSISTENT WITH AGE. NO CREASES OR TEARS ON THE IMAGE. REVERSE SIDE FEATURES A HIGHLY DETAILED, CRISP IMPRINTED PHOTOGRAPHER BACKMARK WITH NO HANDWRITTEN MARKS. PLEASE REVIEW ALL PHOTOGRAPHS FOR EXACT CONDITION.

• FORMAT: CABINET CARD
• PHOTOGRAPHER: ALBERT POLLOCK
• LOCATION: DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORY (D.T.)
• STREET ADDRESS: CORNER OF MAIN AND GOLD STREETS
• ESTIMATED DATE: 1879 - 1886
• SUBJECT: FRONTIER MAN AND WOMAN PORTRAIT
• BORDER STYLE: GOLD BEVELED EDGE
• ORIGINAL VINTAGE IMPRINT

FOR SALE IS AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND AUTHENTIC LATE-19TH-CENTURY CABINET CARD PORTRAIT FROM THE ICONIC WILD WEST BOOMTOWN OF DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

THIS PIECE WAS CAPTURED BY HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHER ALBERT POLLOCK AT HIS STUDIO LOCATED AT THE FAMOUS CORNER OF MAIN AND GOLD STREETS. POLLOCK OPERATED THIS STUDIO FROM APPROXIMATELY 1879 UNTIL 1886, SECURELY DATING THIS PHOTOGRAPH TO DEADWOOD\'S MOST LEGENDARY FRONTIER ERA—THE VERY SAME YEARS INHABITED BY WILD BILL HICKOK, CALAMITY JANE, AND SETH BULLOCK.

THE FRONT SHOWS A FORMAL STUDIO PORTRAIT OF A WELL-DRESSED FRONTIER COUPLE. THE BACK FEATURES THE HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE, ORNATE VICTORIAN BACKMARK ADVERTISING \"Pollock & Borden,Cor. Main and Gold Sts.NIES BLOCK, DEADWOOD, D.T.\" BECAUSE THE DAKOTA TERRITORY \"D.T.\" DESIGNATION WAS ONLY USED BEFORE SOUTH DAKOTA ACHIEVED STATEHOOD IN 1889, THIS CARD IS A VERIFIABLE PIECE OF PRE-STATEHOOD WESTERN AMERICANA HISTORY. PERFECT FOR GENEALOGY RESEARCHERS, BLACK HILLS HISTORIANS, OR HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTORS.

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