D. C. Smith of Bismarck, Dakota Territory

[Dietmar]

Does anyone have information on photographer D. C. Smith of Bismarck, North Dakota? I only found this newspaper clipping in The Bismarck Tribune of July 11th, 1873:




The expedition mentioned must be Col. Stanley´s Yellowstone expedition, which started in June 1873 in an attempt to develop a railroad through today´s Montana. William Pywell was hired as photographer instead of Smith.

The reason I ask is, we´ve had an amazing group photo of Hidatsa Indians in another thread

amertribes.proboards.com/thread/95/identification-photos?page=4

and I recently found the same photo offered at Ebay. Apparently this and two other photos were taken by D. C. Smith, I would assume in the late 1870s. Or did he copy them from other photographers?






Crow´s Breast, Hidatsa

[grahamew]

Great photos, Dietmar.I'd always assumed the top one was a Morrow. Guess not. I'd seen the Crows Breast photo but not the middle one.

[buffaloman]

Great images! I found this on Google books, page .196 of The Yellow Doll- Deadwood, Hickok, and Opium By David A. Soma-

[ephriam]

I can add this:

"D. C. Smith, photographer, who has been with Hamilton & Hoyt, has left the city to accompany the Yellowstone expedition for the purpose of taking negatives of scenes worth notice on that trip." (Sioux City Journal, May 21, 1873).

Also notice that the CDV above of Crow's Breast was originally published by James H. Hamilton, of Sioux City, Iowa (I am not certain whether the portrait was taken by Bryon H. Gurnsey or by Hamilton, who bought Gurnsey out). This image was later pirated and reprinted by a number of different photographers, including D. S. Mitchell and D. C. Smith.

D. C. Smith is listed in St. Paul in the studio of Smith & Soderburg.

According to Carl Mautz's list of western photographers, a photographer named D. C. Smith operated in Blair, NE in 1879-80 and in Omaha from 1884 to 1893.

[Dietmar]

I like to thank Koos van Oostrom again for sharing this exciting collage of two men in the new D. C. Smith photograph:




left: Bobtail Bull, Arikara
right: Yellow Bull, Arikara

Please compare hair, gorget, eardrops and saber in both Bobtail Bull portraits and feathers, shirt and pipe in the Yellow Bull portraits.

[Dietmar]

I suggested yesterday that Bobtail Bull is as well in the group photo by D.C. Smith and I am thankful that Koos made another collage, not only with Bobtail Bull, but also seemingly with the shirt he´s wearing, found by a member of the Plains Indians Seminar Yahoo group at the Morning Star Gallery:

[Dietmar]

Some comparisons of the men in the Fort Berthold group photo by D.C. Smith, created by Koos van Oostrom:


Rushing Bear, Arikara



Prairie Chicken, Hidatsa



Crow´s Breast, Hidatsa



Sioux Dog (aka Sioux Horse aka Enemy Dog)



Antelope (aka Plenty Antelope), Hidatsa

[LeRoy Nassif]

I found this article that might pinpoint date of picture taken in Bismarck, ND in 1870s.
www.newspapers.com/clip/7199642/the_bismarck_tribune/

[Dietmar]

Thank you very much LeRoy,

I have moved the post to the thread where we´ve been discussing the D.C. Smith photos.


For more information on this photograph, please see here:

amertribes.proboards.com/thread/2367/fort-berthold-delegation-bismarck-1870s

and

amertribes.proboards.com/thread/95/identification-photos?page=5