Days Gone By

Jun 26 2012
8:02 pm

William Henry Jackson,A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden’s camp of the U.S. Geological and Geophysical Survey. Red Buttes, Wyoming, 24 August 1870.

Source: USGS Photographic Library

Posted 11 months ago
#1870s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #william henry jackson #red buttes #wyoming #USA #frontier #old west #wild west

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Jun 19 2012
12:36 am

Will Rogers, 19th century.

Posted 12 months ago
#19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #will rogers #cowboy #actor #wild west #old west #history

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Jun 11 2012
9:57 am

Mathew Brady, Elk-horn chair, presented to President Lincoln, Nov. 26, 1864, by Seth Kinman, the California Hunter and Trapper.

Posted 1 year ago
#1860s #19th century #victorian #elk #elk horn #chair #chairs #furniture #wtf #seth kinman #wild west #old west #california #USA #mathew brady #president lincoln #abraham lincoln

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Jun 8 2012
11:02 pm

A scene from “The Great Train Robbery” (1903).

Source: The Kobal Collection

Posted 1 year ago
#1900s #vintage #silent film #guns #gun #cowboy #wild west #old west #the great train robbery

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Jun 8 2012
6:02 am

African-American cowboy Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick, ca. 1870s.

Posted 1 year ago
#1870s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #USA #nat love #deadwood dick #cowboy #wild west #old west #african-american

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Jun 5 2012
7:13 pm

John Swartz, Fort Worth Five Photograph, Fort Worth, Texas, 1900. Front row left to right: Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid; Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; Standing: Will Carver and Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry.

Posted 1 year ago
#1900s #outlaws #outlaw #old west #USA #wild west #john swartz #vintage #portrait #history #victorians #victoria #hats #fort worth #texas #gang #sundance kid #tall texan #butch cassidy #kid curry #will carver

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Jun 5 2012
9:03 am

Memento Mori of the Dalton Gang, outlaws in the American Old West. Left to right: Bill Power, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, and Dick Broadwell, October 1892.

Source: Cramers Art Rooms of Cherryvale, Kansas

Posted 1 year ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #postmortem #postmortem photography #old west #wild west #outlaw #oiutlaws #death #dead body #dalton gang #gang #gangs #bill power #bob dalton #grat dalton #dick broadwell #rifle

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Jun 5 2012
12:44 am

Mug shot of Laura Bullion, member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, 1893.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 1 year ago
#1890s #19th century #USA #badass #butch cassidy #history #laura bullion #old west #outlaw #portrait #victorian #victorians #vintage #wild bunch #wild west #mug shot #criminal #crime #outlaws

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Jun 3 2012
9:37 pm

Annie Oakley, ca. 1880s.

Posted 1 year ago
#1880s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #annie oakley #hats #feminist #cowgirl #buffalo bill's wild west show #old west #wild west

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Jun 3 2012
8:06 pm

Interior of Table Bluff Hotel and Saloon in Table Bluff, Humboldt County, California, 1889.

Source: Sonoma County Library

Posted 1 year ago
#1880s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #humboldt #humboldt county #california #northern california #USA #gold rush #old west #wild west #table bluff hotel #saloon

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