Rinehart, F.A. Rinehart's Prints of Historic American Indians. Omaha: George Marsden, Rinehart-Marsden, Brandeis, [192_?] Folio (16 x 19 in.), suede covers over leather-covered boards. Vol. II. Containing 65 prints on textured paper. Front with Rinehart's North American Indians printed on it, with war club and pipe. Rear outer cover illustrated with decorated pottery. Pyrographic illustrations on inside leather on boards: front with plains feather headdress and spear, back with tipi near a body of water, with birchbark canoe, artist identification "Dorathea Bartlett." The text block is stitched together, then tied to the covers with suede thongs. First page indicates: "The majority of these portraits were made during the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1898 and on the Crow Reservation in 1900." Each photo is interleaved by a page with the individual's name and tribal affiliation. The circumstances surrounding the production of Rinehart's North American Indians are unclear. According to John Carter Senior Researcher at the Nebraska Historical Society and an authority on Rinehart, the Rinehart-Mardsen Studio operated in Omaha until the 1930s, when it was purchased by the Brandise Department store. Mardsen continued to run the studio until the negatives were acquired by Royall Sutton in the 1960s, who then began an ambitious project to produce Rhiehart's North American Indians. Other research has suggested that it was intended as a two volume set containing 130 portraits, bound in leather, and took about six weeks to produce. In a newspaper clipping acquired by Cowan's some years ago, the reporter noted that the sets had been offered for sale for "about 10 years" at a cost of $1500. The article also makes it clear that Sutton had had little luck in marketing the sets, and was attempting to peddle the volumes at gun shows. There has been some speculation that Sutton was attempting to reproduce a series printed in 1939 for the Omaha opening of the movie "Union Pacific." Other sources (WorldCat) think this was published in the 1920s, about a decade earlier. Condition: Minor areas of staining. Handling wear on a few pages, especially title page.
Rinehart, F.A. Rinehart's Prints of Historic American Indians. Omaha: George Marsden, Rinehart-Marsden, Brandeis, [192_?] Folio (16 x 19 in.), suede covers over leather-covered boards. Vol. II. Containing 65 prints on textured paper. Front with Rinehart's North American Indians printed on it, with war club and pipe. Rear outer cover illustrated with decorated pottery. Pyrographic illustrations on inside leather on boards: front with plains feather headdress and spear, back with tipi near a body of water, with birchbark canoe, artist identification "Dorathea Bartlett." The text block is stitched together, then tied to the covers with suede thongs. First page indicates: "The majority of these portraits were made during the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1898 and on the Crow Reservation in 1900." Each photo is interleaved by a page with the individual's name and tribal affiliation. The circumstances surrounding the production of Rinehart's North American Indians are unclear. According to John Carter Senior Researcher at the Nebraska Historical Society and an authority on Rinehart, the Rinehart-Mardsen Studio operated in Omaha until the 1930s, when it was purchased by the Brandise Department store. Mardsen continued to run the studio until the negatives were acquired by Royall Sutton in the 1960s, who then began an ambitious project to produce Rhiehart's North American Indians. Other research has suggested that it was intended as a two volume set containing 130 portraits, bound in leather, and took about six weeks to produce. In a newspaper clipping acquired by Cowan's some years ago, the reporter noted that the sets had been offered for sale for "about 10 years" at a cost of $1500. The article also makes it clear that Sutton had had little luck in marketing the sets, and was attempting to peddle the volumes at gun shows. There has been some speculation that Sutton was attempting to reproduce a series printed in 1939 for the Omaha opening of the movie "Union Pacific." Other sources (WorldCat) think this was published in the 1920s, about a decade earlier. Condition: Minor areas of staining. Handling wear on a few pages, especially title page.
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