Issuing Rations
Photograph
Bailey, Dix & Mead
American, active 1870s–1880s
Issuing Rations
From Indians of Dakota Territory
ca. 1882
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 4 1/8 × 3 3/8 in. (10.5 × 8.5 cm)
Mount: 4 1/2 × 7 in. (11.4 × 17.8 cm)
Museum accession
1970.0060.0001
Inscriptions Printed on recto, BR: Copyrighted, 1882, by Bailey, Dix & Mead.
Printed on verso, C: NO. 9. NO. 9. \ Issuing Rations. \ April 18th, 1883. Giving four distinct views. An Indian with a \ pipe in his hand in the foreground watching the artist, some officers \ and their families with Indians standing and squatting around them. \ Behind them the camp, and in the distance the hills covered with \ snow. \ A Ration is the amount of food furnished each individual every \ twenty four hours, and is proportioned as follows, for every one \ hundred rations. \ [ration list] \ [backlist of titles in series]
Inscribed in blue on verso, BR: out \ out
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, LT: Purchase. May 17/49 - 50¢
Printed on verso, C: NO. 9. NO. 9. \ Issuing Rations. \ April 18th, 1883. Giving four distinct views. An Indian with a \ pipe in his hand in the foreground watching the artist, some officers \ and their families with Indians standing and squatting around them. \ Behind them the camp, and in the distance the hills covered with \ snow. \ A Ration is the amount of food furnished each individual every \ twenty four hours, and is proportioned as follows, for every one \ hundred rations. \ [ration list] \ [backlist of titles in series]
Inscribed in blue on verso, BR: out \ out
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, LT: Purchase. May 17/49 - 50¢
