Old Bets, a Sioux woman 120 years old...
Photograph
Whitney & Zimmerman
Maker
Joel Emmons Whitney, American, 1822–1886; Charles A. Zimmerman, American, 1844–1909
Old Bets, a Sioux woman 120 years old...
ca. 1865
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 1/16 × 3 1/16 in. (7.7 × 7.8 cm)
Mount: 3 3/8 × 6 7/8 in. (8.5 × 17.5 cm)
Purchase, ex-collection Fred S. Lightfoot
1981.8669.0003
Inscriptions image recto (in negative, right image): 414
mount recto (letterpress): WHITNEY & ZIMMERMAN, PHOTOGRAPHERS
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA.
Old Bets, a Sioux Squaw 120 years old, will long be remembered wish [sic] gratitude by / many of the Minnesota Captives, for her kindness to them while among the Sioux in 1862.
mount verso (ink): S.D.S.
mount recto (letterpress): WHITNEY & ZIMMERMAN, PHOTOGRAPHERS
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA.
Old Bets, a Sioux Squaw 120 years old, will long be remembered wish [sic] gratitude by / many of the Minnesota Captives, for her kindness to them while among the Sioux in 1862.
mount verso (ink): S.D.S.
