When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Original collotype photo by George B. Cornish titled: OTOE INDIAN WOMAN. Published Arkansas City, KS, 1907. (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches). An attractive black and white image with sepia tone, in excellent condition.
A handsome and dignified portrait of an Otoe Indian woman. She wears a shirt with silver ornaments on the shoulders, earrings with long beaded strands, and beadwork necklaces.
George Barcroft Cornish (1867 - 1946) was a late 19th/early 20th century photographer of portraits and scenes from the American West including Native Americans and ranchers. He was assistant to W. S. Prettyman at the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1893 where he made the famous image of the first chaotic seconds of the “Run”. Cornish established a studio in Arkansas City Kansas (a boom town on the border of Indian Territory) where he concentrated on photographing cowboys and Indians in the Ponca City, Bliss, and Guthrie areas, as well as at the renowned 101 Ranch. His images were sold at Cornish Studio in Arkansas City and the gift shop at the 101 Ranch and Wild West Show.
Examples of this fine image of a Native American are in the Special Collections of the Degolyer Library at SMU, Kansas City Library, and the Cherokee Strip land Rush Museum.
