Featured in this lot is this "Dedication of Standing Rock Sitting Bull, Major Mclaughlin, and Louis Primo," by American photographer David Francis Barry born in 1854 and died in 1934; from the ex-collection of the C.M. Russell Museum and John Kleinschmidt. The photograph features a wonderfully and professionally crafted silver gelatin construction that is blind stamped 'BARRY' in the right hand bottom corner and shows a group of Native Americans in the distance with Sitting Bull and Major Mclaughlin with the interpreter Louis Primo in the foreground. "Stone being placed on monument at the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota; Agent James McLaughlin on right of marker, Sitting Bull on left, and Joe Primeau (interpreter) leaning against post; Dakota Native Americans sitting on ground wrapped in blankets, United States military soldiers atop horses, and other men and children in group gathered around." - Denver Public Library. The photograph comes complete with correspondence from Mr. John Kleinschmidt To David Francis Barry himself discussing this photograph and others; These two were in constant contact as collectors and historians as well as correspondence from Vincent Mercaldo another historian and Mr. Kleinschmidt discussing a pamphlet sent to him by Mr. Mercaldo. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. The condition of this D.F. Barry photograph is well preserved with no obvious signs of damage to the photograph and shows minimal wear to the frame. The measurements of this framed photograph is 8 1/8" x 10 1/4" and the visible photograph measures 7 1/8" x 9 1/8". The collective weight of this photograph is 14oz. David Francis Barry (1854-1934) was one of the most noted photographers of the American Indian and U.S. Army participants in the Sioux War of 1876 and is attributed with some of the most recognizable surviving images from this period in the history of the American West. Barry first came to the west in the 1870’s to apprentice under photographer O.S. Goff, who worked as the photographer at Fort Abraham Lincoln. It was from this post the Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led his Seventh U.S. Cavalry division in May 1876 to the battle of the Little Bighorn in southwestern Montana. This is considered one of the largest collection of Barry photographs from one historic Montana family offered for public sale.