Featured in this lot is this hand written ALS correspondence from David F. Barry (born in 1854 and died in 1934) with John Kleinschmidt circa 1926; from the ex-collection of the C.M. Russell Museum and John Kleinschmidt. The correspondence includes a conversation about pricing of some photographs that David F. Barry has made available for Mr. John Kleinschmidt with priceing specifically and specially for him as they were frequently writing to each other both in a friendship and professional capacity. The letter is on Barry's professional letterhead and is dated with correction from 1926 not 1962 or 1942 as he died in 1934. The condition of this D.F. Barry correspondence is well preserved with some fading to the bottom of the letter but otherwise shows a well preserved condition. The measurements of this letter is 11" x 8 1/5". The collective weight of this letter is U4oz. 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.