Featured in this lot is this silver gelatin self-portrait of D.F. Barry by American photographer David F. 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 marked on both the bottom right of the photograph and the card border with the blind stamp as follows: Barry. The photograph comes with a museum or collectors tag that reads as follows: 1396-87 O'Dell. The photograph is a self portrait of David F. Barry circa 1926 showing him in a dress coat and hat with a well groomed moustache and from "Photographs of all noted Indian Chiefs portfolio". The condition of this D.F. Barry silver gelatin is good with some minor wear to the wooden frame but otherwise shows a good overall condition. The measurements of this framed photograph is 14 3/4" x 11 3/4" and the visible photograph measures 8" x 6". The collective weight of this photograph is 1lb 10oz.
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.