Featured in this lot is this "Miss Walking Elk" cabinet card from 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 cabinet card features a wonderfully and professionally crafted original construction that shows a portrait photograph of Walking Elk. The front of the cabinet card is marked as follows: Miss Walking Elk - D.F. Barry, West Superior, Wis. The back is marked with the company stamp of D.F. Barry and reads as follows: Chief Gall - D.F. Barry, - Photographer, West Superior - Wis. - Photographs of all the noted Indians, - Catalogues Mailed on Application. 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 cabinet card is preserved with some wear to the front and the back of the cabinet card and shows some wear to the corners but otherwise is in preserved condition. The measurements of this cabinet card is 6 1/2" x 4 1/4". The collective weight of this cabinet card 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.