This is an astonishingly rare and important photograph taken by Orlando Scott Goff of a young David Francis Barry when he was a young man of 16 or 17 years of age in circa 1870-1871; from the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona. Orlando Scott Goff (1843-1916) was a noted photographer of the 19th-century American West. After serving in the U.S. Civil War he learned the trade of photography in Lyons, New York and then in 1868 moved to Portage, Wisconsin where he was a photographer and operated a gallery nearby Columbus. Here in Wisconsin he befriended and brought on as an apprentice his future business partner, David Francis Barry. In 1871 he moved to Yankton, South Dakota Territory and established a photographic studio and gallery in Bismark by 1873. Goff became the post photographer of Fort Abraham Lincoln working under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and several units of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment that were stationed there. By 1878 Goff sent for David F. Barry to join him to further his apprenticeship. Goff was responsible for the last pictures of Custer and his officers and men prior to their engagement at the Battle of the Little Bighorn agist Sitting Bull’s allied Sioux, Chyenne and Arapaho; along with D.F. Barry. He photographed the first image of Chief Joseph the famed Nez Perce leader, he photographed Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa band of Lakota people on July 31, 1881. Goff also traveled between Fort Custer and Assiniboine in Montana during the 1880’s and 1890’s, he accompanied the 10th Cavalry on a trip through the Crow Reservation photographing Chief Medicine Crow, Plenty Coups and Bell Rock. David Francis Barry (March 6, 1854 – March 6, 1934) was a 19th-century photographer of the American West. Barry was born in Honeoye Falls, New York. In 1861, his family moved west to Otsego, Wisconsin and the following year to nearby Columbus. While growing up in Columbus, Wisconsin David F. Barry landed odd jobs assisting photographer Orlando Scott Goff who had maintained a gallery in that city. 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 and his family arrived in the West, at Otsego, Wisconsin 1861 and later Columbus where he assisted Orlando Scott Goff becoming his apprentice. Later when O.S. Goff opened a photographic business in South Dakota Territory he became the post photographer for Fort Lincoln under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. At this time Goff sent for David F. Barry to continue his apprenticeship. From here Barry began his work being a photographer at Fort Abraham Lincoln and eventually capturing Colonel George Armstrong Custer, the officers of the 7th Cavalry and famous Native American as Sitting Bull, Rain-In-The-Face, Chief Crow King, Chief Gall, Low Dog, Red Cloud, Chief John Grass, amongst others. The condition of this early O.S. Goff photograph of D.F. Barry is well preserved with no major damage and shows slight browning to the boudoir / cabinet card but otherwise shows a well preserved condition. The measurements of this photograph is 6 1/2" x 4 1/4". Provenance: From the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona, Stephen Elliott and Marge Elliott (Steven Elliott) and historian John Gilcrease collection. P121