For your consideration is a Vintage Rolland Lutz Photograph of Sioux Chief Iron Road, circa 1920s -1930s, Mandan, North Dakota. 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. An attached museum tag reads, "1396-87 O'Dell". Iron Road poses for a seated portrait. He wears a feathered and fur headdress, traditional Indian tanned hide leather fringed garment shirt, bone hairpipe and shells breastplate while holding a typical Northern Plains bead and feather wrapped war club. Rolland Ray Lutz (1887-1964) is among the very few with a collection of his life's work among the archives of the Smithsonian Institution. Lutz purchased the Peter Holmboe Photographic Studio which had been for sale in Mandan in 1914. Lutz benefited from the longest running cottage industry in Mandan. Starting in 1917, members of the Standing Rock Sioux nation were hired by the Northern Pacific Railway to perform in depot park as a tourist attraction for patrons who selected the NP line verses their competitors line which ran through Minot. The practice typically occurred June through September each year. Rolland Lutz gained national attention when honored with the title "Master Photographer of America." Lutz sold his practice to Lee Mohr in 1937, the "Mohr Mandan, N. D." blind stamp is on the bottom right corner of the photograph. Lee William Mohr (1904-1983) continued the studio and worked as a photographer for more than thirty years. In addition to the portrait work that came with his chosen profession, Mohr made several images of events and locales around the state. He primarily photographed rodeos but also made images of floods caused by Missouri River overflows, trains, train wrecks, construction projects, the Garrison Dam, Fort Abraham Lincoln, as well as sights in Bismarck, North Dakota. The name "Iron-Road" is written in ink on the bottom left corner. The photograph is in amazing preserved condition, mounted in a wood frame and sits behind glass to protect its already preserved condition, scuffing noted to frame. The visible art measures 10"W x 13"L, frame is 11.75" W x 14.75" L x .75" D. Weight is 1lb, 10oz.