| Historic Americana |
| Sundance Gallery 942 North Main Street Princeton, IL 61356 815-875-4424 |
| If interested in any of our antique items, please call 1 day in advance of your arrival. Due to insurance reasons, not all items are kept on-site. |
| Chief Stinking Bear Silver Gelatin print with W. K. Brewster (Enterprise Oregon) artist July, 4 (18)98 entitled in negative. Chief is wearing an eagle feather and buffalo horn bonnet holding a catlinite pipe and war club. A Battle of the Little Big Horn survivor. 6 x 8 image on 8 x 10 inch card stock. $1850.00 |
| 'Love + Bunton Outfit Ready For Work' entitled in negative. A really neat old chuck wagon scene of the Love And Bunton outfits. Pots, pans, campfire, cooks and more. If you look at the riders, you can see a woman wearing a dress on the left side of photo, this is Mary Taylor Bunton who in 1936 wrote a 77 page book A bride On The Chisholm Trail in 1886 about her life as a woman on the Chisholm Trail, traveling with her husband's outfit. She was the only known woman to travel on a cattle drive. Silver gelatin print 9 1/2" x 8 3/4" image, mounted on slightly larger card stock. Book and Photograph, $1250.00 |
| The Chisholm Trail ca. 1886 |
| Regarding our Antique Items All material is unconditionally guaranteed to be genuine. Any item may be returned without time limit, for a full refund for "Reasons of Authenticity", provided it is returned in the original purchased condition. |
| Sioux Moccasins ca. 1880-1890 A fine old pair of Plains Indian adult moccasins, sinew-sewn on native (brain tanned) hide with original trade cloth cuffs, original ties, minor bead loss, 10 inches. $1400.00 |
| Plains Indian Tack Decorated Top Hat A very early top hat, this one is silk and collapsible, (however we feel it is a bit too fragile to collapse). The silk ones are the oldest...1860's and earlier, and the beaver hats were later. It has a large brass medallion and several brass tacks. The outer rim is 9 x 12 inches and about 6 1/4 in height. $1400.00 |
| Railroad Justice This gruesome scene of a triple hanging...there are 3 men on the trestle, one holding a oil can and the other two are possible Pinkerton Agents by the way they are dressed. The engine has the numbers 65(?) on the housing behind the stack. There is no identification at all on the photo, looks like a western-style lynching, (don't rob trains) ca. 1880's photo 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches mounted on card stock. $800.00 |
| "Out West Up To Date" Real Photo Postcard, taken in the early 1900's, the backside is stamped along to top "Vince Dillon, Photos, Fairfax, Okla." Oklahoma was probably still Indian Territory at the time this was taken 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. $225.00 |
| Cowboys A boudoir-sized cabinet card 8 x 5 inches by the noted western photographer Kirkland. A view of a group of cowboys with Kirkland's stamp on the reverse. Marked "No. 24 Cowboys" in the negative, mounted on card stock. $700.00 |