CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: Wa-Kan-O-Zhan-Zhan (Medicine Bottle)


Wa-Kan-O-Zhan-Zhan (Medicine Bottle)
From the North American Indian Photographs (Newberry Library) in CARLI Digital Collections.

This project attempts to preserve the documentary evidence inherent in each photograph. It includes digitized versos if they contain marks and notations and it also relies on the photographs themselves for descriptive information.

This image is a 5.8 cm. x 8.6 cm carte de visite . Printed on mount, "Engaged in the Massacre of 1862. Prisoner at Fort Snelling." Two cent stamp on verso side. Printed on verso side, "The plate from which this Picture was made will be preserved. Copies can be obtained at any time. Photograph Albums In Great Variety, Card Photographs of Indians, Scenery & Celebrities For Sale."

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