Call NumberNS-494Datecirca 1892SummaryA cowboy on horseback works to lower the body of a man hanged during a reenactment in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. In the act, the man was hanged because he was a horse thief. A second man stands on the ground next to the pole. A hat, probably the horse thief's, lies on the dirt ground in the right foreground. A landscape scene is painted on the backdrop in the right center background next to the grandstand for the audience.Physical Description1 photoprint : black and white |7 x 9 cm (2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) on album sheet 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectWild west showsHangingsBuffalo Bill, 1846-1917Buffalo Bill's Wild West ShowHorse stealing.CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR700105494Type of MaterialPhotographic printsDigital Version Created FromSalsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, album 2 (A.R. Dresser photographs)Original Material Found in CollectionSalsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West ShowNotesAt the Wild West Earl's Court with a crouch hand camera during July, August and September 1892. BÌ€uffalo Bill's Show.' Presented to Nat Salisbury Esq for use of the staff with A.R. Dressers Compliments Springfield Bexley Heath. Kent, England Oct. 1892 handwritten on first page of album. "F502" handwritten on album sheet below photoprint. Edges of album sheet are deteriorating. Image mounted on album sheet with "NS-491," "NS-492" and "NS- 493."|See also: NS860. Subseries title taken from album cover. Title supplied by cataloger. Vintage photographic print. R7001054947
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