John C. H. Grabill Photographs: The Wild West as it Really was

John C. H. Grabill Photographs: The Wild West as it Really was

Images of indigenous peoples, and early settlers

Grabill was a photographer who made sepia-toned photographs in the late 1800s in South Dakota and Wyoming, depicting native Americans, early settlers, and the interaction between the two populations. He sent one hundred and eight-eight images to the Library and Congress between 1887 and 1892 as part of the process of registering them images for purposes of copyright. You can click the thumbnails here to see larger images. This blog post from the Denver Post shows some selected images with captions.