[Photographs of South Dakota and Wyoming].

Deadwood, South Dakota, [circa 1892-1896]

Source of 15 photographs unknown. 6 photographs purchased from Michael Vinson on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2016.

Henry Robinson Locke (1856-1927), photographer, ran a studio in Deadwood, South Dakota. Locke photographed the Black Hills area, Deadwood, Crow people, miners, and railroads.

Photographs taken by H. R. Locke and printed by H. R. Locke and Company, Locke and McBride, or Locke and Peterson of stops along the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, circa 1892-1896. Included are views of Deadwood, Lead City, Englewood, Needle Points in Custer Park, Horseshoe Curve near Custer, Spearfish Canyon, Bald Mountain, Knife Blade on Needle Rock in Elk Canyon, Harney's Peak (Black Elk Peak) in Black Hills, the Deadwood and Delaware Smelting Works and Homestake mines, and a photograph of I. V. Carlton, R. M. Welch, and D. A. Haggard "just back from work". Views in Wyoming show the Devil's Tower above the Belle Fourche River and Cambria; a view in Montana shows the Crow Agency. Advertisements on several of the versos are for "Easy to Reach Deadwood"; 2 photographs are stamped "J. T. Gillmore, Deadwood, South Dakota". A label affixed to a verso advertises E. F. King, Black Hills Jeweler.

English

June 01, 2002

H. R. Locke, Photographs of South Dakota and Wyoming. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

H. R. Locke, Photographs of South Dakota and Wyoming. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.