2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/22/2021
Cabinet card photograph of a squaw with papoose. Card mount with photographer's imprint of O.S. Goff. Very good condition. Orlando Scott Goff (1843-916) was a 19th-century photographer of the American West. In 1871 he moved to Yankton in Dakota Territory and in 1873 to Bismarck where he established a photographic studio and gallery. In 1875 he accepted the position of post photographer at Fort Abraham Lincoln while Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and several units of the 7th Cavalry Regiment were stationed there. Goff took the last pictures of Custer and his officers and men prior to their engagement at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Sitting Bull's allied Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho. Goff returned to Bismarck to attend to his studio. In 1877 he took the first photograph of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce people and on July 31, 1881 a photograph of Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa band of the Lakota people. He often embarked on travels outside of his studio, capturing images across the Plains and of Native Americans.
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