Indians crossing the North Platte River at Fort Laramie

Series TitleScenes in Indian Country

Artist Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)

Date1868

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 9/16 × 12 3/4 inches (24.29 × 32.39 cm)
Mount: 14 1/16 × 19 3/16 inches (35.72 × 48.74 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.526

SignedTyped on mount recto, lower left: "A. Gardner, Photographer,"; Typed on mount recto, lower right: "511 Seventh Street, Washington."

InscribedTyped on mount recto, lower center: "Scenes in the Indian Country." On mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "Indian Crossing the Platte"

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DescriptionImage of people crowded into a wooden canoe near the shore of the river; one woman in the back of the boat holds an umbrella over her head.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Across the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-1868. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 25, 2014 - January 11, 2015, Jane L. Aspinwall, Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867 – 1868, 2014, no. 57.

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