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No Binding. Condición: Fine. _____One 7.75 x 6" (19.8 x 15 cm) sepia toned collotype, titled in the plate._____ . _____ Copyrighted by Cornish in Arkansas City, Kansas, it was in fact part of a long series of photos of Native Americans in the Indian Territory taken by Prettyman. _____ "Largely to one man goes the credit for preserving what little is left of the thousands of plates made with such precision and perseverance._____ He was George B. Cornish, a protege and youthful partner of Prettyman's who had a greater respect than his teacher for this monumental record ._____Each time he moved to larger quarters he took along the remnants of the work of.Prettyman._____ To assure their continued existence he made glass positives of many of these plates, which he keep in careful storage._____Never did Cornish attempt to borrow the greatness of his teacher, nor claim the authorship of his work."--Robert E. Cunningham in Indian Territory / A Frontier Photographic Record by W.S._____Prettyman (U.Ok Press, 1957). _____ This is the photo that was used on the jacket of "Indian Territory" ._____.…