Charles Nesbitt, Margôt Nesbitt, and Emil W. Lenders Photograph Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: WHC-P-2495

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Black-and-white original prints of the employees and performances of the Miller Brothers 101 and Pawnee Bill’s wild west shows. The collection includes individual images and group scenes of cowboy and cowgirl performers, as well as those of Indian performers from the Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kickapoo, Osage, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, and Sioux tribes. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates

Creation: 1900-1925

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.

Open for public research.