Medora Poker Players

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Title

Medora Poker Players

Description

Poker players in Medora, 1890s. "166" is written in the lower right corner. Written on the back is, "166", "COPY 8-30-88 #13", "25", "#13A", "13" and "DOP". Some men in Medora are sitting at a round table in a wood building playing poker. Four men with hats are currently playing a card game, with chips and bets on the table, while one more sits behind them. The one-room building they are inside has one large window, a chest, a stove, with a pail on top, some hanging tools and bags. Also on the back wall is a guitar and a rifle. On the far left of the photo is a writer's desk. Exact date unknown. Not identified.

Creator

Osborn

Rights

This image cannot be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center. This image may be freely used for education uses, so long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image file is permitted without written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center.

Format

jpg, tiff

Medium

black and white photographic print

Identifier

2010-018-082

Spatial Coverage

Medora, ND

Provenance

Osborn, Lawton E. Sr.

Rights Holder

Copyright Southwestern North Dakota Museum Foundation and Dickinson Museum Center

Original Format

Photographic prints

Physical Dimensions

8.375" x 10"

Cataloguer's Notes

Two envelopes. The larger, glassine envelope has "Poker-Medora" written on the outside, in addition to a delivery date (12/10/1988) and "#13 PHOTO" and A-M., written on it. The smaller envelope made to store the small negatives has the same information in addition to some miscellaneous order information and some details on how to make prints of the negatives (make the prints borderless and refer to a note on the back of a print).

Physical Location

Osborn Album #2

Ordering Info

http://dickinsonmuseumcenter.com/fees/ ?

Comments

Allowed tags: <p>, <a>, <em>, <strong>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>

Collection

Citation

Osborn, “Medora Poker Players,” Southwestern North Dakota Digital Archive At the Dickinson Museum Center, accessed March 29, 2024, https://dmc.omeka.net/items/show/663.