Matador Chuck Wagon

Erwin E. Smith (1886-1947)

Date

1909
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 7 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.c. on gold label: The chuck wagon was really an innovation of later days of trail drving, \ after the business had become thoroughly systematized and put on some- \ thing of a scientific basis. In the early days supplies were either carried on pack horses or mules in crude two-wheeled carts
u.r. inked stamp: APR XX 1946
c. in graphite: 23 1/2 \ 23 1/4
c.r. in graphite: 7017 \ 78
l.c. on paper remnants in graphite: - 9 pica= -2%
inscribed l.c. in graphite: Matador Chuck wagon \ Copyright by Erwin E. Smith, Bonham, Texas [partially covered by adhered paper]
Collection Name

Erwin E. Smith Pettis Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Mary Alice Pettis
Accession Number

P1986.42.84
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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