Print reproduces Peter Hurd's painting: Night rodeo. Depicts rider on bull at a nighttime rodeo; bull and rider in foreground; stands and people in middle-ground; night sky and lights in background
Description:
Title from caption below image., Signed within image in lower left: Peter Hurd, NA., and In 1954 the California Brewing Company of San Francisco gifted "Night Rodeo" by Peter Hurd (1904-1984) to the Salinas Public Library. The painting was one of a series commissioned by the California Brewing Company of San Francisco to depict "the spirit and flavor of the West."
Photograph album documenting the activities of Salmon Day festivities in Keller, Washington, ca. 1930. The celebration by the Colville Indians occurred near the mouth of the San Poil River. Images include views of streets and buildings in Keller, spectators and participants at a rodeo, and of a mountainside horse "suicide race" from a distance. Identified individuals include rodeo participants Len Perkins of Yuma, Arizona, and Oran Fore of Newhall, California, and Colville Indians, Chief Jim James and Mary Hughes
Description:
Individual photographs measure 12.5 x 18.0 cm. and smaller., There are some typescript captions., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington, Keller., Keller (Wash.), and San Poil River (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Fore, Oran., Hughes, Mary, Colville Indian., James, Jim, Colville Indian chief., and Perkins, Len.
Subject (Topic):
Colville Indians, Cowboys, Festivals, Indian cowboys, Indians of North America, and Rodeos
Album of photographs of a rodeo with primarily American Indian participants, probably in the American southwest, ca. 1930. The images of action include men riding horses, steers, and bulls, in addition to roping and bulldogging steers. Other images show a man thrown from a horse and another depicts an injured man being attended to on the ground. Remaining images include American Indian women, possibly in connection with a rodeo queen contest, a wagon pulled by mules, and groups of people encamped, probably around the rodeo arena
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Individual photographs measure 11.2 x 16.5 cm., and There are no captions.
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Southwest, New
Subject (Topic):
Beauty contests, Cowboys, Indian cowboys, Indians of North America, and Rodeos
Photographic postcards created by Newman Photo documenting The Stampede, a competitive tournament of cowboy skills at Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Brooklyn, New York, August 5-12, 1916. Images include action shots of individual male and female competitors riding horses, steers, and buffalos, in addition to bulldogging bulls. Individuals identified in images include Tillie Baldwin (the former Anna Matilda Winger Slate), A. J. Carrell, Jesse Coates, Prairie Rose Henderson (the former Ann Robins), Howard Lemmon, Henry Morris, Art Nash, Bill Robbins, Rufus Roland, Jack Thompson, Henry Warren, Wilkins Williams, in addition to African American cowboy Bill Pickett
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Captions inscribed in the images.
Publisher:
Newman Photo
Subject (Geographic):
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) and Speedway Park (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Photographs of a rodeo, probably taken around 1900, including a series depicting a cowboy starting off a steer, catching him, roping him, making a tie, and having the tie inspected by the rodeo judges, with spectators in stands in the background. There are also several photographs of cowboys riding in a parade in an unidentified town, possibly Los Angeles, and a single studio portrait of a man in buckskin with a lariat
