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REAL (Historical) P H O T O G R A P H S

SETH BULLOCK:

 
Bullock, Seth - from Adams Museum & House

Bullock, Seth

Bullock, Seth, grave at Mt. Moriah


CALAMITY JANE:

Calamity Jane
- from Deadwood.org

Calamity Jane [a contrast to her usual photos] - from Eskie.net

Calamity Jane in 1880 - from Schoolnet.co.uk

Calamity Jane (seated, colorized) - from Articwebsite.com

Calamity Jane - b&w plus brief biography - from NNDB

Calamity Jane - several photographs including a rare one wearing a dress - from Romance Reader at Heart

Calamity Jane at "Wild Bill" Hickok's grave in Mt. Moriah

Calamity Jane [in ladie's hat] - #2 from Denver Public Library

Calamity Jane on horseback - from Legends of America

Calamity Jane in her coffin, 1903

Calamity Jane's Rock. Custer State Park, South Dakota - from American Memory


DEADWOOD (TOWN OF):

Deadwood Gulch Main Street in 1876 - from Adams Museum & House web site

Deadwood, street scene in 1876- from American Memory

Deadwood 1876-1879, Main Street - Denver Public Library

Deadwood in 1876 - colorized

View of Deadwood Town and Residential Buildings 1887 - 1892 - from American Memory

Deadwood, Birdseye View, circa 1890, postcard - USGenWeb

Deadwood, S.D. circa 1900 (aerial view)
- from American Memory

Deadwood, South Dakota in 1909 (panoramic view)
- from American Memory

Penny Postcards of Lawrence County, South Dakota, many old including a "Birds Eye View" - from USGenWeb [includes several of Deadwood]

Deadwood Today
    Deadwood shootout and more - from Cyclerides.com
    Deadwood from above
    
Deadwood, Main Street
    The Bullock Hotel
    
Wild Bill Hickok's Grave - from Digital Deadwood
    
Calamity Jane's Grave - from Johnnorrisbrown.com

    Saloon #10 (Wild Bill's last stop)

    Deadwood - various photographs from Johnnorrisbrown.com
    Several Deadwood photos - USGennet



GOLD MINES & GOLD MINERS:

Golden Reward smelter, three cyanide mills, Deadwood and Bald Mountain in distance on C. & N. W. Ry. / Photoed by C. C. McBride, Deadwood, S. D. - from American Memory

Gold mining company office of Two Bit. Near Deadwood, South Dakota - from American Memory.

Gold miners operate a ground sluice near Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota - from American Memory

Gold miner filing his pick AND Gold Miner in his shack, AND Shack of Old gold miner, Two Bit Creek, near Deadwood, South Dakota - from American Memory

Homestake mills and mines, Lead City, So. Dak. / Photo by Locke & McBride, Deadwood and Lead City, S. Dak., circa 1880-1900 - from American Memory


JAMES BUTLER "WILD BILL" HICKOK:

Hickok, James Butler (various ages) - from The Outlaws

Hickok, James Butler, photograph and model of the home in IL where he grew up

Hickok, James Butler - head and shoulders photo


Hickok, Mrs. James B. [Agnes Lake Thatcher], "Wild Bill's wife - from adamsmuseumandhouse.org

Hickok, Wild Bill - various photographs of current locations

Wild Bill Hickok Monument, J.B. Riordan 1891. The rock sculpture was only in existence for ten years before being chiseled away by souvenir hunters of the day - from American Memory

Hickok, "Wild Bill", Tombstone (current)


PLACES: HOUSES, HOTELS, BUILDINGS, ETC. :

Barn (old) in ghost mining town near Deadwood, South Dakota, circa 1903 - from American Memory

Bella Union Saloon - in Deadwood, unknown year

Catholic Cemetery, the burial place of Jack McCall in Yankton, S.D., in an unmarked grave - from Find-A-Grave

Chinese Fire Department in Deadwood - from South Dakota State Historical Society

Dakota Indians enroute for rations near Deadwood, South Dakota, 1877 - from American Memory

Franklin Hotel, Deadwood (old postcard) - from USGenWeb "Penny Postcards"

Gem Theatre - from Legends of America

Great Hostile Camp, largest Indian camp in the world, near Pine Ridge, S.D., Jan. 16, 1891 / photo and copyright 1891 by Grabill, 1891, Deadwood, S.D. - from American Memory

Homesteader's Sod Home, South Dakota, old postcard - from USGenWeb "Penny Postcards" web site

Homestead (old) of the Hardin family of Two Bit, near Deadwood, South Dakota circa 1903 - from American Memory

Hotel and boarding house (old) for single men at town of Two Bit, near Deadwood, South Dakota - from American Memory

Hotel in Deadwood, postcard - from USGenWeb "Penny Postcards"

House (old), a remnant of mining ghost town near Deadwood, South Dakota, before 1937 - from American Memory

Houses (old), still occupied, in the abandoned town of Terry. Near Deadwood, South Dakota, before 1937 - from American Memory [note: "Calamity" Jane died in Terry].

Mount Moriah Cemetery - current photographs - from Internment.net

Mount Moriah Cemetery - multiple photographs - from realdeadwoodpodcast.com

Scaffold on which first Indian was hanged, Deadwood S.D., circa 1891 - from American Memory

Sioux camp (view over plains) with scattered tepees, and wigwams, Camp Robinson, Red Cloud Agency, near Deadwood, South Dakota circa 1877 - from American Memory


MISCELLANEOUS PEOPLE & ANIMALS:

Berg, Mrs. Christine, former boardinghouse keeper in early days of Deadwood, South Dakota, near where she now lives - from American Memory

Black Hills Ranger Meeting, circa 1908 - from Denver Public Library [Men pose by a stone municipal building and cast iron sconces in Deadwood, South Dakota. They are: "(back row L to R) Butler, McKnob, Robert Peltz, L. F. Knieffe, August Murduck, G. F. Pollack, H. C. Neel, Wm. Poe, Fred Seals, Walter Druiidsen, Homer Reed, W. F. Hill, G. A. Doughestry, Standish Smith, (middle row L to R) ?, Frank Thomeson, David Hilton, J. F. Connor, ?, John Murdock, Nels Petersen, William Hall, L. Knowles, Arthur Lynn, Ed Hamilton, (bottom row L to R) George Smith, Capt. Smith, Joe Daley, Joe Carlon, T. Shoemaker, C. A. Ballenger, Clyde Leavitt, ?]

Brooks, General, camp near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, January 17, 1891 - from American Memory

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, poster - from Photoswest.org

Buffalo Bill's Deadwood Statecoach - from Photoswest.org

Deadwood Chinese Fire Department, 1888 - from American Memory

Chinese Hose Teams Hub-and-Hub Race in Progress, Deadwood, Dakota, July 4th, 1888 - American Memory

Horses on South Dakota Prarie, old postcard - from USGenWeb "Penny Postcards" web site

McCall, Jack - it is said there is no photograph in existence.

Miles, General, and staff viewing the largest hostile Indian camp in the U.S., near Pine Ridge, S. Dak., Jan. 16, 1891 - from American Memory

Mining, Early in the Black Hills - several photographs from Ed's Photo Home Page

Miners in Deadwood (gold miners) , circa 1880-1900 - from American Memory

Miners in Deadwood - from Deadwood.biz

Roosevelt, President Theodore, in Cheyenne 1903 and riding from Laramine to Chenenne in May 1903 - from Frontier Days

Sketches by a fan of: Dan Dority, Al Swearengen, Calamity jane, E.B. Farnum, Trixie, Sol Star, Seth Bullock, Joanie Stubbs, Wild Bill Hickok, Rev. H.W. Smith, Ellsworth, Doc Cochran and Mr. Wu [note: these sketches are of the actors who play these characters on the HBO series, and are not from historical photographs].

South Dakota, old photographs - from South Dakota State Historical Society

Utter, Charlie, and his brother Steve at the gravesite of Wild Bill in 1876 - from Digital Deadwood

Wild West Show original company, ca. 1884 - from American Memory


PREACHER HENRY WESTON SMITH:

Smith, (Preacher) Henry Weston

Smith, Preacher

Smith, Preacher, burial site and tombstones - from Find-A-Grave


STAGECOACHES:

Stagecoach - Deadwood - Buffalo Bill's - from American Memory - [Stagecoach used in an act of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In the act, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and a group of scouts rescue the coach after an attack. The stagecoach is pulled by three teams of mules. Two drivers sit on the buckboard.]

Stagecoach - Deadwood & Wild Bill Cody Lookalike - circa 1885-1900, from American Memory - [A "Buffalo Bill" Cody lookalike sits on the buckboard of the Deadwood Stage pulled by two teams of mules. The man wears wears a buckskin coat with tassles, riding boots that reach his knees, and a hat with its brim curved slightly upward]

Stagecoach - Deadwood & Group - circa 1894 - from American Memory - [John Y. Nelson lies on the top of the Deadwood Stagecoach while on tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn, New York. John Higby (possibly spelled Highby) drives the coach with Judge William T. Beck of the Colorado Supreme Court seated next to him. Ella Hoyle Beck sits inside the coach with two other women and a man. The Becks helped raise Nate Salsbury, owner and manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, in Denver after he was orphaned at age 8. Teams of mules pull the coach, used in the show during an act in which William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody rescues the coach from an attack]

Stagecoach - Deadwood - Original Spearfish, photo circa 1930-1950- from Denver Public Library

Stagecoach - Deadwood & John Y. Nelson circa 1885-1900 from American Memory [John Y. Nelson, a scout and driver of the Deadwood Stagecoach, sits on the back of the coach holding his rifle. A driver sits on the buckboard and holds the reins for the three teams of mules. A young Native American, possibly one of Nelson's Sioux children, sits inside the coach. The coach is stopped in front of a backdrop with a landscape scene painted on it]

Deadwood Stagecoach in 1884 - from Cheyene-Deadwood Stage

Deadwood Stagecoach & Colonel William F. Cody - from Cheyene-Deadwood Stage

Stagecoach - Deadwood - on the trail, circa 1870-1885 - from American Memory

Stagecoach - Deadwood - 1895 - from American Memory

Stagecoach (Medora to Deadwood) - from North Dakota State Archives

Stagecoach (Deadwood) circa 1870-1890 - from American Memory

Stagecoach (Deadwood) of 1876 Old Silver Top - from American Memory

Stagecoach (Deadwood) 1876 - from American Memory


SOLOMON "SOL" STAR:

Star, Solomon "Sol" and the Star Bullock Hardware Store - from adamsmuseumandhouse.org


HBO: Deadwood Photographs and Mini-Movies (CalamityDan.com)


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