William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

Image: Tom Isbell, seven cowboys, and lady dwarf from Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Tom Isbell (far left) and seven other cowboys, all but one dressed in woolly chaps, stand with a lady midget in a dark hat and dress in front of wall of wood planks at Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Handwritten in pencil on mat back "Tom Isbell."

Title: Tom Isbell, seven cowboys, and lady dwarf from Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Creator: unknown

Keywords: Wild west shows Dwarfs Entertainers Sideshows Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Cowboys Isbell, Thomas Jefferson, 1875-1955

Date: circa 1900

Type: photograph

Format: 6 x 4.25 in b&w photograph Master scanned at 16 bit grayscale, 1000dpi, scaled 100% in size by Mack Frost with a Kodak (Creo) iQsmart3 flatbed scanner. Image processed using Adobe PhotoShop CS and CS3 software.

ID: wfc.img.pho.p.69.1510

Source: Buffalo Bill Online Archive MS6 William F. Cody Collection

Rights: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Funding and support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Wyoming Community Foundation, Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources, the Dellenback Family Foundation, Adrienne & John Mars, and Naoma Tate & the Family of Hal Tate.

Banner image: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.A.; Original Buffalo Bill Museum Collection, P.69.118

The William F. Cody Archive, Buffalo Bill Center of the West and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Published under a Creative Commons License.

The William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

Image: Tom Isbell, seven cowboys, and lady dwarf from Buffalo Bill's Wild West