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Image: Broncho Bill and family

Portrait of Broncho Bill (William Irving) with his wife, Ella, and son, Bennie. Bill wears a hat, kerchief, beaded vest, button shirt, pistol on a gun belt, and beaded moccasins. Ella wears a fringed and beaded buckskin dress. Bennie wears an embroidered shirt, chaps with a pistol tuck in at waist and moccasins. Backdrop of painted trees in background. Typed caption on mat, "Broncho Bill (and Family.) Cow Boy Interpreter of the Sioux. — Buffalo Bill's Wild West." Typed caption on verso, "Anderson Photographer, 785 Broadway, Cor. of 10th, New York."
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