Frederick Monsen, a Norwegian-American photographer born in 1865, documented Native American life and the American Southwest from 1886-1911 with remarkable spontaneity and pathos. His work, utilizing Kodak's innovative handheld camera technology, captured candid moments of various tribes and settlers, though most of his collection was lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-the-old-west

#historicalphotography #nativeamericans #americansouthwest #culturaldocumentation #anthropology