1. ERWIN SMITH [Goodnight/JA Ranch Longhorn with rope around left horn hills cattle in background] 1908, 4.8x6.9" Silver Collodion Print, top 1/2 of page ASG# EES/1576-1

2. ERWIN SMITH Buffalo bull and herd on the Charles Goodnight Ranch in Texas. Charles Goodnight was associated with the JA Ranch in the beginning, later acquired his own holdings. Goodnight Ranch, Texas, 4.8x6.8" Silver Collodion Print ASG# EES/1576-2 Ref: Amon Carter Museum Erwin Smith Collection LC-S6-176 Goodnight Buffalo in ink top left of print. Bottom of page

3. ERWIN SMITH [ A Herd Cattalo in a field] 1908, 4.8x6.8" Silver Collodion Print ASG# EES/1576 -3
Print 4 is on 1/2 album page

4. ERWIN SMITH A herd of "cattalo", cross between buffalo (American bison) and cattle that were developed by Colonel Goodnight on the plains of Texas. Goodnight Ranch, Texas 1908,4.6x6.6"" Silver Collodion Print EES/1574 Ref: Amon Carter Museum Erwin Smith Collection LC-S6-860. Will Rogers postcard verso.

Album pages from Erwin Smith's album of Laton Huffman prints - the first group of three are mounted back to back on a light white album page with Postcards of Geronimo and Black Bird below the Buffalo Bill print
Erwin E. Smith (b. 1886, Honey Grove, Texas; d. 1947, Bonham, Texas) As a teenager Smith became a skilled cowboy who constantly sketched scenes and read. Eventually, he combined his passion for art and western ranch life in photography. He began publishing images of cowboy life in 1905. He studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then studied photography and art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From 1905 to 1915 he was active photographing many ranching and cowboy outfits primarily in Texas and New Mexico, illustrating articles, and making photographic albums. He sporadically pursued these endeavors throughout his life while being involved with ranching and farming. Smith worked in gelatin and collodion silver prints ranging in size from 2.25 x 3.25" to 12 x 16" and slightly larger enlargements. His work is extremely rare.

EES/1576 -1 Fair spots of emulsion loss lower left corner cracked, dark print
EES/1576 -2 Very Good minor wear
EES/1576 -3 Fair moderate edge wear small emulsion loss top right lower left
EES/1574 Good rich collodion print a few cracks and small spots of emulsion loss