From 1 June - 31 October 1898 the Trans-Mississippi Exposition was held in Omaha, Nebraska and Frank A. Rinehart was the official photographer for it. One of the attractions was an "Indian Village" where there were daily activities and these were photographed and many portraits of native americans were taken. Some if not most of the photographs were taken by Adolph F. Muhr who assisted Rinehart but the photographs are copyrighted 1899-1900 by Rinehardt as he was the owner of the studio and the publisher. In in the summer of 1899 Rinehart and Muhr photographed the Crow Reservation in Montana and the Oglala Lakota Reservation in South Dakota. Distinguishing which photographs were taken by Muhr and which by Rinehart will take further clarification.
Adolph Muhr later worked as studio manager for Edward S. Curtis in Seattle where he was responsible for producing the superb "gold-tone" prints for Curtis's monumental volumes The North American Indian.
Adolph F. Muhr
Portraits
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Genealogy of Adolph F. Muhr
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