Ramsey County History – Summer 2015: “Long-Ago Snapshots: When Sitting Bull Was Photographed in St. Paul”

Long-Ago Snapshots: When Sitting Bull Was Photographed in St. Paul
Author: Leo J. Harris

Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota chief, visited St. Paul in 1884 and was photographed at the studio of Alfred Palmquist and Peder Jurgens. This article concentrates on what we know about Sitting Bull’s experience of being photographed in St. Paul, the importance of these photos in what they tell us about the Lakota leader, and the work of photographers who had studios in the city in the 1880s.
PDF of Harris article