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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 799909" data-attributes="member: 50197">Well, he was working as a cowboy there when he was drafted for WWI. They sent everyone home after he had been there a few weeks due to the Spanish flu. Everyone in the family says this was taken around the time he was drafted. Kodak introduce the Brownie in 1900, so it's quite possible that was the camera used. This ad is from 1900. I know that family oral histories can often be wrong, but we do have official copies of his draft paperwork which shows him working at a ranch outside of Douglas. Not sure of his timeline after being released by the Army, but his daughter insists this is where and when this picture was taken. She visited the ranch with him later in his life.<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20th-c-art/introduction-20c-art/a/an-introduction-to-photography-in-the-early-20th-century" target="_blank">Intro to early 20th century photography</a><img src="https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-perseus-images/f22e69853f3f1715ba03edaec9883749958c2882.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 799909, member: 50197"] Well, he was working as a cowboy there when he was drafted for WWI. They sent everyone home after he had been there a few weeks due to the Spanish flu. Everyone in the family says this was taken around the time he was drafted. Kodak introduce the Brownie in 1900, so it's quite possible that was the camera used. This ad is from 1900. I know that family oral histories can often be wrong, but we do have official copies of his draft paperwork which shows him working at a ranch outside of Douglas. Not sure of his timeline after being released by the Army, but his daughter insists this is where and when this picture was taken. She visited the ranch with him later in his life. [URL='https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20th-c-art/introduction-20c-art/a/an-introduction-to-photography-in-the-early-20th-century']Intro to early 20th century photography[/URL] [IMG]https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-perseus-images/f22e69853f3f1715ba03edaec9883749958c2882.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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