Rare Photographs of Quanah Parker (1845-1911) and the Opening of Indian Territories
ca 1890
group of three anonymous albumen photographs, mounted on cardstock includes: an image depicting Parker with Congressional Medal of Honor winner and Indian Agent Frank Baldwin, chief clerk at agency J.D. Leonard, interpreters, Comanche and Kiowa chiefs, and Indian Police at a tent encampment; Parker wears a large ribbon on his chest, 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches 
 
 a boudoir photograph of Parker wearing the same ribbon, a man believed to be J.D. Leonard, Agency Clerk and a group of Native American with the Wichita Mountains in the distance a mounted image with inked title Kiowa-Comanche Delegation. Opening of Cheyenne & Arapahoe Reservation, 5 x 6-3/4 inches
 
These images likely were taken between September and October 1892 when the Leonard Commission began negotiations with Cheyenne, Comanche and Kiowa leaders.