'Alone with the Past'
<p>Medicine Owl and Dawn Mist souvenir postcard, courtesy of Kramer Gallery Inc.</p>
<p>Photo courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society.</p>
<p>Blackfeet Indians at Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park. Photo courtesy of Kramer Gallery Inc.</p>
<p>American Indians along Swiftcurrent Lake with Many Glacier Hotel in the background. Photo courtesy of Kramer Gallery Inc.</p>
<p>American Indians are pictured en route to Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park in this vintage Roland Reed photo.</p>
<p>“Waiting for the Hunters.” Photo courtesy of Kramer Gallery Inc.</p>
<p>Curley Bear, courtesy of Kramer Gallery Inc., St. Paul, Minn.</p>
<p>Charlie Russell portrait, courtesy of Doc and Leila Losik, Angles Camp, Calif.</p>
Most of these images by early day photographer Royal W. “Roland” Reed were taken in the early 1900s.
They are part of the 244-page book, “Alone with the Past: The Life and Photographic Art of Roland W. Reed” that will be published in June by Afton Historical Society Press.
Reed was among a group of pictorialists — photographers who set out to document what they saw as a vanishing culture of American Indian tribes.