Colored Pictures from History

Usually when we think of historical photographs, we don't think of them being in color since cameras and photography wasn't as advanced as we have today.

'Here's a list of 24 Historical Photographs of well-known figures, people and history of the American Frontier. '

1.Billy the Kid playing cards


This is a rare picture of Billy the kid and his gang playing cards and drinking whiskey. this tin-type (a small photograph) is one of the few alleged photographs of him. This was allegedly taken in 1877 when he would've been around 17-18 years old.

3.Alfred Sully


Alfred Sully Born in 1820 was a military officer that was involved in the Indian and American civil-war, He was one of the famous soldiers of the American frontier. He was the son of famous English-American painter Thomas Sully where he got his artistic skill from. He was a chief quartermaster of the US troupes in Monterey, California where he fought in the Mexican-American war. one of his famous artworks was a painting of a ranch owned by the Californio peoples he drew while still living there. He married a Mexican woman named Manuela Antonia Jimeno who was a relative of the Del la Guerra family, She died at the age of 17 after their son Thomas died of birth complications. He was reposted to Fort Pierre Nebraska territory where Sully remarried a French-Yankton-Indian woman from the Yankton Sioux tribe where he had a daughter named Mary Sully (whos Indian name was Akicita Win). Sully died in 1879 and his last wife was a British woman named Sophia Henrietta palmer that he met in Manhattan New York.

In this picture, Sully is wearing his Blue Civil war uniform and he is approximately in his middle aged years.

4.Cattle Annie and Little Britches


You may know Cattle Annie and Little Britches from the 1981 movie Cattle Annie and Little Britches but the two actually exist in real life.

Cattle Annie (Born; Anna Emmaline McDoulet) was a female Wild west outlaw born in Kansas in 1881. Anna moved to Coyville Kansas and while growing up, she worked as a Hotel Dishwasher. At 12, she moved to the Osage Reservation in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she committed life of crime at 13 with her friend known as Little Britches where they roamed across the Indian Territory. They stole horses, sole whiskey to the Indians and Little Britches stole and wore men's clothing. Historians believed that they were involved with the Doolin Gang. U.S. Marshal Steve Burke captured Annie and Britches trying to escape through a window, Britches had an altercation with the lawmen and the two were put into custody. Annie was sentenced to a mental facility in Kansas. It was unknown what happened with Little Britches on the other hand. She allegedly warned the correctional officers that if she were to go back to Oklahoma, she'll go back to her criminal ways. Annie died in 1978 at 95 and her spouse was Robert Frost whom she divorced. She remarried Whitmore Roach.

In the picture, Annie is seen wearing a dark blue dress with possibly a Winchester riffle in her left hand. Little Britches is seen wearing Men's clothing with a black shirt, blue denim pants and a gunholster to her chest.

5. Civil War Era Woman
This picture here is of a woman from the American Civil war era wearing a long purple dress and smiling for the camera. It was usually odd to see women from that century smiling, especially since it was hard for most people to stand still for a long period of time.

Most family members that were relatives to the soldiers that participated in the civil war were often filled with grief given that when they participated in battle they were most likely young and the most likely to get killed, most often, Most often they would never see their family member again.

Women didn’t have much rights back then, Especially in the battlefield, and their only job was taking care of the injured soldiers as nurses.

6. Theodrick Carter


Theodrick “Tod” Carter was born on March 24, 1840, in Franklin, Tennessee. He was enlisted in the Civil War in Sumner county. He was enlisted as Captain of the Quartermaster Department. On November 23, 1863, He was taken as a Prisoner in Johnson Island, Ohio. He escaped by jumping through a train and made his way to Dalton, Georgia to rejoin the 20th Tennessee. The Confederate soldiers raided his hometown, Captain Carter and his men surged the house, but before he could reach it, Carter was shot in the head and injured badly. Carter was found by his parents and was taken back home. He died later witnessed by his parents and his friends.

Carter was seen as a young, good looking man by the looks of this picture.

10. Annie Oakley


Picture of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley looking sideways to her right.

Phoebe Ann Mosey was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. She was the sixth of nine children. Annie began trapping at an extremely young age. She began to shoot and hunt at age eight to support her siblings and her widowed mother.

Annie's carrier began at the age of 15 when she arranged a shooting match between Frank E. Butler an irish immigrant. The hotelier arranged a shooting match between Butler and the 15-year-old Annie, saying, "The last opponent Butler expected was a five-foot-tall 15-year-old girl named Annie. After missing his 25th shot, Butler eventually lost his bet.

Annie joined the Buffalo Bill show and was given the nickname "Little Sure Shot" or Watanya Cicilla by Lakota performer Sitting Bull and public advertisements. Annie performed for Queen Victoria, King Umberto I of Italy and President Marie François Sadi Carnot of France.

Annie died in 1926 aged 66 of pernicious anemia in Greenville, Ohio. but some accounts list her death as being an train accident.

Annie is seen wearing a gray hat with a small star on it, a blue uniform with a white tie. As seen by her physical appearance, she has brown hair and blue eyes and is seen wearing small earrings.

11. Big Nose Kate


Big Nose Kate was born Mary Katherine Horony on November 9th, 1849 in Ersukviar Hungary, The second daughter of Hungarian Physician and teacher Mihaili Horony and Kaitlyn Buldazar. In 1860, Dr Horony's wife, Katharina and his children left Hungary for the United States arriving in New York city on the German ship Bremen. The Horony family settled in a predominantly German area of Davenport Iowa in 1862. Harony and his wife both died expectantly in 1865. Mary Katherine and her younger siblings were placed in the home of her mother's brother-in-law Gustav Susamil. 5-years later, They were left in the care of attorney Otto Smith.

Kate's Saloon in Tombstone, originally called "The Grand Hotel" was built in 1880. The McLaurie brothers stayed there the night before the gunfight at the O.K Corral. In 1876, Kate moved to Fort Griffin, Texas where in 1887, She met Doc Holliday. Doc said at one point that he considered Kate as his Intellectual equal. The couple later married in Valdosta, Georgia. They traveled to Trinidad, Colorado and then to Las Vegas, New Mexico where they lived there for two years. Her husband Holliday worked as a Dentist and ran a Saloon on center street by night. Kate occasionally worked at a Dance-Hall in Santa Fe. Doc and Kate later met up again with Wyatt Earp and his brothers on their way to the Arizona Territory. Virgil Earp had already been in Prescott and persuaded his brothers to move to Tombstone. Holliday was making money at the gambling tables in Prescott, While Kate worked as a Prostitute in the upstairs rooms in the palace saloon.

Appearance wise- Kate was shown to have brown curly-hair, and dark blue eyes. she wore various Victorian outfits and the one she is currently wearing in the photo is a Purple dress with an open shirt with a collar that appears to look like a blue oval necklace. It may or not be shown, but it is also seen that Kate is wearing small earrings.

19.Bonnie and Clyde


Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow were gangsters from Texas that were known for robbing small stores and gas stations. They are believed to murder nine officers and civilians. They were eventually murdered in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States caused by an ambush of police.

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas. Her mother was a divorcée that worked as a seamstress. Bonnie wrote The Story of Suicide Sal and The Trail’s End.

Bonnie married Roy Thornton at age 16 and the two dropped out. Their relationship was marred by Thornton’s run-ins with the law.

After the Marriage, Bonnie moved back with her mother and worked as a waitress.

Clyde Champion Barrow was born in 1909 in a poor farming family. He was the fifth of seven children of Henry and Cumie Barrow. The family moved to Dallas in the early 1920s. They lived under a wagon until they had enough money for a tent.

Barrow was arrested at age 17 after running away from a police officer during a confrontation about not returning a car on time. His second arrest was with his brother after stealing turkeys. He cracked safes, Robbed stores and stole cars.

He met Parker by a mutual friend and spent time together while Parker’s husband was still in prison.

Clyde was sent to a Prison Farm at 21. He escaped using a weapon Parker smuggled to him.