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The original black and white glass negative of Quanah Parker's granddaughter is credited to BAE GN 01748A 06299800, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Folder 12

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Folder 12

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This is a photograph of Quanah Parker and his oldest son taken on back porch of Quanah's home with Mrs. Wenner and two boys. Quanah's 21 year old son was a graduate of Carlyle and eventually died of tuberculosis. Folder 12

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Photograph of Quanah's fifth and favorite wife, Too-nice and her little son at the back of the porch of the Parker home in the Wichita Mountains. It took the photographer Wenner two hours getting those being photographed in focus. Wenner took this photo when Too-nice came out to get a drink. He photographed the scene and enlarged the photograph. Wenner went on to use this photograph and many others in newspaper stories and at the World's Fair in St. Louis. Folder 12

Description This is a photograph of Quanah Parker's little son by his last and favorite wife, Too-nice. Photographer Fred Wenner's little boys were used a decoys to get the others outside in the camera's frame. Too-nice and the child next to her began dodging behind the porch posts before a good photograph could be taken. According to photographer Wenner, "Indian women were always against having their pictures taken, the men never." Folder 12 ...