James Brownlee Rankin photograph collection: Charles M. Russell circa 1875-1939

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James Brownlee Rankin photograph collection: Charles M. Russell circa 1875-1939

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James Brownlee Rankin, a New York and San Bernardino, California, teacher and historian, collected information concerning Montana artist Charles M. Russell in preparation for writing a Russell biography and an illustrated catalog of his work. The photograph collection includes a few views of Rankin, but primarily consists of photographs of Charles M. Russell, Russell's studio and residences, the Russell family and their friends, and people who knew Russell or collected his work.

1 box; 138 photographic prints and 1 tintype; 1 nitrate film negative; 3 copy negatives (2 safety and 1 nitrate film)

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Montana Historical Society Research CenterPhotograph Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6368810

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Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926

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American cowboy and artist of the American West. From the description of Photographs, {ca. 1910}. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435693 American painter and sculptor of western scenes and subjects. From the description of Ephemera, 1900-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497326 From the guide to the Charles M. Russell ephemera, 1900-1964, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Russell, Charles Marion, artist, cowboy (Mar. 19, 1864-Oct. 24, 1...

Russell family.

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Russell, Nancy Cooper, -1940

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Nancy Cooper was born May 4, 1878, in Mansville, Kentucky. She married Montana artist Charles M. Russell in 1896. Nancy Russell died on May 23, 1940, in Los Angeles County, California. From the description of Nancy Cooper Russell records, 1940. (Montana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 76934834 ...

Rankin, James Brownlee, 1900-1962

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James Brownlee Rankin was born in Denver, Colorado, January 31, 1900, the son of Reverend James Doig Rankin and Daisy Meloy Rankin. Rankin's father had been assigned to Denver to begin a mission. Eventually, he was to build and be pastor of the United Methodist Church in that city. Rankin and his sister attended schools in Denver, but soon were sent to their parents' original home, Chicago, to study in that city's Latin schools. At the age of ten, James Rankin and his sister were se...