Title   Wild West Show cooks
Call Number   NS-831
Summary   Cooks for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show pour water into iron kettles over cooking fires using buckets at the ends of poles. Also shows a canvas tent and piled logs. The Wild West Show reportedly employed seven cooks, two pastry chefs and two butchers to prepare three meals a day for about 700 people.
Date   [1901?]
Collection   Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show ; album no. 8
Notes   Vintage photographic print.
  Title supplied by cataloger.
  "Salsbury Collection Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Rehearsal Pictures 1901" typed on first page of album.
  Photographer's stamp "Photographed by John C. Hemment, 108 Fulton St., New York" on back of photoprint.
  Photoprint has "95" handwritten in middle left side and on back.
  Image also identified as "F8580."
Photo Materials   1 photoprint ; 15 x 24 cm. (5 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Condition   Upper right corner of photoprint has several creases.
Copyright   Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also   Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.
  Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
  Chefs 1900-1910.
  Cookery 1900-1910.
  Wild west shows 1880-1920.
  Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.
  Imaged.
  Photographic prints.
URL   http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00105831+NS-831

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