Black and white studio photograph of John Anderson, photographer. On the back of a copy of a print, John's wife wrote: "This is John when he was about 20 years old. He had been out in the Bad Lands for a week making pictures and had not shaved. This was before we were married." Although unshaven, Anderson wears a three-piece suit, tie and hat.
John Anderson was a photographer who worked primarily at Fort Niobrara in Nebraska and on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Born in Sweden in 1869, he came to this country with his parents, eventually settling in Cherry County, Nebraska, in 1884. John was sent back to Pennsylvania to be educated and it was during this time he became familiar with photography. By 1887 he was working as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara, near Valentine, Nebraska. In the early 1890s he was working as a clerk in the Rosebud Reservation trading post operated by Colonel Charles P. Jordan.
