© Article by Author and Historian Mark Msanaski.
Original cabinet card photograph of Sundance and Ethel, taken on February 3, 1901, at Joseph B. DeYoung’s Photographic Gallery in New York, before they set sail for South America. Copies were sent to family and close friends as a fond farewell.
The original photograph came from an album donated to the Hot Springs County Museum, by the estate of Minnie Brown, labeled Vol. 4 – the years 1894-1908, shortly after her death in 1940. It wasn’t until decades later that the Museum would realize the importance of the rare photograph. It is one of only three known to be in existence.
On the back of the photograph Minnie Brown’s own handwriting reads: “This gentleman is one of our real gentlemen who knew how to get the money – and not cripple or kill – Add’ So America taken in New York – before he sailed – to never return.
