Hunting party with dogs and game, Big Bottom, Indian Territory — Underwood & Underwood / Strohmeyer & Wyman

Men and boys stand and sit in rows outside canvas tents in a wooded clearing. Several hold long guns, and dogs sit among the foreground figures. A deer hangs head-down beside a tree, with additional game and hides displayed near the tent entrance. A man wearing a light apron and head cloth sits prominently at the front.

The front caption reads “Our Camp in Indian Territory.” The reverse supplies the more specific identification, “A tempory Camp in the “Big Bottom,” Indian Territory, U. S. A.” The card thus names the locality as Big Bottom but gives no nearby settlement or other landmark to locate the camp more precisely. None of the participants is named.

The publisher’s imprint reads “Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. / New York, London, Toronto-Canada. Ottawa-Kansas.” The opposite margin carries “Works and Studios / Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.” These are business addresses, not locations of the camp. Beneath the caption is the separate credit “Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman”; 1899 is the stated copyright year, not an independently established exposure date.

The paired photographs have rounded upper corners and are mounted on a gray card. The reverse repeats the camp identification in French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian. A faint pencil notation at the lower right reads “[?] [?] 29,” with only the final number securely legible. Lettering near the tent peak appears in both photographs but cannot be resolved.