Ralph R. Doubleday

Ralph Russell Doubleday (July 4, 1881 – June 30, 1958)^[1] was a rodeo photographer in the United States.^[2] Rodeo historian and promoter Foghorn Clancy said Doubleday was the "undisputed World's Champion Rodeo Photographer".^[2] His work is featured at the Dickinson Museum Center including the museum's Guide to the Ralph R. Doubleday Rodeo Photographs and the traveling exhibit Doubleday's Cowgirls: Women in Rodeo.^[3][2]

Ralph R. Doubleday and his camera in 1947 (Lakeland, Florida).

Doubleday traveled the U.S. for 40 years photographing rodeos and making picture postcards. He ran a photo studio in Dickinson from 1914 to 1920. It became the Presthus and then the Horstman Studio.^[3]

Doubleday was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1988.^[4]

See also

• Walter S. Bowman