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I found the “Winchester “Trapper” / Baby Carbines – Practical Tool or Romantic Myth?” post from a few days ago really interesting.  I understand that period photos of Trapper models seem to be rare.

Inspired by the above and being at house arrest due to the cold, I decided I would find at least one period photo of a trapper holding a Winchester Trapper. I searched (online) and looked at hundreds of period photos, trappers, hunters, gold prospectors, explorers, guides, log cabins, mining camp, logging camps, prison guards, etc., both in the US and Canada, but not luck.

Lever Winchesters are literally everywhere, but not the short ones, as far as I can tell.

Then I remember that I read that many 1892 Trappers were sent to the plantations in South America, so I started looking at period photos from South America, using Google translator for Portuguese and Spanish key words.  Little luck there too, except for this one photo.

Photo taken in southern Brazil sometime between 1912 and 1916, during the Contestado war, several farmers seem to be armed with short Winchester model 1892. I think I see at least four or five short SRC.

Under the picture it reads: “Com armas de fogo, fazendeiros e soldados ajudaram a silenciar os redutos dos rebeldes – With firearms, farmers and soldiers helped to silence the rebel strongholds”.

From Wikipedia: The Contestado War (Portuguese: Guerra do Contestado), broadly speaking, was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state’s police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

Perhaps it is a known photo to Winchester collectors, but I’ve never seen it before.

Here is the link:  https://www.clicrbs.com.br/sites/swf/dc_mariazinha/guerra-do-contestado.html