Photographs of Kiowa and Comanche Indians

Description

Title: Photographs of Kiowa and Comanche Indians
Creator: Irwin, J. E.
Published / Created: [ca. 1898].
Publication Place: Chickasha, I.T.
Publisher: Irwin
Abstract: Photographs principally of Kiowa and Comanche Indians, many taken near Ft. Sill and Anadarko, Indian Territory. There are individual portraits, including those of chiefs (Lone Wolf, Quanah Parker) and medicine men, as well as of family groupings and children, and views of meat butchering. There are also photographs of Apache, Caddo, Wichita, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians, including a portrait of Geronimo. Accompanied by a photograph of five military men in Augusta, Georgia, dated 1898
Description: Some photographs carry imprint: Overstreet Studio, Chickasha, I.T.
Manuscript captions on verso.
Container list available.
Copy prints available.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery Inc. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1997.
Extent: 33 photographic prints (in 2 boxes) : 14 x 9 cm. on mounts 18.7 x 13.3 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Copy prints in box 2, folders 31-33 not digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA Photos 224
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Container / Volume: Box 1

Genre: Portraits
Pictorial works
Photographic prints
Gelatin silver prints
Material: b & w ;
Subject (Geographic): Anadarko (Okla.)
Chickasha (Okla.)
Fort Sill (Okla.)
Subject (Name): Geronimo, 1829-1909
Lone Wolf, Kiowa Indian
Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Caddo Indians
Comanche Indians
Kiowa Indians
Subjects: Geronimo, 1829-1909 > Portraits
Lone Wolf, Kiowa Indian > Portraits
Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911
Indians of North America > Pictorial works
Caddo Indians > Pictorial works
Comanche Indians > Pictorial works
Kiowa Indians > Pictorial works
Anadarko (Okla.)
Chickasha (Okla.)
Fort Sill (Okla.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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Citation: J. E. Irwin, Photographs of Kiowa and Comanche Indians. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.