Photographs of Indians selected from the collection in the possession of the U.S. Geological survey of the territories / Prof. F.V. Hayden in charge. Representing 70 different tribes

Album of photographs of Indians of North America assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The images in the photographs were originally created ca. 1868-1876, and consist primarily of portraiture of male delegates to the United States with occasional images of women and children. The images were created for ethnographic portfolios of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England. A few images show individuals with mixed descent and interpreters

The broad geographical regions represented by individuals in the album include Eastern States, Great Lakes Region, Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, New Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Southern States

Portraits represent various tribal groups, including Apache Indians, Arapaho Indians, Arikara Indians, Bannock Indians, Brotherton Indians, Brulé Indians, Caddo Indians, Cherokee Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Chickasaw Indians, Choctaw Indians, Comanche Indians, Creek Indians, Crow Indians, Dakota Indians, Delaware Indians, Fox Indians, Iowa Indians, Isleta Indians, Jicarilla Indians, Kansa Indians, Keeche Indians, Kiowa Apache Indians, Kiowa Indians, Mandan Indians, Mdewakanton Indians , Miami Indians, Modoc Indians, Navajo Indians, Nez Percé Indians, Northern Arapaho Tribe, Oglala Indians, Ojibwa Indians, Omaha Indians, Oohenonpa Indians, Osage Indians, Oto Indians, Ottawa Indians, Pawnee Indians, Pima Indians, Ponca Indians, Potawatomi Indians, Santee Indians , Sauk Indians, Seminole Indians, Seneca Indians, Shahaptian Indians, Shawnee Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Sihasapa Indians, Sisseton Indians , Stockbridge Indians, Tawakoni Indians, Tohono O'odham Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, Western Apache Indians, Wichita Indians, Winnebago Indians, Yankton Indians, Yanktonai Indians, and Yuma Indians

Exterior images consist primarily of informal portraiture, as well as depicting residences and settlements, including the Crow Indian Agency in Montana, 1871; the Pawnee Indian School and buildings at the Pawnee Reserve, Loup Fork, Nebraska, 1871; and a Bannock Indian camp near Fort Hall, Idaho, 1872

An image of two men depicts a seated Dakota Indian, Red Cloud (Ma-Kpe-Ah-Lou-Tah), shaking hands with William Blackmore, May 1872

Individual photographers with images represented in the album include Charles Milton Bell, Thomas Martin Easterly, Alexander Gardner, Benjamin Gurney, Jeremiah Gurney, William Henry Jackson, James Earle McClees, Antonio Zeno Shindler, Henry Ulke, Julius Ulke, Lee Ulke, Julian Vannerson, and Orloff R. Westmann