Views of people and camps at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
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Description
- Title
- Views of people and camps at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
- Creator
- Northwestern Photographic Co.
- Contributor
- Trager, George E.
- Published / Created
- 1890-1891.
- Abstract
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Images created by George Trager and distributed by the Northwestern Photographic Company of views of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, including portraits of Dakota Indians and United States Army personnel, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890-1891
Views of Dakota Indian encampments, include the Camp of Chief Fast Thunder and an overview of the United States Army disarming Dakota Indians on January 21, 1891. Other general views include Dakota Indians waiting to receive government rations on the platform of the reservation commissary and an interior of a frame house built for Chief Red Cloud in 1879
Portraits of Native Americans include a posed portrait of Little Chief, a Northern Cheyenne Indian, which depicts him giving his rifle to James H. Cook. Other discrete portraits of Dakota Indians include Young Man Afraid and Big Road in front of tipis, and an undernourished Dakota Indian woman recuperating in a tipi. Group portraits of Dakota Indians on horseback include Big Talk, Crazy Bear, Good Lance, High Hawk, Hollow Wood, Stinking Bear, and Two Strike
Views of United States Army encampments include the Second Infantry, the Sixth Cavalry, and the Seventh Cavalry
Images related to the Wounded Knee Massacre Include views the battlefield that show frozen bodies of Dakota Indians on the snow covered ground with the civilian burial party in January 1891
A group portrait of General Nelson A. Miles and his staff on January 13, 1891, includes Dallas Bache, Frank D. Baldwin, Sydney A. Cloman, Henry C. Corbin, Ezra P. Ewers, Charles F. Humphrey, Francis J. Ives, Jacob Ford Kent, John S. Mallory, Marion P. Maus, and Francis E. Pierce
A group portrait of ten men in March 1891 includes five Dakota Indians, consisting of Big Talk, Good Lance, Kicking Bear, Short Bull, and Two Strike, as well as Major John Burke, the press manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; Frank Grouard, an Indian Scout in the United States Army; and John A. McDonough, a reporter for the New York World newspaper
- Description
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George E. Trager began photographing army officers and Dakota Indians at the Pine Ridge Reservation in March, 1890. He later formed a partnership with Joseph Ford to sell photographs of Pine Ridge, including images following the Wounded Knee Massacre, and founded the Northwestern Photographic Company in January, 1891. In March 1891 they gained a half interest in Wilbur Springs, a source of mineral water, which they advertised as a cure for epilepsy on the verso of their photographs.
Verso of two photographs carry advertisements for the Northwestern Photographic Co.
Verso of six photographs carry advertisements for the Northwestern Photographic Co. and Trager & Ford's epilepsy cure.
Captions inscribed in negatives. - Provenance
- Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc. on the the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund and Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1997-2008.
- Extent
- 18 photographic prints : 11.5 x 19.4 cm. and smaller on mounts 12.6 x 20.3 cm. and smaller.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA Photos 221
- Related Resource Online
- View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pictorial works
Albumen prints
Card photographs (photographs)
Photographic prints - Material
- b & w ;
- Subject (Geographic)
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South Dakota
Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) - Subject (Name)
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Ford, Joseph, fl. 1890-1892.
Trager, George E.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company
Northwestern Photographic Co.
United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th. - Subject (Topic)
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Dakota Indians
Indians of North America
Indian reservations
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890 - Subjects
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Ford, Joseph, fl. 1890-1892
Trager, George E.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company > Pictorial works
Northwestern Photographic Co.
United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th > Pictorial works
Dakota Indians > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > South Dakota > Pictorial works
Indian reservations > South Dakota > Pine Ridge > Pictorial works
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890 > Pictorial works
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) > Pictorial works
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Northwestern Photographic Co., Views of People and Camps at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4141159
- Object ID (OID)
- 2038372