Schwemberger, George Charles, 1867-1931 Schwemberger, Simeon
Published / Created:
c1905-c1906.
Call Number:
WA Photos 28
Image Count:
53
Abstract:
Photographs of Navajo medicine and sweat lodge ceremonies, including views of the construction of the lodges, preparations for the ceremonies, sandpaintings, and participants. There are also photographs of family groups, the ruins in Canyon de Chelly, sheep and goat herds, and of foot and horse racing.
Description:
George Schwemberger joined the Franciscan order as a lay brother, adopting the name Simeon and moving to the mission at St. Michael's, Arizona in 1901. In late 1907 he left St. Michael's to open a photo gallery in Gallup, New Mexico. and Individual photographs are 11.6 x 16.6 cm., with copyright statement inscribed. Letterpress or manuscript captions accompany each photograph, 32 of which form a numbered series with descriptive captions.
Publisher:
Simeon Schwemberger,
Subject (Geographic):
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies, and Sweatbaths--Pictorial works.--aat
Photographs of the Hubbell Trading Post, Navajo Indian children and adults, Roman Hubbell and his wife, other people around the post, log hogans, a military camp, and the Grand Canyon. With inscribed calling card of the first Mrs. Roman Hubbell laid in.
Description:
82 prints are 9 x 14.5 cm., 7 prints are 8.2 x 8.2 cm. and smaller and are laid in loose., Blank album pages not digitized., Photographer(s) unknown., and The Hubbell Trading Post was operated by the Hubbell family at Ganado, Arizona. John Lorenzo Hubbell established the trading post in 1876; his son Roman Hubbell was active in operating the trading post from 1908 until his death in 1957.
Subject (Geographic):
Ganado (Ariz.)--Pictorial works and Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Ganado, Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Hubbell, Alma Dorr--Portraits and Hubbell, Roman--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, and Navajo Indians--Portraits
Photographs of the Apache Indian Reservation in San Carlos, Arizona, including views of the new guardhouse, a scouts camp, and Indian children at school.
Description:
Manuscript captions on verso of some mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
San Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians--Pictorial works, Indian reservations--Arizona--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Arizona, and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Also included are portraits of school children at the mission school at Unalaska, and of native Aleutes [sic] and Esquimo [sic] aboard ship and in villages and of their dwellings, boats and totems. and Some views are commercially produced, though most appear to be personal photographs. There are individual and group portraits of the crews, passengers and officers of several ships, both on board and on shore, and a listing of the crew of the Bear appears on the fly leaf of the album. The photographs also record whalers and other ships encountered along the way.
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Of the loose photographs, most are inscribed with the initials "A.L.B" with the exception of single images credited to Curtis of Seattle, T. Saiki, and McMurry of Port Townsend, Washington Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works and Unalaska (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship) and Broadbent, Alfred L
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Of the loose photographs, most are inscribed with the initials "A.L.B" with the exception of single images credited to Curtis of Seattle, T. Saiki, and McMurry of Port Townsend, Washington Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works and Unalaska (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship), Broadbent, Alfred L, and World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
At St. Michael’s Island, there are views of the trading station, the Greek church and Russian block house, the buildings of the Alaska Commercial Company, and natives in camp., In Sitka, there are views of the Greek Church, the governor’s house and other public buildings, and of native women curio sellers who turn their backs to avoid having their pictures taken., Photograph album and loose photographs of a voyage to Alaska on the U.S.S. Bear, including views of St. George and Kings Island, seals on St. Paul’s Island, the mission school, a native boat race, walrus hunting and related activities on Cape Prince of Wales, the Bering Straits and natives and landscapes of the Siberian coast, the Indian River, and views of floating ice in the Arctic Ocean., and Some views are commercially produced, though most appear to be personal photographs. There are individual and group portraits of the crews, passengers and officers of several ships, both on board and on shore, and a listing of the crew of the Bear appears on the fly leaf of the album. The photographs also record whalers and other ships encountered along the way.
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Album photographs measure 11.2 x 19.5 cm. and are all inscribed with the initials "A.L.B."
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works, Pribilof Islands (Alaska) --Pictorial works, and Sitka (Alaska) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship) and Broadbent, Alfred L
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Sealing --Alaska --Pictorial works
Heller, Louis Herman, 1839-1928 Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Published / Created:
1864-1900.
Call Number:
WA Photos 335
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 20
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
Heller operated a photography studio in Yreka, California, 1864-1869, and in Fort Jones, California, 1869-1900. Images from both studios consist primarily of studio portraits of children, women, and men. Identified portraits from the studio in Yreka, include Henry M. Reid, and probably sisters Catherine E. Moore and Emily B. Moore. Identified portraits from the studio in Fort Jones, include Edward J. Baxter, Daniel Davis, Cora Kist, Naomi Swan, and Henry E. Witherspoon., Other photographs related to the Modoc Indian War include single and group portraits created by Heller and distributed by Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery documenting Modoc prisoners taken into custody and their captors. Portraits include Black Jim, Buckskin Doctor, Curley Headed Jack, John A. Fairchild, Hooka Jim, Donald McKay, One-Eyed Dixie, One-Eyed Mose, Scarface Charlie, Shacknasty Jim, Schonchin, Steamboat Frank, Wheum, in addition to Captain Jack and a portrait of his family., Stereograph cards include images related to the Modoc Indian War, including exterior group portraits of the United States military and allied Indians pursuing the Modoc force, views of the lava bed landscape, and the military headquarters of Tule Lake. Some stereograph cards also bear the imprint of the Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, which also distributed them., and Studio portrait photographs and incidental images primarily in Siskiyou County, California, created by Louis Herman Heller, 1864-1900, in addition to images related to the Modoc Indian War, the only major Indian war fought by the federal government in California, November 1872 - June 1873.
Subject (Geographic):
Etna (Calif.), Fort Jones (Calif.), Siskiyou County (Calif.), Tulelake (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Yreka (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Baxter, Edward J, Curley Headed Jack, Davis, Daniel.--1880-1885, Fairchild, John A, Heller, Louis Herman,--1839-1928, Hooka Jim, Jack,--Captain, Modoc Chief,--d. 1873, Kist, Cora, and McKay, Donald
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Modoc Indians--Pictorial works, Modoc Indians--Portraits, Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873--Pictorial works, Prisoners--Portraits, and Soldiers--Pictorial works
Photographs of the Menominee Warrior Society armed occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate, Gresham, Wisconsin, January-February 1975. Images include interiors and exteriors of the monastery, portraits of Menominee Warrior Society wearing ski masks, portraits of Wisconsin National Guard Colonel Hugh Simonson, a children's sweat lodge, and members of the Menominee Warrior Society hand-cuffed to members of the Shawano County Sheriff Department. Group portraits include members of the Menominee Warrior Society, Wisconsin National Guard soldiers, and supporters Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement and actor Marlon Brando. Incidental images include a portrait of Stanley Holder and a Tlingit woman scraping a deer hide with an ulu knife.
Description:
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions., Prints created by the photographer ca. 2000., Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Gresham (Wis.)
Subject (Name):
Alexian Brothers Novitiate (Gresham, Wis.), American Indian Movement, Banks, Dennis, Brando, Marlon, Luck, Owen Craig,--1947-, Menominee Warrior Society, Simonson, Hugh, and Wisconsin.--National Guard
Subject (Topic):
Indian children--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Menominee Indians--Government relations, Menominee Indians--Pictorial works, Prisoners--Wisconsin--Shawano County, Sheriffs--Wisconsin--Shawano County, and Tlingit Indians--Pictorial works
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Description:
Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874, Shoshoni Indians--Pictorial works, and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Subject (Topic):
Dogs in art, Indian women--North America--Pictorial works, and Indians of North America--Pictorial works