Bock, Harry V., 1865-1949 Brendel, Allwilda Belle Griffith Dillon, Vince Gillingham, David Gray Eagle Pawnee Indian Baptist Church
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2546
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 11
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Journal kept in a composition book by clerks of the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church, Pawnee, Oklahoma, and related photographs depicting Pawnee Indian members of the church and other Native Americans, 1907-1920., Photographs in the collection consist primarily of images of members of the church. These images include a group portrait of the congregation at the church, and a group portrait of Maggie Knife Chief and family at the Pawnee Indian Agency School, 1911; group portraits of Pawnee Indians at a meeting of the Oklahoma Indian Baptist Association in Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1912; group portraits of Pawnee Indians at the railroad station at Darrow, Oklahoma, July 1914, with men identified in a portrait as White Horse, Robert Peters, Hole in the Ground, and Lester Pratt, and a receipt for two roundtrip tickets purchased on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad from Darrow to Pawnee; and images of a baptism of a man identified as the oldest Oto Indian, 1915., and Portraits of identified Pawnee Indians in the collection include David Gillingham and Hattie Smith Burns, identified as the wife of Benny Burns. Portraits related to Charles Knife Chief include images of him, his children, and of him with John Moses. A portrait of two Pawnee Indian women depicts Nettie Moses and Jenny Long Wolf, who attended the Chilocco Indian Boarding School in Chilocco, Oklahoma. An undated group portrait probably took place at a religious conference meeting and includes Harry Bock.
Description:
Manuscript inscription on the recto and verso of photographic prints. and Reverend Joseph Greenberry Brendel (1862-1926) founded the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church on September 20, 1908 and served as its minister until April 20, 1911, when Harry Bock (1865-1949) took charge of the church. Bock worked many years with western showman Gordon W. Lillie, also known as Pawnee Bill, until becoming a Baptist missionary.
Subject (Geographic):
Anadarko (Okla.)--Pictorial works, Darrow (Okla.)--Pictorial works, Oklahoma--Pictorial works, and Pawnee (Okla.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bock, Harry V., 1865-1949, Brendel, Joseph Greenberry, Knife Chief, Charles, and Moses, John
Subject (Topic):
Baptists--Missions--Oklahoma, Baptists--Oklahoma, Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Missionaries--Oklahoma, and Pawnee Indians--Pictorial works
Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten". and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission".
Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten". and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission".
This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Alternative Title:
[Photograph of Natalie Barney standing and holding a flower]
Description:
Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women. and Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford, D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938, and Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, and Women authors, French