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
Album of photographs of a rodeo with primarily American Indian participants, probably in the American southwest, ca. 1930. The images of action include men riding horses, steers, and bulls, in addition to roping and bulldogging steers. Other images show a man thrown from a horse and another depicts an injured man being attended to on the ground. Remaining images include American Indian women, possibly in connection with a rodeo queen contest, a wagon pulled by mules, and groups of people encamped, probably around the rodeo arena.
Description:
Individual photographs measure 11.2 x 16.5 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Beauty contests--United States--Pictorial works, Cowboys--Pictorial works, Indian cowboys--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Rodeos--Pictorial works
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
Photograph album relating to the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. Included are views of both male and female students as they participate in several activities, among them a dress parade, a gardening project at the school, the girls' basketball practices, and military-type drills and in band uniforms with their instruments. Also included are views of the graduating classes of 1903 and 1904, as well as a photograph of the faculty.
Description:
C. W. Goodman was superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School between 1902 and 1915. and Manuscript captions accompany most photographs.
Subject (Name):
Brodie, Alexander O. (Alexander Oswald), 1849-1918, Goodman, C. W, and Phoenix Indian School--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Arizona, Indians of North America--Education--Pictorial works, and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Identified individuals include Anna Eustis, a Pawnee woman from Oklahoma, and a Brulé Sioux woman identified as the wife of Keeps the Mountain, probably Good Looking Woman. The unidentified woman wears a kerchief on her head and long beaded earrings., Studio portrait photographs of three Native American women and two Native American men., and Two of the photographs depict men with moustaches, possibly the same man. In one image he wears a paper pin on his lapel advertising "Banner Buggies", of the Banner Buggy Company, St. Louis, Missouri. In the other image he wears a round pin with a star-shaped symbol printed upon it.
Subject (Name):
Banner Buggy Co, Eustis, Anna, and Good Looking Woman,--1859-
Subject (Topic):
Brulé Indians--Pictorial works, Brulé Indians--Portraits, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Pawnee Indians--Pictorial works, and Pawnee 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