Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten". and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission".
Photographs show groups of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians posed in front of tipis, tents, and trees, most likely in what is now Oklahoma. A few wear western clothing, and a white man and boy appear in some images. Individuals pictured include Mrs. Scabby Bull, Ethel Black Wolf, Rabbit Run, Wolf Chase, Coal A Fire, Strik-em-First, Singing Man, Jay Gould, Big Timber, and Myrtle Bad Man, among others. Two views of the Arapaho camp and one of the Cheyenne camp are taken from a distance. The album also contains two photographs of Niagara Falls.
Description:
Manuscript captions throughout. and Photographer unidentified.
Subject (Geographic):
Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.)--Pictorial works, Niagara Falls (N.Y.)--Pictorial works, and Oklahoma--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians--Portraits, Cheyenne Indians--Portraits, Indian reservations--Oklahoma--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Tipis--Pictorial works
Internal evidence suggests that the album dates before 1902 (the year White Antelope, who is portrayed, died)., Photograph album by an unidentified photographer of Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa Indians, probably taken in or around the Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency in Darlington, Canadian County, Oklahoma. The outdoor scenes include a large number of family groups, women, and children, many identified with Americanized names., and There are also notable images of the baptism of a Kiowa man, the "crow dance," meat drying on racks, Arapaho school girls, and a single image of what appear to be not Indian women but white woman dressed in Indian clothing, identified as "Calumet Squaws" (Calument was a town close to the agency).
Description:
Individual photographs measure 10 x 12.5 cm, and have manuscript captions and numbers.
Subject (Geographic):
Darlington (Okla.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians--Pictorial works, Baptism--Pictorial works.--lctgm, Cheyenne Indians--Pictorial works, Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Agency (Okla.), Indian reservations--Oklahoma--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Kiowa Indians--Pictorial works, and Missionaries--Oklahoma--Pictorial works
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
Bound photograph album kept by an unidentified amateur photographer depicting a trip made to Texas and California via railroad from January to March 1893. The album opens with views of Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi and includes 23 photographs of sites in New Orleans. In Texas there are views of a limestone quarry in Kerrville; buildings in San Antonio, including the Alamo; and Missions San José and San Juan. In California there are views of public buildings in Los Angeles and Pasadena; Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando and Santa Barbara; agriculture in Covina and Riverside; and wharves at Redondo and San Pedro.
Description:
Manuscript captions on mounts. and Purchased from Charles B. Wood III on the Thomas W. Streeter Fund, 1998.
Subject (Geographic):
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Pictorial works, California--Pictorial works, Covina (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Kerrville (Tex.)--Pictorial works, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Pictorial works, New Orleans (La.)--Pictorial works, Pasadena (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Redondo Beach (Calif.)--Pictorial works, Riverside (Calif.)--Pictorial works, San Antonio (Tex.)--Pictorial works, San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Texas--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.), Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Pictorial works, San Fernando Mission (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Santa Barbara Mission--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
Argentum Photographic Services Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952 North Dakota Heritage Foundation Stemmens, Red. Frank Fiske and western photography Vyzralek, Frank. Frank Bennett Fiske
Published / Created:
1983
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 50
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
32
Abstract:
Accompanying leaflets consist of essays, "Frank Bennett Fiske," by Frank Vyzralek, and "Frank Fiske and Western Photography," by Rod Stemmens., Exterior portraits of Lakota men consist of an image of White Bull posed standing in a meadow holding a calumet, and an image of a man posed standing, wearing a feather headdress, and holding a bow, beaded quiver, and lance. An exterior view shows two council tipis decorated with depictions of horses., Group portraits of Lakota men include two Lakota men identified as wranglers, and an image of two Lakota men holding the outstretched wings of a dead golden eagle, with a man holding a rifle identified as Herbert Keeps Eagle. An additional studio portrait of nine unidentified men consists of three Lakota men and six white men in clerical dress, identified as priests at the mission., Lakota men portrayed include Black Bear, Gray Hawk, Iron Star, Kicks Iron, Kicks the Iron, One Bull, Rain in the Face, Red Fish, Red Fox, Sharp Horn Bull, White Bear, and Yellow Hawk. Studio portraits of Joe No Heart show him wearing traditional regalia in one and wearing contemporary clothing and a police badge in another. An additional studio portrait depicts Fiske as a child, holding a rifle, dressed in a fringed buckskin jacket and pants., Portraits originally created by Frank Bennett Fiske, primarily of Lakota (Teton) Indians, ca. 1895-1930. Most of the images were created at his photographic studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota, and most of the Lakota people in the images lived on the Standing Rock Agency. The photographic prints in these portfolios were printed from original and copy negatives by Argentum Photographic Services, Seattle, Washington, under the auspices of the North Dakota Heritage Society from original photographs in the Frank Fiske Photograph Collection of the State Historical Society of North Dakota,1983., Studio portraits of Lakota families include Paul Brave, his wife and their daughter; Red Fish and his daughters; and a family consisting of a man and two women with one of the women holding a coyote pup., and Studio portraits of Lakota girls and women include Mrs. Chasing Bear, Mrs. Jack Treetop, a girl from the Dunn family, and Mrs. Twin and her daughter.
Description:
In 2 boxes; box 1 digitized in its entirety. and Titles on cards mounted on cases: Portfolio I, Portfolio II. The Portfolio I card includes a reproduction of the image of Kicks Iron. The Portfolio I card includes a reproduction of the image of an unidentified man posed standing.
Publisher:
North Dakota Heritage Society,
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Yates (N.D.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Dunn family--Portraits, Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952, Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952--Portraits, Gray Hawk--Portraits, Iron Star--Portraits, Joe No Heart--Portraits, Kicks Iron--Portraits, Kicks the Iron--Portraits, and Loon--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Coyote--Pictorial works, Golden eagle--Pictorial works, Indian women--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--North Dakota--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--North Dakota--Portraits, Teton Indians--Pictorial works, Teton Indians--Portraits, and Tipis--Pictorial works