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
Events documented include horseback trips to the White River, a powwow with traditional Lakota costume and dancing, mourners at a cemetery, Lakota women on horseback, and games of football and basketball. Images documenting agricultural events include threshing wheat and castrating calves., Informal portraits include individuals, couples, and groups. Specific student groups including a group of young women from Holy Rosary Mission school, the St. Francis Mission marching band, the St. Francis Mission football team, a dance troupe of girls, and a student theatrical group at the St. Francis Mission in costume and wearing blackface makeup. Informal portraits also depict Lakota people wearing modern and traditional costumes, in addition to Anglo American people wearing traditional Lakota costumes. The only identified individual is Peter Scherer, who directed the St. Francis Mission marching band in 1930-1931., Other images include exterior views of the missions, homes, farms, and oil wells, while interiors views exist of a gymnasium and dining halls at the missions., Photograph album of images created by Eugene Buechel of Oglala Lakota and Sicangu Lakota people and environs in southern South Dakota, ca. 1928-1931., and The Jesuit priest, Eugene Buechel (1874-1954) served as a superior at the mission schools of Holy Rosary Mission (1908-1916), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and St. Francis Mission (1916-1923), Rosebud Indian Reservation, afterwards working to document Lakota language and culture in the region until his death.
Description:
Manuscript captions in German on the verso of several photographs, which are available on photocopies provided with the album. and Photographs in album 8.7 x 14.8 cm. and smaller.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Buechel, Eugene, Catholic Church--Missions--South Dakota, Jesuits--Missions--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.), Jesuits--Missions--Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.), and Scherer, Peter,--band director
Subject (Topic):
Brulé Indians--Pictorial works, Cemeteries--South Dakota--Pictorial works, Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies--Pictorial works, Mission schools, Oglala Indians--Pictorial works, and Teton Indians--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
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