Cartes-de-visite photographs created by photographers in the United States and Canada of Indians of North America, ca. 1860-1875. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting men in traditional clothing, with a few examples of women and children. Tribal groups represented include Dakota, Fox, Navajo, Paiute, Paloos, Sauk, Shoshoni, Ute, and Yankton. Identified individuals include Spotted Tail, a Dakota chief; and Wolf Necklace (Harlish Washshomake), a Paloos chief. Another identified image consists of a copy photograph of a painting of Keokuk based on a daguerreotype made by Thomas Easterly in 1847 and Photographers and galleries represented include: A. W. Barker, Ottawa, Kansas; W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car; Charles Williams Carter, Salt Lake City, Utah; John N. Choate, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; William R. Cross, Niobrara, Nebraska; Duffin & Caswell, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Howard, Fort Bridger, Wyoming; Jackson Brothers Photography, Omaha, Nebraska; S. Park, Brantford, Ontario; Charles Roscoe Savage, Salt Lake City, Utah; Smith, Peabody, Kansas; A. W. Witherell, Keokuk, Iowa
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Barker, Anthony, 1930-, Bliss, W. P., Carter, Charles Williams., Choate, John N., Cross, W. R. (William R.), Hamilton, C. L., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848., Mautz, Carl., Savage, C. R. 1832-1909. (Charles Roscoe),, Spotted Tail, 1823-1881., Witherell, A. W., Duffin & Caswell., and Jackson Brothers Photography.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Fox Indians, Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Paiute Indians, Paloos Indians, Sauk Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Ute Indians, and Yankton Indians
Portraits of Ree and Sioux Indians, including Yellow Badger, Red Blanket, Crow King, Big Hand, Strikes Enemy (with his son, Bear's Entrails), Standing Holy as a young girl, Running Antelope, Gaul, Grey Bear (alone and with his wife and child), John Grass, Pau-Li-Na, Big John, Sitting Bull and Spread Face. Group portraits of Yellow Badger with The Youngest and High Cheek Bone, and of No Heart's three children (as adults). and There are two partially identified images, one of a teepee and the other of an unidentified Ree Indian
Description:
Letterpress captions on most mounts. and Accompanied by a box list.
Publisher:
Z. Gilbert
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Arikara Indians, and Dakota Indians
Photographs of Dakota Indian camps and of St. Elizabeth Mission in South Dakota. Loose photographs depict camps and winter houses and families, their pets and livestock. There are several portraits of school children and students, perhaps at Hampton Institute. Some manuscript captions refer to ration distribution at Rock Creek sub-agency. One bears the caption "Tina [Lina?] Deloria St. Elizabeth's Mission." There are also views of the Grand River, the Winooskie River, and the Eagle's Nest Butte, The photograph album contains a series of images of the construction of a miniature tipi for a young child, snapshots of family groups, a tree burial, girls on horseback, and the "First Church of Flying-By.", Photographs attached to 10 leaves of lined paper are heavily annotated, and depict trips to Rosebud agency or the Rock Creek sub-agency for rations or meetings, with views of the camps made along the way, and There are two pamphlets concerning the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, one of which is from the Massachusetts Hampton Association. There is a single issue of "Talks and Thoughts of the Hampton Indian Students," dated December 1903. Two manuscript fragments appear to be notes on Indian history
Description:
Manuscript captions accompany many of the photographs. One card photograph, published by Seymour of Sioux City, Iowa, and one unmounted print of two children in cradleboards, copyright 1898 by Lee Morehouse, are present among the otherwise anonymous photographs. and With three publications concerning the Hampton Institute, ca. 1900, and two undated manuscript fragments.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota, St. Elizabeth's Mission, Wakpala, and Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Deloria, Tina. and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Dakota Indians, and Indian reservations
