In ink on verso below newspaper clipping: 1891., In pencil on verso: Archibald Campbell Niven. / Taken Dec. 1887. / Born Apr. 28 1871 Dec 1887 / April 28, 1871., Newspaper clippin affixed to verso at bottom., and Photographer's imprint on recto and verso.
Subject (Name):
Niven, Archibald C. (Archibald Campbell), 1803-1882
Informal carte-de-visite photographs probably created by James L. Cotter documenting Inuit people and dwellings probably in the vicinity of the eastern coast of Hudson Bay or Belcher Islands, Canada, ca. 1867-1870. Images documenting the traditional costume of the Inuits include an informal portrait of a girl, in addition to group portraits of three women and two men and another group portrait of over sixty children, women, and men. Images documenting Inuit dwellings include a group of men and women in front of three igloos and sitting on top of a sled, two igloos without people, and a structure similar to a tipi with a wooden door.
Description:
James L. Cotter worked in various capacities from clerk to chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company, 1857-1888., Manuscript inscriptions and signatures on the rectos and verso of the photographic prints., and The mount on one photographic print bears a mark for R. Smith, Port Hope and Peterborough, Ontario.
Subject (Geographic):
Hudson Bay
Subject (Name):
Cotter, James L.,--1839-1889 and Smith, R.,--photographer
Subject (Topic):
Indian architecture--Hudson Bay--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Inuit--Canada--Pictorial works, and Inuit--Clothing--Pictorial works
Box 1 contains the correspondence, photographs, family records, the bulk of the military records, and the circa 2013 genealogical material and typescript. Box 2 contains Francis Marion Gibson's Army promotion certificates. and Family correspondence, photographs, and military records documenting the lives of family members of Francis M. Gibson. Gibson's military service in the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army in Montana in the Battle of the Little Bighorn is particularly well documented. The papers include Gibson's military and family records, including his marriage certificate to Kate Garrett, Army promotion certificates, and burial plot records for Washington National Cemetery, 1869-1894, with a letter from Katherine Gibson Fougera about the marriage certificate, circa 1940; letters from Donald McIntosh to Mary Garrett McIntosh, 1876; letters from George Armstong Custer's widow, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, to Katherine Garrett Gibson, circa 1919 and undated; letters from General George H. Cameron to Francis Marion Gibson and Kate Garrett Gibson, 1916-1919; and letters concerning Gibson family history from E. S. Luce, Superintendent of the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, to Katherine Gibson Fougera, 1941-1955, with four photographs of the park enclosed. Accompanied by later genealogical material compiled by descendants and transcript of notes made by Kate Garrett Gibson in 1924, circa 2013.
Description:
Gift of Margaret Christensen, 2013.
Subject (Name):
Cameron, George H., Custer, Elizabeth Bacon,--1842-1933, Fougera, Katherine Gibson,--1882, Garrett family, Gibson family, Gibson, Francis M, Gibson, Kate Garrett,--1853-1934., Luce, E. S.,--active 1941-1955., McIntosh, Donald,--1838-1876., McIntosh, Mary Garrett,--1853-1910., and United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 7th
Subject (Topic):
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 and Soldiers--West (U.S.)