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
Cartes-de-visite photographs created primarily by photographers in San Francisco and northern California, ca. 1855-1895. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting children, women, and men, in single, couple, and group sittings. Individuals in the images comprise various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Asian American and African American persons. The portraits also include persons with unique physical features, including midgets, dwarves, and giants. Occupations and group memberships represented in the portraits include butchers, circus performers, freemason, miners, musicians, sailors, and soldiers. Other images include portraits of dogs, and copy photographs of drawings, paintings, and dolls, Portraits of identified individuals include Baby Belmont, Frederick Coombs, Tom Coughlan, Tony Denier, Issac Sherwood Halsey, Little Clara Jenkins, Henrietta Lichau, and Eugenie Olanie. Other identified individuals include: Mollie Brown, a bareback somersault horse rider; A. Kerpen, a man with an eight-foot long beard; William Ingraham Kip, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California; and two scholars in academic gowns, presumably from the University of California, George F. Stone and viticulturist Emmett Rixford, Individual photographers with galleries located in San Francisco include: T. A. Brown, John M. Bryan, Alexander Edouart, Sr., Oscar Foss, John D. Godeus, Thomas Houseworth, Benjamin Franklin Howland, J. Jackson, John Lucas Kingsley, Henry Kruse, Charles Lainer, H. Luther, Charles Albert Marston, George Daniels Morse, Eadweard Muybridge, Silas Wright Selleck, Jacob Shew, William Shew, Joseph Trinidad Silva, Hector William Vaughn, Carleton E. Watkins, John A. Winberg, and Lai Yong, Corporate photographic galleries and partnerships located in San Francisco include: Bayley & Winter, Bradley & Rulofson, Brown & Otto, Chalmers & Wolfe, City Mart Photographic Gallery, Currier & Winter, Edouart & Cobb, Hamilton & Kellogg, Hoebel & Luther, Houston's Excelsior Gallery, I. W. Taber & Company, Lawrence & Houseworth, New York Gallery, Peoples Art Gallery, Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, and Wise & Prindle, Individual photographers in other locations throughout California include: Joseph P. Lowe of Auburn; H. H. Frye of Chico; George W. Valleau of Colusa; H. H. Halsey of Dutch Flat; Amasa Plummer Flaglor of Eureka; Ellison Lassell Crawford of Georgetown; S. Johnson of Gilroy; Lewis Jackson Stinson of Marysville; Edward Abraham Kusel of Oroville; L. Dowe and George Ross of Petaluma; Flave H. Gaines of Red Bluff; A. P. Bailey and John A. Todd of Sacramento; James Atkins Clayton of San Jose; H. Schoene of Santa Clara; John E. D. Baldwin of Santa Cruz; John Pitcher Spooner of Stockton; Murry Dunham and James Girard Smith of Vallejo; Issac Sherwood Halsey of Volcano; and Skelton Sanford Noble and B. F. Stevens from unidentified locations, and Photographic galleries and partnerships in other locations throughout California include: Mains & Von Hasseln of Camptonville; Bluett & Fardon and Dunham & Lathrop of Oakland; Sanders & Stinson of Marysville; and Abell & Welsh of Roseburg, Oregon
Description:
Digital version available; and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Abell, Frank George, Jr., 1844-1910., Bailey, A. P., Baldwin, John E. D., Bayley, Wilbur Fisk., Bluett, William H., Bradley, Henry William, 1813-1891., Brown, T. A., photographer., Bryan, John M., Chalmers, James Calder, Jr., Clayton, James Atkins, 1831-1896., Cobb, David., Coombs, Frederick, 1803-1874., Coughlan, Tom., Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895., Currier, Amos., Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917., Dunham, Allen Murray, ca. 1834-ca. 1924., Dunham, Murry., Edouart, Alexander, 1818-1892., Fardon, George Robinson, 1807-1886., Flaglor, Amasa Plummer, 1848-1918., Foss, Oscar., Frye, H. H., Gaines, Flave H., Godeus, John D., Halsey, Henry H., Halsey, Isaac Sherwood, 1828-1895., Hamilton, Charles F., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., Jenkins, Clara., Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875., Johnston, Amasa Park, ca. 1837-1931., Kellogg, Andrew J., Kingsley, John Lucas, ca. 1939-1869., Kip, William Ingraham, 1811-1893., Kruse, Henry., Kusel, Edward Abraham., Lainer, Charles., Lathrop, Frank Henry., Lawrence, George S., Lichau, Henrietta., Lowe, Joseph P., Mains, James Riley., Marston, Charles Albert., Mautz, Carl., Morse, George Daniels., Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904., Noble, Skelton Sanford., Olanie, Eugenie., Prindle, Edward H., Rixford, Emmett H., Ross, George, 1832-1893., Rulofson, William Herman, 1826-1878., Sanders, Stephen Poole., Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885., Shew, Jacob, 1826-1879., Shew, William J., 1820-1903., Silva, Joseph Trinidad., Smith, James Girard, 1836-, Spooner, John Pitcher, 1845-1917., Stevens, B. F., Stinson, Lewis Jackson., Stone, George F., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Todd, John A., 1827-1899., Valleau, George W., Vaughn, Hector William., Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916., Welsh, John Oliver, ca. 1840-ca. 1913., Winberg, John A., Winter, Daniel., Winter, Robert, ca. 1821-1893., Wise, James H., 1812-, Wolfe, Samuel Augustus., Yong, Lai., Abell & Welsh., Bayley & Winter., Bluett & Fardon., Bradley & Rulofson., Brown & Otto., City Mart Photographic Gallery., Currier & Winter., Dunham & Lathrop., Edouart & Cobb., Foss & Halsey., Freemasons, Hamilton & Kellogg., Hoebel & Luther., Houston's Excelsior Gallery., I. W. Taber & Company., Mains & Von Hasseln., Peoples Art Gallery., and Sanders & Stinson.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Asian Americans, Photographers, Circus performers, Dolls, Dwarfs (Persons), Giants (Folklore), Miners, Musicians, Sailors, Soldiers, and Tall people
Carte-de-visite studio portraits of unidentified Native American men, women, and infants, and several outdoor group portraits
Description:
Some mounts have photographer's advertisement on verso, some have stamp of R. James of Vancouver, and some have manuscript captions. and Accompanied by dealer's description.
Photographs depicting Cherokee leaders: a head-and-shoulders portrait of John Ross, a half-length portrait of a uniformed Lewis Downing, and a full-length portrait of a uniformed "Captain in one of the Cherokee loyal Regiments." There is also a portrait of an unidentified bearded white officer in uniform by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries
Description:
John Ross, first chief of the Cherokee Nation. Lewis Downing, second chief of the Cherokee Nation. and Manuscript captions on verso of the three photographs of Cherokee leaders.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Downing, Lewis and Ross, John, 1790-1866
Subject (Topic):
History, Participation, Indian, Cherokee Indians, and Indians of North America
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar, Box 1 contains correspondence, photographs, a legal document, an address book, and a newspaper clipping. The correspondence is among Barney, Bettina Bergery, Berthe Cleyrergue, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Marcelle Fauchier-Delavigne, Nadine Hwang, Janine Lahovany, André Rouveyre, and Crédit Suisse Berne, dated 1935-1973. The bulk of the correspondence consists of eighty-five letters from Barney to Cleyrergue, dated 1940-1968. The photographs depict several individuals, including Barney, Dolly Wilde, Valery Larbaud, Hwang, Eva Palmer, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Antoinette Gentien, Renée Vivien, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, and Marie Laurencin. The legal document is a typescript copy of a page from an April 1918 voir dire, detailing the troubled marriage between Colette and Henry de Jouvenal. The newspaper clipping is an undated cartoon of the temple de l'amitié in Barney's garden. The leather-bound address book belonged to Barney and contains two cartes de visite, Box 2 contains a photographic portrait of Barney at age sixteen, and Box 3 contains a metal bookmark with a butterfly design that belonged to Barney
Description:
Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer., Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Accompanied by a vendor list (in box 1)., and In French and English.
Cartes-de-visite photographs depicting Minnesota scenes and views, including the falls of Minnehaha, the falls of St. Anthony, Fort Snelling, Silver Cascade fall, Pulpit Rock, an ox cart on the Red River of the North, and Sioux women winnowing wheat
Description:
Ten photographs carry contemporary ink captions on the photographs in addition to printed captions which appear on all cards., Bound in a contemporary maroon calf "wallet" album, with "XXI" marked on spine in white ink., and Eleven photographs are by Whitney's Gallery. Two are by John P. Soule, Boston. One is by J.E. Tilton & Co., Boston. Two others carry no imprint.
Publisher:
Whitney's Gallery
Subject (Geographic):
Minnesota, Minnehaha Falls (Minn.), Fort Snelling (Minn.), and Saint Anthony Falls (Minn.)
Carte-de-visite photographs of Sioux and Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, Fort Snelling, Fort Garry; of Red River train carts in St. Paul; and of people escaping from the Red River uprising. There are many portraits of Sioux Indians, some of them identified as having been executed for their part in the Red River massacre. There are also images of Sioux Indians in camps, of Chippewa chiefs, as well as of an Indian school run by "Miss Allen," and of Sioux Indian boys at the Bishop Seabury Mission School in Faribault, Minnesota. Photographers include Joel E. Whitney, Benjamin F. Upton, Hoard & Tenney, and S. J. Morrow. Many of the photographs are on Martin's Art Gallery mounts, or variants: Martin's Gallery of Indian Portraits, Martin's Gallery of Minnesota Views
Description:
Title and dates from typescript title page., Manuscript and letterpress captions on mounts., and Album rebound by Conservation Studio so that verso captions may be seen. Original photograph sleeves have been retained for caption information.
Subject (Geographic):
Minnesota. and Minnesota
Subject (Name):
Bishop Seabury Mission.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Wars, 1862-1865, Indians of North America, Prisoners, and History
Tintypes and carte-de-visite photographs primarily depicting Missisauga Indian individuals of the Ojibway Nation in the vicinity of Alderville, Ontario, ca. 1850-1890, A studio portrait created ca. 1853, by an unidentified photographer, and copy photographed by Anny W. James of Belleville, Ontario, ca. 1860-1865, of William Case, a Methodist minister who established an industrial school in Alderville. The Missisauga Indians may represent individuals Case converted to Methodism. A studio portrait depicts the wife of Case, Eliza Barnes Case, posed sitting and knitting, created by Charles Lawe, Cobourg, Ontario, ca. 1870, Matted tintypes consist of two exterior portraits, probably taken in the same location by the same photographer, one image depicting a group of three Missisauga women, one of them identified as Mrs. Beaver, and the other image depicting a Missisauga woman and two children, Unmatted tintypes consist of studio portraits of two Missisauga men, one posed standing and identified as Joe Beaver, and the other posed sitting and identified as Peter Annego. Five other tintypes depict different Missisauga children, Carte-de-visite photographs of identified men include a portrait of Richard Black created by John L. Richmond, Campbellford, Ontario, ca. 1890, and a portrait of Indian Agent John Thaisaugouy, created by T. Worden, Newcastle on Tyne, Great Britain, ca. 1880. Other carte-de-visite photographs of Missisauga men include a full portrait of a man in a graduation gown in addition to several bust portraits of unidentified men created by different photographers, including Frank Cooper, London, Ontario; James Little, Peterborough, Ontario; and Walter S. Gramsby, Lindsay, Ontario, A carte-de-visite photograph of a woman shows Evelyn Chubb, wife of Joseph Chubb, created by Charles Lawe. A carte-de-visite photograph of a woman and girl is identified as Hiawatha Lukes, wife of Joseph Lukes, and her younger sister, Mary Bell Naugham, created by Thompson & Son Photographers, Peterborough, Ontario, and A carte-de-visite photograph created by an unidentified photographer depicts a young man posed sitting and a young girl
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alderville (Ont.)
Subject (Name):
Annego, Peter., Beaver, Joe., Black, Richard, Missisauga Indian., Case, Eliza Barnes., Case, William, 1780-1855., Chubb, Evelyn., Cooper, Frank, photographer., Gramsby, Walter S., James, Anny W., Lawe, Charles., Little, James, photographer., Lukes, Hiawatha., Naugham, Mary Bell., Richmond, John L., Thaisaugouy, John., and Thompson & Son Photographers.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Missisauga Indians, and Ojibwa Indians
Scrapbook containing photographs and articles concerning mines owned or operated by James Whitlatch in various regions of Montana and New Mexico. Views include the Whitlatch Union Mine and the Park Gold Mines, worker housing, views of Helena, Montana, scenery in Montana and Utah, and scenes of Salt Lake City. The last several pages of the album are devoted to unidentified cartes-de-visite portraits. The clippings follow the mining career and social activities of James Whitlatch through the 1900s
Description:
51 photographs are 25.4 x 19.4 cm. or smaller and 34 cartes-de-visite are 5.6 x 8.6 cm. or smaller. Most of the photographs are accompanied by manuscript or letterpress captions. Included with the photographs are newspaper clippings, magazine articles, trade advertisements, and one drawing of Eugene Whitlatch. A Montana Society of New York program is also included in the scrapbook, in which the name Elijah Woodward is written. and Accompanied by a list of photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Montana and Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Whitlatch, James W., Whitlatch Union Mine (Mont.), Montana Society of New York., and Park Gold Mines (Mont.)
Box 3 contains one album with a mother-of-pearl front cover, holding 68 photographs in 24 double-sided leaves; the metal clasps are missing. Most of the portraits are captioned and include surnames Talbot, Lyell, Strickland, Wade, Ford, Hay, Napier, Popham, Cobb, Smythe, de Meesters, and others.
