Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of places and events. The majority of the photographs are of the Hopi Indians, their Snake, Antelope, and Flute ceremonies, kiva interiors, as well as weaving, grinding corn, courting, working in fields, making pottery, and marketing at the Moenkopi, Mishongnovi, Shipolovi and Shongopovi Pueblos. There are also photographs of cliff-dwellings at Mesa Verde and Mancos Canyon, Colorado; Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; Pueblo Indians at Isleta and Acoma, New Mexico; Navajo and Ute Indians in New Mexico and Colorado; Penitentes in Abiquiu, New Mexico; and views of wagon trains, Indian encampments, mines, and sheepherding in Montana
Description:
Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute ceremonies in Arizona, the Pueblo villages of Acoma and Isleta, Montana wagon trains, and cattle and sheep roundups. He sold his own photographs, wrote articles and provided illustrations for popular magazines, and provided photographs for several books on Southwestern Indians written by others., Accompanied by a contemporary typescript containing captions and often explanatory background for almost all of the photographs in the album. Typescript titled "Index to the Frank Klepetko Album. Photos and Data by Sumner W. Matteson" and signed "Sumner W. Matteson, D.A.C. [Denver Athletic Club] Denver, Colo. Jan. 1903.", Individual photographs are 12 x 17 cm. and smaller., 157 of the photographs are platinum prints., Album and copy prints in 2 boxes., and Copy prints available for every page except the first.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript diary in the hand of Henry Ridinger, 1878-1882. Ridinger describes his work as a herder in Colorado, landscapes and topography in Colorado, Navajo settlements, working in the hay trade, a shooting and arrest in Colorado, and his travel through Kansas to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Ridinger describes life with a group of Osage, including the construction of buildings, hunting, fishing, agriculture, and Osage funerary and religious ceremonies. Ridinger also records his interactions with other tribes, including Pawnee, Cherokee, Ute, and Waco. He describes relations and treaties between the tribes, as well as the tribes' relations with the United States government, including the disbursement of food and clothing. Other passages describe copies of earlier treaties with France and Spain which the tribes showed Ridinger. A later entry describes the aftermath of the United States Army burning a Jewish settlement in Oklahoma in 1881 and The diary also includes an essay about the history of Native American treaties with the United States government and several pages of accounts listing expenses and sales of hay, wheat, and corn. The diary includes several drawings of people, horses, insects, dogs, and symbols. Accompanied by 3 photographs, one hand-colored portrait of Henry Ridinger, one of an unidentified woman, and one of a man and woman captioned "Uncle Sam [Ridinger] with his sweetheart who died."
Description:
Henry Ridinger (1851-1938) was born in either Iowa or Illinois in 1851. His family moved to Kansas in 1857 and he left home at the age of 11, circa 1862. He worked as a cattle herder and hay farmer in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma for several years in the 1870s and 1880s. He later became a hay farmer in Lincoln County, Nebraska, circa 1885., In English., and Front and back covers are detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Colorado, Indian Territory, and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938. and Ridinger, Sam
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cherokee Indians, Crime, Hay trade, Herders, Hunting, Indians of North America, Government relations, Jews, Navajo Indians, Osage Indians, Pawnee Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, and Description and travel
Album of photographs created by Frederick Hastings Chapin, a pharmacist and mountaineer from Hartford, Connecticut, documenting the cliff-dwellings and ruins at the Mancos Site and Mesa Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, during the summers of 1889 and 1890. Images include detailed views of the cliff houses and other structures in Mancos Canyon, Cliff Canyon, and a branch of Johnson Canyon known as Acowitz Canyon. Other images include views of the La Plata Mountains and other geological formations in the area, contemporary American Indian wickiups made by Ute Indians, and the ranch of Richard Wetherill, a local homesteader who uncovered the Mancos Site in December 1888. Identified individuals in images include Richard Wetherill cinching the loads on packhorses, his brother John Wetherill, looking through the window of a granary, and a man wearing jodhpurs and high boots identified as probably Chapin
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Spine title: Mancos Canon., Individual photographs measure 11.6 x 18.1 cm., and Manuscript captions in ink at bottom of each photograph.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Colorado, Cliff Canyon (Colo.), Johnson Canyon (Colo.), La Plata Mountains, Mancos Canyon (Colo.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), and Montezuma County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Chapin, Frederick H. (Frederick Hastings), Wetherill, John., and Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910.
Subject (Topic):
Cliff-dwellings, Indians of North America, and Mountains
