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:
Photographer unidentified., Title devised by cataloger., and Manuscript captions throughout.
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma, Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.), and Niagara Falls (N.Y.)
Subject (Name):
Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Indian reservations, Indians of North America, and Tipis
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, 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)., and Internal evidence suggests that the album dates before 1902 (the year White Antelope, who is portrayed, died).
Description:
Individual photographs measure 10 x 12.5 cm, and have manuscript captions and numbers. and Accompanied by 100 modern copy prints.
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma and Darlington (Okla.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Cheyenne Indians, Arapaho Indians, Kiowa Indians, Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Agency (Okla.), Baptism, Missionaries, and Indian reservations
Photographs of Indian dwellings and studio portraits of Arikara, Gros Ventres (Hidatsa) and Mandan Indians apparently taken at Fort Berthold Indian agency in North Dakota. The portraits are identified as Crow Bear, Lean Wolf, Energy Searcher, Lean Man, He That Stinks, Bobtail Bull, Yellow Wolf, Sitting Bear, Son of Crows Breast, Sioux Dog, Cherry Mouth, Porcupine, Antelope, Son of Red Cow, Little Bull, Red Cow, Chief Bad Gun, Crazy Bull, and Prairie Chicken, all of the Gros Ventres (Hidatsa) tribe and There are also several views of landscapes and cactus, and one view of an annuities issue at Fort Berthold
Description:
Unmounted half stereographs, with manuscript captions on verso. and Date supplied from Paula Fleming et. al., North American Indians in Early Photographs (N.Y.: 1986).
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) and North Dakota
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Arikara Indians, Mandan Indians, Hidatsa Indians, and Indian reservations
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
Photographs of landscapes on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, a group of miners at the Poor Man Mine in Idaho, and views of the cities of Dickenson, Jamestown, and Medora, North Dakota, apparently taken from a railroad car window
Description:
Manuscript captions on mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
Montana, Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.), Idaho, North Dakota, and Poor Man Mine (Idaho)
Subject (Topic):
Indian reservations, Pictorial works, Miners, and Cities and towns
Photographs of the Apache Indian Reservation in San Carlos, Arizona, including views of the new guardhouse, a scouts camp, and Indian children at school
Description:
Manuscript captions on verso of some mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Arizona., and San Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indian reservations, Indians of North America, and Apache Indians
Images created by George Trager and distributed by the Northwestern Photographic Company of views of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, including portraits of Dakota Indians and United States Army personnel, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890-1891, Views of Dakota Indian encampments, include the Camp of Chief Fast Thunder and an overview of the United States Army disarming Dakota Indians on January 21, 1891. Other general views include Dakota Indians waiting to receive government rations on the platform of the reservation commissary and an interior of a frame house built for Chief Red Cloud in 1879, Portraits of Native Americans include a posed portrait of Little Chief, a Northern Cheyenne Indian, which depicts him giving his rifle to James H. Cook. Other discrete portraits of Dakota Indians include Young Man Afraid and Big Road in front of tipis, and an undernourished Dakota Indian woman recuperating in a tipi. Group portraits of Dakota Indians on horseback include Big Talk, Crazy Bear, Good Lance, High Hawk, Hollow Wood, Stinking Bear, and Two Strike, Views of United States Army encampments include the Second Infantry, the Sixth Cavalry, and the Seventh Cavalry, Images related to the Wounded Knee Massacre Include views the battlefield that show frozen bodies of Dakota Indians on the snow covered ground with the civilian burial party in January 1891, A group portrait of General Nelson A. Miles and his staff on January 13, 1891, includes Dallas Bache, Frank D. Baldwin, Sydney A. Cloman, Henry C. Corbin, Ezra P. Ewers, Charles F. Humphrey, Francis J. Ives, Jacob Ford Kent, John S. Mallory, Marion P. Maus, and Francis E. Pierce, and A group portrait of ten men in March 1891 includes five Dakota Indians, consisting of Big Talk, Good Lance, Kicking Bear, Short Bull, and Two Strike, as well as Major John Burke, the press manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; Frank Grouard, an Indian Scout in the United States Army; and John A. McDonough, a reporter for the New York World newspaper
Description:
George E. Trager began photographing army officers and Dakota Indians at the Pine Ridge Reservation in March, 1890. He later formed a partnership with Joseph Ford to sell photographs of Pine Ridge, including images following the Wounded Knee Massacre, and founded the Northwestern Photographic Company in January, 1891. In March 1891 they gained a half interest in Wilbur Springs, a source of mineral water, which they advertised as a cure for epilepsy on the verso of their photographs., Verso of two photographs carry advertisements for the Northwestern Photographic Co., Verso of six photographs carry advertisements for the Northwestern Photographic Co. and Trager & Ford's epilepsy cure., and Captions inscribed in negatives.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota, Pine Ridge, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Ford, Joseph, fl. 1890-1892., Trager, George E., Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company, Northwestern Photographic Co., and United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Indian reservations, and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
