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
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
