Watercolors of Pawnee, Kiowa, and Arapaho Indians, and views of the Arkansas River, the Platte River, and the Rocky Mountains
Description:
Samuel Seymour was an engraver of portraits in Philadelphia, 1797-1822. He was appointed artist of Major Long's expedition which traveled up the Missouri to Council Bluffs and then along the Platte to the Rocky Mountains and returned by the Arkansas a...
Subject (Geographic):
Arkansas River, Platte River (Neb.), and Rocky Mountains
Subject (Name):
Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822.
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Kiowa Indians, and Pawnee Indians
Two individually captioned designs on sheet showing Native Americans in London. On the left, an Native American man and woman attempt to ride bus, much to the horror of the passengers. On the right, a Native American man steadies himself by holding ...
Photographs of Pawnee Indians identified as Major Frank North's Pawnee scouts, including portraits of Big Doctor, a Pawnee Medicine Man of the Skidi Band, Pawnee and Blue Hawk, Pawnee warriors of the Chau-i Band of Pawnees, and Yellow Sun, head chief ...
Description:
Major Frank North commanded Pawnee Indian scouts in several western campaigns during the 1860s and 1870s, and later performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Publisher:
Eaton
Subject (Geographic):
Council Bluffs (Iowa)
Subject (Name):
North, Frank J. 1840-1885. (Frank Joshua),
Subject (Topic):
Military scouts, Indians of North America, and Pawnee Indians
Five cartes-de-visite photographs of Pawnee Indians identified as scouts for Major Frank North: Murie, White Horse, Chief Snake, High Eagle and Leizer (Ceasar).
Description:
Major Frank North commanded Pawnee Indian scouts in several western campaigns during the 1860s and 1870s, and later performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Publisher:
Jackson Bros
Subject (Name):
North, Frank J. 1840-1885. (Frank Joshua), and Jackson Bros. (Photographers)
Subject (Topic):
Military scouts, Indians of North America, and Pawnee Indians
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1876.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 54
Image Count:
112
Abstract:
Album of photographs of Indians of North America assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The images in the photographs were originally created ca. 1868-1876, and cons...
Description:
Additional identification information for the majority of images in the album is available through the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland.
Subject (Geographic):
East (U.S.), Great Lakes Region (North America), Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, Northwest, Pacific, Southern States, Southwest, New, and Fort Hall (Idaho : Fort)
Subject (Name):
Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893. (Charles Milton),, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Easterly, Thomas M. 1809-1882. (Thomas Martin),, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gurney, Benjamin., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., McClees, James Earle, 1821-1887., Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Shindler, A. Zeno 1823-1899. (Antonio Zeno),, Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910., Ulke, Julius., Ulke, Lee., Vannerson, Julian, b. 1827., Westmann, Orloff R., Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Northern Arapaho Tribe, and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Indian Agency
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 thr...
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 i...
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
