Image of a hunter in buckskin clothing sitting atop his horse, who stands in a shallow pond. The hunter holds his rifle and turns to look behind him. At far left in the distance, a Native American is seen on his horse riding through the tall grasses
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 850ra: Imperfect: Faded and heavily foxed. Print is mounted on verso of an advertising placard for "Life likeness of Charley McCarthy to be given away free," cataloged separately. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trappers, Hunters, Horses, and Indians of North America
Print shows a Native American man smoking a pipe and sitting in the grass with a white man who is holding out a bottle; another white man stands nearby with two horses, one of which has a dead deer or elk on its back; within a single line border; caption letters and imprint below image
Alternative Title:
Indian in doubt and Seductive offer
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Another state, black and white with mirrored reversal of left and right, issued in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (New York), volume 33, issue 834, Sept. 23, 1871, has title: Trading on the plains--a seductive offer--the Indian in doubt.
Wearing a traditional Franciscan habit, the friar Antonio Margil (who was venerated in 1836) holds a crucifix in his left hand, to which he points with his right, as he preaches to a group of exotically dressed Native Americans in an outdoor setting
Alternative Title:
Vera effigies venerabilis servi dei patris Antonii Margil
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Cataloger unable to make precise identification of artist; possibly Francesco Cecchi?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Margil de Jesús, Antonio, 1657-1726
Subject (Topic):
Missionaries, Indians of North America, and Missions
Photographs of the Fifth Cavalry resting in the Black Hills, including views of soldiers in camp, their supply trains, captured Sioux Indians, wounded soldiers, the butchering of horses for meat, and General Crook ordaining Spotted Tail chief of the Sioux at Red Cloud Agency
Description:
Printed captions pasted on mounts., 27 photographs from a series of 31 that Morrow originally photographed, lacking: #6 Bear Rock, from S., near Custer City; #7 Fifth Cavalry leaving Custer City; #23 Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse; #26 Soldiers fighting over horse meat., Stanley J. Morrow photographed General Crook's column shortly after the battle of Slim Buttes in the Sioux War of 1876., and Copy prints stored with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Crook, George, 1828-1890., United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment, United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency, and Spotted Tail, 1823-1881
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, and Dakota 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
