The collection consists of journals, financial documents, account books, correspondence, photographs and maps that document the professional and personal life of George W. Conover. The bulk of the material dates from the turn of the twentieth century,...
Description:
George W. Conover (1848-1936), a native of Philadelphia, was a merchant, rancher and Indian agent in southwestern Oklahoma. From 1870 to 1873 he worked at the Indian commissary at Fort Sill, after which he moved to the area of Andarko to become a ranc...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Andarko (Okla.), Caddo County (Okla.), Indian Territory., Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation (Okla.), Oklahoma, Wichita Reservation (Okla.), and Indian Territory
Subject (Name):
Conover, George W., 1848- and Conover, Tomasa.
Subject (Topic):
Businessmen, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Delaware Indians, Indian agents, Kiowa Indians, Land settlement, Indians of North America, Ranchers, Statehood (American politics), Wichita Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Indian reservations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Bird Chief, Buffalo Goad, Gurney, Benjamin., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895., Little Raven, Little Robe, Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), and Jeremiah Gurney & Son.
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Indians of North America, and Wichita Indians
An incomplete set of images from a portfolio of studio portrait photographs of Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. Indi...
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions and image numbers 82, 86, 94, 95, 97, 102, 106, 111, 114, 117, and 120.
Subject (Name):
Alvord, Henry E. 1844-1904. (Henry Elijah),, Antelope, Big Foot, d. 1890, Black Crow, Cayote, Chewing Elk, Esquitzchew, Gap In The Salt, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gray Leggings, Jim Comanche Indian, Knee-War-War, Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), and Keeche Tribe
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Indians of North America, Government relations, Kiowa Indians, Tawakoni Indians, and Wichita 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
