50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)
1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))
239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))
96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)
Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School.
Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys.
Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.
Biographical/Historical note:
George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.
Indians of North America -- Southern states Search this
Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 282 in the series Watkins' Pacific Railroad. Pictured are an elderly woman, a younger woman, a child, and a baby in a cradleboard. The item is identical to numbers 24, where the creator is identified as Alfred A. Hart, and to 218 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number 324 in the series Watkins' Pacific Railroad. The women are seated around their seed gathering baskets and trays. The item is identical to number 13 of Photo Lot 90-1, where the creator is identified as Alfred A. Hart.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number 283 in the series Watkins' Pacific Railroad. Studio portrait of five people. The item is identical to numbers 15, where the creator is identified as Alfred A. Hart, and 16 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09934400
Other Title:
Watkins' Pacific Railroad
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Shoshoni -- Baskets -- Food preparation Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The image is of a group of women with their seed gathering equipment - baskets, winnowing trays, and seed beaters. The item is number 324 in the series Scenes on the Humboldt River of Hart's Central Pacific Railroad series. The item is identical to number 1124 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Shoshoni -- Baskets -- Food preparation Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The image is of a group of women with their seed gathering equipment - baskets, winnowing trays, and seed beaters. The item is in the series Scenes on the Humboldt River of Hart's Central Pacific Railroad series.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
Studio view. The item is number 283 in the series Scenes in the Washoe Range of the Central Pacific Railroad series. The photograph is identical to numbers 16 and 1127 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09822500
Other Title:
Scenes in the Washoe Range
Central Pacific Railroad
"Piute Indians"
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
This image is not identified as being by Hart, although it is identical to his number 283 in the series Scenes in the Washoe Range of the series Central Pacific Railroad. The photograph is identical to numbers 15 and 1127 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09822600
Other Title:
Watkins' Pacific Railroad
Scenes in the Washoe Range
Central Pacific Railroad
"Piute Indians"
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 282 in the series Scenes in the Washoe Range of the Central Pacific Railroad. Photograph number 22 of Photo Lot 90-1 also is number 282 in this series. The item is identical to numbers 218 and 1123 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 282 in an unidentified series. Pictured are an elderly woman, a younger woman, a child, and a baby in a cradleboard. The item is identical to numbers 24, where the creator is identified as Alfred A. Hart, and 1123 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution