Cabinet cards with portraits of Apache chief Pacer and a Kiowa man, both with blankets, braids wrapped in fur, and bows and arrows.
Biographical/Historical note:
William Stinson Soule (1836-1908) was the photographer at Fort Sill (now in Oklahoma) from its founding in 1869 to the end of the Indian campaigns in 1874-1875. Soule moved from New England circa 1868, first working as a photographer at Fort Dodge, Kansas, then at Camp Supply with General Philip Sheridan's campaigning troops. As the photographer for the United States Army at Fort Sill, he photographed the construction of the fort as well as many of the people and events associated with the Indian Wars in that area. Soule left Fort Sill in 1875 to return to Boston where he joined his brother's Soule Photograph Co. and then operated the Soule Art Company until his death.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 97-6
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional Soule photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4599, MS 4791, Photo Lot 3912, MS 2531, Photo Lot 24, and the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 97-6, William S. Soule portraits of Chief Pacer and a Kiowa man, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
