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.
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 21077 of an unidentified series. The number 47 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to number 959 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 11507 of an unidentified series. The item is identical to number 937 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09872400
Other Title:
"Group of Malamuts, Allenkaket, Alaska"
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The item is number 11558 of an unidentified series. Pictured are two Eskimo women and three children.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09874600
Other Title:
"Stop for lunch, Malamut Indians, Alaska"
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The item is number 11540 of an unidentified series. The number 66 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The Eskimos have loaded two canoes with their possessions and their dogs.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09875100
Other Title:
"Malemute Indians moving camp"
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Studio portrait. The item is numbered K736 and A35721.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09891700
Other Title:
"The modern curio peddler. Little Bear, chief of the Crees."
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The item is number V27202 of an unidentied series. The number 80 is stamped on the front.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09912900
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The item is number V27203 of an unidentied series. The number T220 is stamped on the front.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09913000
OPPS NEG.94-9247
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The item is number 11507 of an unidentified series. The item is identical to number 516 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09915400
Other Title:
"Group of Malamuts, Allenkaket, Alaska"
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The item is number 11539 of an unidentified series. In the foreground are several men and a dog.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09915900
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The item is number 11540 of an unidentified series. The number 66 is stamped on the front. The Indians are loading two canoes with their possessions.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09916000
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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 11558 of an unidentified series. The number I3 is stamped on the front. Two women and three young children are pictured.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09916100
Other Title:
"Stop for lunch. Malemuit Indians, Alaska"
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The item is number V13331 of an unidentified series. The number 78 is stamped on the front. The description is written on the back in several languages.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09916300
Other Title:
"Eskimo girls in clothing made from skins in the frigid Arctic, Cape York, Greenland."
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The item is number 21021 of an unidentified series. The number 16 is stamped on the front of the photograph. Five children are seated in the opening of the kayak.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09917000
Other Title:
"An Indian canoe, Yukon River, Alaska"
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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 21077 of an unidentified series. The number 47 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to number 508 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 43-4697 of an unidentified series. The description is printed on the back in several languages. The Eskimo are gathered around their summer tents.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09920600
Other Title:
Works and Studios
"The world's most unique inhabitants, Esquimaux and their toupiks (summer tents), Greenland."
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Seven men in white clothing are lined up and facing the camera. Almost all are smoking a pipe.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09956100
Other Title:
"Dog Rib Indians at Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake."
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
