Photograph depicting Castle Creek valley with distant view of General George Armstrong Custer's wagon train passing through. The stereograph was published as part of Illingworth's "Stereographs of the Black Hills" series.
Biographical/Historical note:
William H. Illingworth (1844–1893) moved with his family from England to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1850. When he was about twenty years old, he began studying wet plate photography in Chicago. He joined Captain James L. Fisk's fourth expedition to the Montana Territory (1866) and the following year he opened a gallery and studio in St. Paul with fellow expedition member George Bill. He also formed a partnership with William McLeish (Illingworth & McLeish). As a photographer for Custer's 1874 military expedition, Illingworth produced approximately seventy images of both the landscape and members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2000-12
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional Illingworth photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 4605, and the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Stereographs
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 2000-12, William H. Illingworth photograph of the Black Hills Expedition in Castle Creek Valley, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Bryce Canyon National Park -- photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Utah
Wyoming -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Colorado -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
South Dakota -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Florida -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Georgia -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Tennessee -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Zion National Park (Utah) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Kentucky -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Mt. Rushmore S.D. -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Badlands National Park (S.D.) -- 1930-1940 photographs
Date:
1935 - 1940
Summary:
The collection consists of a disassembled photograph album, featuring images from the travels of Stauffer and his wife.
Scope and Contents:
This album consists of 109 loose pages, bearing a total of 134 black and white silver gelatin photoprints, some postcards, and a photomechanical reproduction clipped from a publication, with a 1939 World's Fair ticket stub. The subjects of the photographs include: Lincoln's birthplace and other sites in Kentucky; Tennessee; Georgia; Florida; Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts; the 1939 New York World's Fair, ships in Battery Park and Manhattan buildings; the ships The Normandie, The Queen Mary, and The U.S.S. Constitution and the Southern Clipper airplane; the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota, Cathedral Spires and Mount Rushmore portrait busts during construction; Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming; Rocky Mountain National Park, Pikes Peak and Denver, Colorado; Bryce Canyon, the Mormon Temple, Zion National Park, Salt Lake City and other areas of Utah; Boulder Dam; Santa Catalina Island; Carlsbad Caverns; and celebrities Bill Robinson and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson at a barbecue in Los Angeles. There are also photographs of the Stauffers and of friends whom they visited during their travels.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into
Biographical / Historical:
Born in Alliance, Ohio on November 28, 1899, Clyde Stauffer served in the U.S. Navy from November 8, 1917 to July 31, 1919. He later worked as a police officer in Detroit, Michigan. He and his wife were active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post in Detroit, serving terms as post commander and president of the Women's Auxiliary, respectively. They traveled extensively throughout the United States to attend VFW meetings, and the album forms a record of their travels during the years 1935-1940. After retirement from the Detroit police force, the Stauffers moved to Oscoda, Michigan, and he worked at Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Later they lived in Tucson, Arizona. Stauffer died in August, 1984.
Album forms a record of vacation travel by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Stauffer, 1935-1940. Their travels were occasioned by Mr. Stauffer's position as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post of Detroit, Michigan, and the need to attend V.F.W. meetings around the country. Mrs. Stauffer was president of the V.F.W. auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Stern met the Stauffers in Oscoda, Michigan, and both families eventually relocated in Tucson, Arizona.
Provenance:
This collection was bequeathed by Clyde W. Stauffer in August 1984. Mr. Stern, as administrator of the estate, sent the album to the Museum.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
Automobile travel -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- U.S.A. Search this
The Sioux tribe of Indians v. the United States : no. C-531-(7) Black hills : plaintiffs' statement of fact, request for special findings of fact, and brief
The mineral wealth, climate and rain-fall, and natural resources of the Black Hills of Dakota / by Walter P. Jenney ... ; Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, 1876 ; United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Black Hills
Author:
Jenney, Walter P. (Walter Proctor) 1849-1921 Search this
Physical description:
[2], 71, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map, ; 26 cm
Report of the Commission appointed to treat with the Sioux Indians for the relinquishment of the Black Hills. Commissioners: W. B. Allison, chairman. Alfred H. Terry. A. Comingo. Samuel D. Hinman. G. P. Beauvais. A. G. Lawrence. Wm. H. Ashby. J. S. Collins, secretary
Author:
United States Commission Appointed to Treat with the Sioux Indians for the Relinquishment of the Black Hills Search this
Allison, William B (William Boyd) 1829-1908 Search this
Footage taken at a July 4th rodeo in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Parade shots at the rodeo include Ben Black Elk in buckskins and war bonnet and truncated versions of the war and kettle dance as well as a fancy dancer. Footage also includes a Sioux Indian Dog feast held by Chief Roan Bear at the Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, showing preparation of a shunka (dog) accompanied by cooking of buffalo meat, tipsina (Indian turnip), radishes, and other vegetables.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1988.10.1
Provenance:
Received from the Red Cloud Indian School Heritage Center in 1988.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 23, 1875, a report of the expedition to the Black Hills, under command of Bvt. Maj. Gen. George A. Custer
Title:
Report of the expedition to the Black Hills
Author:
Custer, George A (George Armstrong) 1839-1876 Search this
