Studio portraits made by the James E. McClees Studio and published by the Blackmore Museum, depicting Native American visitors to Washington, D.C. The series is identified by an 1863 broadside in the collection as "Photographs of some of the principal Chiefs of the North American Indians, made when they have visited Washington as deputations from their Tribes." Yankton, Sisseton, Mdewakanton, Wahpeton, Pawnee, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, Ponca, and Ojibwa people are represented. Three additional portraits depict men (possibly Cree) and were probably made by a different photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
James Earl McClees (1821-1887) trained as a daguerreotypist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before opening a studio in Washington, D.C. in 1857. He was an early user of paper photographic processes and was well-known for photographing delegations of American Indians. His Washington studio, known as the James E. McClees Studio, operated in 1857-1858 with Julian Vannerson (1827-?) and Samuel Cohner as its most established operators. The studio was taken over by Robert W. Addis in 1858. Among Addis's proprietors was Antonio Zeno Schindler, an artist who made copies of photographs for English philanthropist and collector William Blackmore (1827-1878). Blackmore purchased the McClees Studio's negatives from Shindler, later transferring them to the Smithsonian. The Bureau of American Ethnology absorbed the photographs upon its formation in 1878-1879.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4286
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional McClees Studio and Vannerson photographs held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives and Photo Lot 4420.
Glass negatives relating to William Henry Blackmore, including copies of photographs collected by Blackmore, held in the British Museum and in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 31 and the BAE historical negatives.
Artifacts collected by Blackmore held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accessions 1846, 2371, and 1826.
Photo Lot 4286, James E. McClees Studio photographs of Native American delegates to Washington DC, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Flint chips [microform] : a guide to pre-historic archæology, as illustrated by the collection in the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury / by Edward T. Stevens
Author:
Stevens, Edward T. (Edward Thomas) 1828-1878 Search this
Subject:
Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England) Archaeological collections Search this
Photographs collected in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries that depict animal specimens, the Blackmore Museum in Salisbury England, and portraits of Thomas Ewbank, Ephraim George Squier, and Jose Sabino Uc. The collection also includes a stereograph depicting plantlife and a landscape, probably in San Diego, California.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 76-114
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the Ephraim George Squier collection of negatives and photographs.
Correspondence from Thomas Ewbanks held in the National Anthropological Archives in American Ethnological Society records.
Additional photographs of the Blackmore museum held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4801 and MS 4689.
"Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England."--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-40 & -40A. Jackson Cat nos.: 357 & 358
"The Thigh" is listed on Property Return from Fort Peck, Montana 188-, No. 222, as An-du-ta, and Chan-cha No. 2 (No. 325)
"Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England."--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-44 & -44A. Jackson Cat nos.: 351 & 352
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore Album No. 5. Blackmore nos.: A5-79 & -79A. Jackson Cat nos.: 176-177. ; Also "Wama-a-ke or Yellow Eagle" in Gardner album. "Chawana tribe ?" Listed on Blackmore collection Album as Chawana Reservation.
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore colln. Album No. 5. Blackmore nos.: A5-78 & -78A. Jackson Cat nos.: 174-175. ; Also Pa ha sa mana (Pa-sa-ga-o-ma-na) in Gardner album. ; Listed on Property Return from Fort Peck, Montana 188-, No. 90, as Pa-sa-ga-o-ma-na.
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington, D. C. For Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.-- from Blackmore collection Album 5. Blackmore nos.: A5-76 (=3653 A) & 76A (=3653 B). Jackson Cat nos.: 170 - 171. ; Tribal identity from Treaty of 1868 at Fort Laramie.
Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1862-1872) (Hayden Survey) Search this
United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870) Search this
United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1871 and 1873) Search this
Extent:
40 Mounted prints
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Mounted prints
Place:
Great Britain -- Salisbury -- Blackmore Museum
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contains: Photos relating to the Darien Expedition [1870, 1871, 1873] (28 prints); by W, H. Jackson on the Hayden Survey [1870's] (5 prints); and by others (6 prints).
Catalog Number 4801: (1)-(28) [South America] Description and photographer: Ethnographic views (houses, people, artifacts) and scenery of Panama and/or Colombia, including the following localities: Cartagena, Colombia; Chipigania, Cupica Bay; Inquisition; Limon River and Limon Bay; Pinogana; Santa Maria del Real, Darien; Turbo, Colombia. See copy negatives of two other subjects from this series: South America 45,889-J, -K.
Catalog Number 4801: Historical: By William H. Jackson, Hayden Survey, date not recorded [1870's]. "Views in the Rocky Mountains" (29) "Fremont's Peak (3o) "Teton Range and Jackson's Lake" (31) "Wind River Peak." "Scenery of the Yellowstone National Park:" (32) "Great Falls of the Yellostone" (33) "Falls on Left Fork of Gardiner's River" None of these photographs were reproduced in either Clarence S. Jackson, Picture Maker of the Old West: Wm. H. Jackson, New York, 1947; or Wm. H. Jackson, Time Exposure: The Autobiography of Wm. H. Jackson, New York, 1940. Historical: (34)-(36) Views of unidentified shoreline with sailing vessels. No date. (1 duplication.) (37)-(38) History of Anthropology Anthropological exhibits at the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1868. Copy Negatives 56,327-56,328. (39) A young boy, possibly Indian. Bust. By H. Ulke, Washington, D. C.
Biographical / Historical:
Panama and Colombia views were photographed on the "Darien Expedition, Comd'r. Selfridge Comd'g." See "Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by way of the Isthmus of Darien," by Thomas Oliver Selfridge, 42nd Cong. 3rd Sess. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. No. 113, Washington, D. C., 1874. Three expeditions: 1870 (T. H. O'Sullivan, photographer); 1871 (John Moran, photographer); 1873 (photographer not recorded). Numbers (9), (13), (17) and (18) are reproduced as lithographs in Selfridge, 1874, opposite pages 6, 40, 76 and 54.
"Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England."--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-41 & -41A. Jackson Cat no.: 359
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore Album #4. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A4-53 (=3182-B-1) & -53A (=3182-B-2). Jackson Cat nos.: 268 (=3182-B-1) & 269 (=3182-b-2).
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore Album No. 5. Blackmore nos.: A5-79 & -79A. Jackson Cat nos.: 176-177. ; Also "Wama-a-ke or Yellow Eagle" in Gardner album. "Chawana tribe ?" Listed on Blackmore collection Album as Chawana Reservation.
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-31 & -31A. Jackson Cat nos.: 349 & 350
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
May 1872
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.3243 A 2
Local Note:
"Taken on their visit to Washington, D. C. May 1872 by Alex. Gardiner, For Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England."-- Title page Blackmore Album No A1. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A1-18. Jackson Cat no.: 298.
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-37 & -37A. Jackson Cat nos.: 368 & 369 ; Originally catalogued as Iron Shell. In comparing the photo to the Jackson catalog, it seems most logical that this is Wicked Bear. The listing of No Flesh in the Gardner Album seems to be a simple transposition. ; Ma-to-tzin-tzi-tzah or Wicked Bear. This photograph is no. 369 in the Jackson Cat. ; The Gardner Album (Indian Office) gives this as portrait of "Tsho-ne-tshah-vua-ni-tzah or No Flesh."
Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England.--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-33 & -33A. Jackson Cat nos.: 374 & 375
"Taken by Alex. Gardiner in Washington D.C. For The Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury England."--from Blackmore Album 3. Blackmore Colln. nos.: A3-38 & -38A. Jackson Cat nos.: 363 & 364
Identified as Wicked Bear in Gardner album, however, compared to other photos of No Flesh it appears a simple case of transposition in the Gardner album.
Ma-to-tzin-tzi-tzah or Wicked Bear. This photograph is no. 369 in the Jackson Cat.
The Gardner Album (Indian Office) gives this as portrait of "Ma-t--tzin-tzi-tzah or Wicked Bear."
