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.
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Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Tintypes
Chromolithographs
Lithographs
Prints
Pages
Photographs
Newspapers
Woodcuts
Place:
Mexico
Taos Pueblo (N.M.)
California
Oregon
Fort Davis (Tex.)
New Mexico
Fort Snelling (Minn.)
Arizona
Texas
San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)
Zuni (N.M.)
Kansas
Colorado
Date:
circa 1863-1900
Summary:
Scrapbook entitled "Our Wild Indians in Peace and War: Surveys, Expeditions, Mining and Scenery of the Great West," compiled by James E. Taylor, possibly as a source for his own illustrations.
Scope and Contents:
Scrapbook entitled "Our Wild Indians in Peace and War: Surveys, Expeditions, Mining and Scenery of the Great West," compiled by James E. Taylor, possibly as a source for his own illustrations. The album includes photographs (mostly albumen with three tintypes), newsclippings, wood engravings, and lithographs, some of which are reproductions of Taylor's own illustrations and paintings. Photographs depict American Indians, US Army soldiers and scouts, historical sites, forts, and scenery. Some were made on expeditions, including the Hayden and Powell surveys, and created from published stereographs. Many of Taylor's illustrations are signed, and some are inscribed with dates and "N. Y." The scrapbook also includes clippings from newspapers and other written sources relating to illustrations and photographs in the album.
Biographical Note:
James E. Taylor (1839-1901) was an artist-correspondent for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper from 1863-1883. Born in Cincinatti, Ohio, he graduated from Notre Dame University by the age of sixteen. Taylor enlisted in the 10th New York Infantry in 1861 and the next year was hired by Leslie's Illustrated newspaper as a "Special Artist" and war correspondent. In 1864 he covered the Shenandoah Valley campaign, and was later one of the illustrator-correspondents at the 1867 treaty negotiations at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. He soon earned the moniker "Indian Artist" because of his vast number of drawings of American Indians. In 1883 Taylor retired from Leslie's to work as a freelance illustrator. Colonel Richard Irving Dodge used Taylor's drawings to illustrate his memoir, "Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West" (1882).
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4605
Related Materials:
The National Anthropolgical Archives holds additional photographs by photographers represented in this collection (including original negatives for some of these prints), particularly in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 87.
Additional photographs by Whitney, Gardner, and Barry held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 80-18.
Julian Vannerson and James E. McClees photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4286.
Pywell photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4498.
O'Sullivan photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo lot 4501.
Additional Hillers photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 83-18 and Photo Lot 87-2N.
Provenance:
Donated or transferred by John Witthoft from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, April 14, 1961.
Studio portrait, full length, standing. Wears light blanket with one dark stripe. Possibly same young man as center figure, Negative 45247-R, and therefore possibly Winnebago ?
Biographical / Historical:
Photographer: E. L. Eaton, 238 Farnham Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Date: Original print is a carte de visite, popular in 1860's.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
ca 1867-69
Scope and Contents:
Seated in studio. Native dress.
Biographical / Historical:
Photographer: C. W. Carter, Carter's View Emporium, East Temple Street, Salt Lake City or E. L. Eaton, 238 Farnham Street, Omaha, Nebraska; or C. R. Savage, Pioneer Art Gallery, East Temple Street, Salt Lake City.
Reasons for suggested date: Original is a carte de visite, popular in 1860's; Nebraska became a state in March, 1867; at least one carte de visite bearing Eaton's imprint is the same as a photo copied by Shindler, Washington, D. C., 1869.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.45247 K
Local Note:
Cf. negative Numbers 56045 and 56046 taken at same time. See and use negative Number 56538 of same.
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
ca 1867-69
Scope and Contents:
Studio group. All wear skirts only, of cloth and of buckskin or fiber fringe. Blackmore Collection #: A41/
Biographical / Historical:
Photographer: E. L. Eaton, 238 Farnham Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Reason for suggested date: Nebraska became a state in March, 1867; therefore date of photo probably between 1867 and 1869. Same photograph copied by Shindler,-#273, Washington, D. C., 1869. See BAE Negative 1660-c. Use this in preference to 1660-c.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
ca 1868-69
Biographical / Historical:
Date: Not recorded. [Ca. 1868-69] Carte de visite style of mount popular in 1860's; and cf. BAE Negative Number 1270, dated 1868-69.
Photographer: E. L. Eaton, 234 Farnham Street, Omaha Nebraska, and 425 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Print copied was so marked.)
Photographer: Parker and Johnson, Photographers, successors to Jackson Brothers, Cor. Douglas & 15th Streets, Omaha Nebraska. (Imprint on another print of same photograph--also carte de visite style--submitted for examination by Vernon W. Riley, 13137 Cozzens Avenue, Chino, California, with letter of August 17, 1960; print returned to him with our reply.)
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.45247 R
Local Note:
Tribe and identification of men at left and center from BAE Negative 1297; identity of man at right from BAE Negative 1300.
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
ca 1867-69
Scope and Contents:
Profile bust, facing right.
Biographical / Historical:
Photographer: E. L. Eaton, 238 Farnham Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Reasons for suggested date: Original is a carte de visite, popular in 1860's; Nebraska became a state in March, 1867; at least one carte de visite bearing Eaton's imprint is the same as a photo copied by Shindler, Washington, D. C., 1869.
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
ca 1867-69
Scope and Contents:
Standing in studio.
Biographical / Historical:
Photographer: Savage & Ottinger, Salt Lake City, Utah or E. L. Eaton, 238 Farnham Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Nebraska became a state in March, 1867; therefore date probably between 1867 and 1869.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.45247 F
Local Note:
Same photograph copied by Shindler, Washington, D. C. 1869. (Shindler Number 265.) See BAE Negative 1699-a; use 45247 F in preference to 1699-a.
Blackmore collection #: A41/2043.
See also 1699-A - same photo.
Note on NAA 1699-A (same photo - copied by Shindler) -- "Copy from old print made at Salt Lake City. (Blackmore Coll.). By Savage & Ottinger, Salt Lake City, Utah probably in the 1860s."
