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.
Drawing, by James Earl Taylor in 1899, of James Bowie, Non-Native Man, in Buckskins, Carrying his Wounded Brother, Resin, During Battle; Group in Native Dress Wielding Tomahawks and Non-Native Group with Rifles Nearby
Proceedings of the southeastern Indian basketry gathering, May 16-17, 2002 Louisiana Regional Folklife Program and Williamson Museum, Northwestern State University ; edited with introduction by Dayna Bowker Lee and H.F. Pete Gregory
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Place:
Florida -- West Palm Beach
Date:
Mar 13 1921
Scope and Contents:
9 women and 3 children. 250218F. Photo by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. Mimeographed label on back gives following: "Seminole Indians Out in Full Regalia for Annual Sun Dance. News Item--Each year West Palm Beach and all its society sojourners experience thr thrill of a sun dance in which Seminole Indians play the leading role. The gaily bedecked squaws dance and otherwise make merry for the fashionable onlookers. The fifth event recently held was the greatest ever put on. This photo clearly shows the type of Seminole Indian that joined in the festivities. Note the peculiar headdress and the many beads worn by them as a sign of wealth and social rank [erroneous]."
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
1 man standing; with neckerchief, shirt with decorated strips on front; 1 seated, with turban, kerchiefs, native footgear.
Biographical / Historical:
Photographer: C. Y. Woodall, Kissimmee City, Florida.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.45560
Local Note:
Handwritten on back: "---[J. M. Wilson] Jr., Kissimmee, Fla." Written in pencil across end, on back: "---y Ham [Billy Ham ?] ------[1 or 2 illeg. words] and [?] Chalie [?] --- [illeg., about 3 letters]
