Glass plate negative received (1/65) from Bureau of Indian Affairs. Published as illustration on page 77, National Geog., "From the War-Path to the Plow," by Franklin K. Lane, 1915, volume XXVII. Photographer credited as C.J. Blanchard.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 9992800 ; OPPS NEG 4637
Local Note:
Number 49 on BIA list. ; Slightly different pose of same family in USNM collection, catalog number 387,304:(25), pawn (acc.) with caption "84 Bla Typical Blackfeet Indian Camp on the Blackfeet Reservation, showing Carlisle Ironbreast and his family. W.J.L. Aug. 23, 1909. "For full name of photographer see Spawn original print entry, N.M. catalog Number 387,304. ; Tinted slide of same in National Archives, Record Group 115, Lecture #5, Slide #84 (see Spawn original print entry, N.M. Catalog Number 387,304 re this record group) with caption: " Carlisle Ironbreast and family camp on Blackfeet reservation."
Notes taken down by Dr William C. Sturtevant: "Done for Col. Lemp's grandfather, John Lemp (1838-1912) of Boise,Idaho, on whose land the subject 'chief' often camped. Believed by Col. Lemp to be either Nez Perce or Bannock."
Date not recorded; before 1912.
Photographer: Walter Lubken, Boise, Idaho.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.728632
Local Note:
Embossed in lower right hand corner of original print: "Walter Lubkin, Boise, Idaho."
Arb. Number 45 in NAA survey of unprocessed North American Indian photos, 1972.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Glass negatives
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
Copy from Reclamation Service, 1907, Salt RIver Project, Arizona. Date probably not earlier than 1903 when Reclamation Service began Roosevelt Dam, Salt RIver Project.
