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Collection Citation:
Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969 (bulk 1919-1968). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the digitization of the microfilm of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota, Duluth
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
University of Missouri
University of Montana
Collection Restrictions:
The collection has been digitized and is available online via AAA's website.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969 (bulk 1919-1968). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the digitization of the microfilm of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
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.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V23181 of an unidentified series. The number 41 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to numbers 531, 548, and 976 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09873700
Other Title:
"In the village of Blackfeet Indians near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V23181 of an unidentified series. The number 342 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to numbers 529, 548, and 976 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09873900
Other Title:
"In the village of Blackfeet Indians near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana"
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number V32589 of an unidentified series. The number T164 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The men are dressed in full regalia. The item is identical to number 1311 and 1312 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09874100
Other Title:
"Chief Two-Guns-White-Calf and companions in Medicine Lodge ceremony, Glacier National Park, Montana"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Paxson is wearing buckskins and sitting in a rocking chair. On the fireplace mantle and the wall are various collected objects.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09878700
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number W26347 of an unidentified series. The number H155 is stamped on the front of the photograph. Cheyenne Indians are sitting outside the fence around the gravesite.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait. The item is numbered K736 and A35721.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09891700
Other Title:
"The modern curio peddler. Little Bear, chief of the Crees."
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number V23175 of an unidentified series. The number I48 is stamped on the front of the photograph. Women and children are pictured. Two people use umbrellas to shade themselves. The item is identical to number 974 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09908900
Other Title:
"Scene at a Feast Dance on the Crow Reservation near Billings, Montana."
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 23001 of an unidentified series. The number I46 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The women are in an unidentified camp. The item is identical to number 545 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09917800
Other Title:
"Procession of squaws. Blackfeet medicine lodge, Glacier National Park, Montana"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 23003 of an unidentified series. The number I47 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The men are sitting and are dressed in full regalia. The item is identical to number 546 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09918000
Other Title:
"Powwow in the medicine lodge, Blackfeet Indians of Glacier National Park, Montana"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number V23175 of an unidentified series. The number 48 is stamped on the front of the photograph. Women and children are pictured. Two people use umbrellas to shade themselves. The item is identical to number 872 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09919100
Other Title:
"Scene at a Feast Dance on the Crow Reservation near Billings, Montana."
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number V23181 of an unidentified series. The number 1101 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to numbers 529, 531, and 548 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09919300
Other Title:
"In the village of Blackfeet Indians near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana."
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Several Crow children are in the foreground. Behind them are two adults on horses. Tipis are in the background. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Views of the Black Hills and in Montana.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09950000
Other Title:
Views of the Black Hills and in Montana
"Crow Indians, Crow Agency, Montana"
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The view is down the street showing buildings along either side. Two Indians are sitting in the middle of the street. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Arizona.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09951500
Other Title:
Arizona
"Indians in the foreground"
"St. Thomas, on the muddy, fort"
Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Territories
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number V32589 of an unidentified series. The number T164 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The men are dressed in full regalia. The item is identical to numbers 533 and 1312.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09960900
Other Title:
"Chief Two-Guns-White-Calf and companions in Medicine Lodge ceremony, Glacier National Park, Montana"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
