National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
This collection contains 51 photographs collected by Edward Weed that depict various American Indian communities.
Scope and Contents:
P07342-P07370, N36353, N36354
This collection of 51 photographs (49 photographs and 2 copy negatives) that were collected by Edward Weed from his artist father-in-law Vincent Colyer. The collection is an assortment of photographs shot by different photographers and depicting Native communities including Coast Salish; Diné (Navajo); Eastern Band of Cherokee; Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl); Mojave (Mohave); Oklahoma Cherokee; Peoria; Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana]; Shoshone; Tlingit; and Ute.
Photographs in this collection were shot by N. Brown and Son Co.; M.A. Kennedy Co.; Charles Gentile and Co.; Moulton A. Kleckner; Henry Lorenzen; H. P. Osborne; Savage and Ottinger Co.; Noah Shakespeare; and Valentin Wolfenstein.
The photographs in this collection require additional research. It is believed that many may be mis-identified and/or mis-attributed.
Arrangement:
The photographs are arranged in folders according to image number.
Biographical / Historical:
Little is known about Edward F. Weed. It is believed that his father-in-law may have been American artist Vincent Colyer (1824-1888). In addition to painting, Colyer had traveled to the American Southwest between 1868-1871 to report on reservation conditions for Friends of the Indians, a Quaker organization. In 1869, he also surveyed conditions for the newly created Board of Indian Commissioners. It is believed that Coyler collected the photographs in this collection during one of these trips to the Southwest or soon afterward.
Provenance:
The photographs in this collection were donated by Edward F. Weed in 1925 and 1927. They were collected by his possible father-in-law and artist Vincent Colyer from photographer Nicholas Brown.
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edward F. Weed photograph collection, image #, NMAI.AC.182; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Margaret Tomkins, 1984 June 6. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
This collection contains 123 color slides depicting scenes of the Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana] community photographed by Harry Vernon Gressang in 1977. The bulk of the slides depict an outdoor powwow and landscape scenes. Three slides document rug weaving and may have been shot at Navajo Nation in Arizona, circa 1978.
Arrangement:
Arranged by catalog number.
Biographical / Historical:
Harry Gressang of Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ was born on July 22, 1913, and died at age 71 years old in June 1985. He was married to his wife Doris E. Gressang for 44 years and they had one song Randall Gressang.
Provenance:
Gift of Doris Gressang in honor of her husband Harry Vernon Gressang, 1996.
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Harry Vernon Gressang photographs from the Blackfeet Reservation, image #, NMAI.AC.395; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana] Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic slides
Date:
1977
Scope and Contents:
S04993 - S05112
This series contains 120 color slides depicting a Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana] powwow photographed by Harry Vernon Gressang in 1977. The bulk of the photographs depict men, women, and children dancing outdoors. Other photographs document landscapes and tipis.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Harry Vernon Gressang photographs from the Blackfeet Reservation, image #, NMAI.AC.395; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.