This collection includes photographic prints, postcards, and copy negatives acquired by Charles P. Eaton. These photographs were taken by assorted photographers from approximately 1920-1922 and include portraits shot among the Lake Superior Chippewa community in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, Ute communities in Colorado, and Sioux communities of unknown locations within the United States.
Scope and Contents:
This collection is currently unprocessed.
Prints include P03704, P03705, P03707-P03726, P04009, P04490. Copy negatives (photographic) include N21144, N35180-N35183.
P03710 contains derogatory terminology on print.
Arrangement:
Arranged by catalog number.
Biographical / Historical:
Charles Phillips Eaton was born on May 13, 1863 and grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduated in 1883, and then served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant and later a commander until 1921. As a lieutenant, he compiled the book "Notes on International Law," which was published by the United States Naval Institute in 1904. Harriet Phillips Eaton authored "Jersey City and its Historic Sites," in which she mentions that as of 1899, Charles Eaton was one of only three line officers in the navy from Jersey City. Eaton died on March 14, 1922, and is buried in Maple Grove Park Cemetery, Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey.
Provenance:
Gift of Harriet Phillips Eaton in Memory of Commander Charles Eaton, 1922.
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.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Charles and Harriet Eaton photograph collection, image #, NMAI.AC.151; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
