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Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
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 27 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The woman is standing on the rocks. See number 464 of Photo Lot 90-1.
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
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 16 of the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The three men are standing behind three sitting women.
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 53 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The woman is pictured with her seed gathering equipment.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09876500
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
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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 52 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09876600
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
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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 2 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. Nine men are posed, most with bows and arrows.
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 25 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. Two of the men are mounted, the third stands beside them.
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 51 of the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09876900
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
"Man-nu-ni, all of the tribe, with Mormon and Gentile spectators"
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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 55 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph as taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09877000
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
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The collection is open for research.
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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 54 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph as taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The man wears a headdress and carries a bow and arrows.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09877100
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
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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 57 of the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The two men are standing with their bows. Another man is seated in front of them.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09877200
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
"Five and three are eight"
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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 7 of the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The woman is using a mano and metate.
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 64 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph as taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The man wears a headdress and carries a bow and arrows.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09877300
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
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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 31 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The woman is half lying, half sitting on the rocks. See number 500 of Photo Lot 90-1. The item is identical to number 464 of Photo Lot 90-1.
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 44 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09877600
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
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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 47 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09877700
Other Title:
Indians of the Colorado Valley
Collection Restrictions:
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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 Basin Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
Studio portrait. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Carter's Celebrated Indian Stereoscopic Views. The item is identical to number 598 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09878900
Other Title:
Carter's Celebrated Indian Stereoscopic Views
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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
