Photographs from an album compiled by Christian Barthelmess for a fellow soldier, O.S. Gordon. The bulk of the images relate to American Indians and the United States army and include studio portraits; images of dwellings and camps; cowboys; Zuni and Navajo performing daily activities; Cheyenne and Zuni dances; a Cheyenne travois; fishing and hunting parties; and American Indian scouts for the army. There are also scenic views of Colorado, Zuni Pueblo, Santa Fe, Custer (Little Bighorn) Battlefield, Camp Proctor, and Forts Merritt and Keogh. The collection also includes some images from Germany, including images of a German singing club and the Bavarian town of Klingenberg on the Main. One photograph was made by W. J. Carpenter, a Colorado photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
Christian Barthelmess (1854-1906) was born in Bavaria and immigrated to the United States in the early 1870s. Enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1876, he directed military bands and was an official army photographer. Barthelmess retired from the Army in 1903, but remained post photographer for Fort Keogh until his death in 1906.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R87-1
Reproduction Note:
Copy negatives made by Smithsonian Institution, 1989.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs by Barthelmess can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4423, Photo Lot 24, and the BAE historical negatives.
The Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University hold photographs by Barthelmess.
The Montana Historical Society Archives holds the Barthelmess Family Papers, 1926-1971, including a series relating to Christian Barthelmess.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Contact the repository for terms of use and access.
Photo Lot R87-1, Copies of Christian Barthelmess photographs of American Indians and United States Army, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Copy prints
Photographs
Date:
circa 1870-1898
Scope and Contents note:
Copies of photographs depicting American Indian scouts with various United States Army detachments. The collection includes group portraits of Indian scouts at Fort Grant in 1898; as well as images of Sioux scouts in 1870; Pawnee scouts; Apache scouts at San Carlos, circa 1893; Dakota followers of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock reservation in 1877; a squad of Indian police with Lieutenant Maury Nichols and an Indian agent; and a studio portrait of an Apache scout.
Biographical/Historical note:
Jacques Noel Jacobsen is a collector and dealer with a focus on US military antiquities and memorabilia.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R86-39
Reproduction Note:
Copy prints made by Marc Teatum for Jacobsen, circa 1975.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of American Indian scouts can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4423, MS 4536, MS 4659, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 89-8, Photo Lot 90-1, and the BAE historical negatives.
Drawings by scouts can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4653 and MS 7500.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Cannot be reproduced without written permission of the donor.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot R86-39, Jacques Noel Jacobsen photograph collection of American Indian scouts, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
