Florence Barclay Hyatt's Family Portraits (Tintypes, Card Photographs, and Daguerreotype)

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  Florence Barclay Hyatt Photograph Collection

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  This collection contains 50 photographs (28 prints, 21 tintypes, and 1 daguerreotype), collected by Florence Barclay Hyatt (born 1865), who moved with her family to the Dakota Territory as a child and later ran a boarding house in Bismarck, North Dakota. The photographs include 14 card photographs chronicling the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in southwestern South Dakota from 1890 to 1891. Photographs show images of the corpses of Sioux Indians in a mass grave, Chief Hollow Wood, Chief Young Man Afraid of his Horses, council meetings amongst Sioux chiefs, the Ghost Dance, Pine Ridge Indian Agency, Indian police, the Pine Ridge Agency hospital, Indian men and women, and the remnants of Indian camps. Eight views of the mid-Western United States include Sioux Indian Red Tomahawk; Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota; the 1890 Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa; and various nature scenes. The Northwestern Photographic Company created the Wounded Knee Massacre photographs (1-14). F.B. Fiske created photograph (15) of Red Tomahawk, and Brown & Wait created photograph (21) of the Corn Palace at Sioux City, Iowa. Additionally, the collection also includes 28 Civil War era tintypes, carte-de-visites and card photographs, and one daguerreotype depicting Florence Barclay Hyatt's family members from the Askren, Johnson, Kirkpatrick, Messenger, and Ruark families. Some of the sitters have been identified while others remain unknown.

  photCL 178, photDAG 94

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  Florence Barclay Hyatt photograph collection

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  This collection mainly shows people involved in and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre from 1890 to 1891, including Buffalo Bill, Captain Frank Dwight Baldwin, General Nelson Appleton Miles, and Chief Kicking Bear. Other images include nature scenes in the mid-Western United States and portraits of Florence Barclay Hyatt's extended family members.

  photCL 178

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  Miniature photograph album of 22 tintype portraits [Hale or Jones-Welles families?]

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  A miniature bound album with paper board mats containing tintypes of various people. Some people are identified in handwriting below their portrait: Fannie Winslow; [Isanna?] [Page?]; Caroline Flint; Lucy [Huntron?]; Leslie [Huntron?]; Mr. Winslow; Fannie Winslow; Emma Flint; Eva Flint; Martha Davis; Lizzie [Barnard?]. These names don't correspond to Hale family members but may be members of the Jones-Welles families; see mssHale papers. Date estimated based on content and format.

  (photDAG 129)

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  Prints and tintypes (Items 1-49)

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  photCL 178, photDAG 94

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  Daguerreotype: [Two unidentified women] (item 50)

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  Call number: photDAG 94.

  photCL 178, photDAG 94

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  [Miniature album of tintype portraits]

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  Miniature album with leather binding containing twenty-two tintype portraits with the following sitters identified by penciled captions in a nineteenth-century hand: Fannie Winslow; Isanna Page; Caroline Flint; Lucy Huntoon[?]; Leslie Huntoon[?]; Mr. Winslow; Emma Flint; Eva Flint; Martha Davis; and Lizzie Barnard[?]

  photDAG 129