Visual Materials

Ottawa

Description

Native students with white teacher in front of school; portraits of native council members and ministers.

People identified: Isaac McCoy; William Hurr.

Type

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Production date

approximately 1869-approximately 1915.

Call number

photCL 275

Creator

Ingalls, George W (1838-1921)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased from Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ingalls, 1923.

Restrictions

Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs. The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.

Cherokee

Visual Materials

Portraits of Cherokee Indians identified by Ingalls as missionaries, preachers and teachers. Several views of school and seminary buildings; group portraits of students and teachers; children from "Orphan Asylum" in front of U.S. Agency office; Cherokee National Female Seminary near Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Baptist Indian Institute and Theological school; scenery around Tahlequah. People identified: William P. Ross; his brother, D. H. Ross; J. A. Scales; Col. Jesse Chisholm; James Taylor; Daniel Gritts; Rev. Levi Walkingstick; Huckleberry Downing; G. W. Hicks; Adam Lacie (or Lacy); Mark Bean and Pete Markam; John R. Vann; Letitia Fields; Lydia Sixkiller; Mary Jones (daughter of a white missionary who was adopted by the Cherokee Council); Little Foot; Rev. John Buttrick Jones and family. Photographer: John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Creek

Visual Materials

Portraits; G. W. Ingalls and others at his headquarters at Union Agency, Oklahoma territory, ca. 1874; F. B. Severs trade store at Okmulgee, with whites, Indians and African-Americans gathered in front; Ingalls and crowd at Grand Council of 1875 at Old Creek Council House. Also views of new stone Council House, boarding school and the Office of Creek Chief Samuel Checato, with men posed in front. People identified: Rev. Daniel Perryman; J. M. Perryman; Ward Coachman; Samuel Checato; G. W. Ingalls and General Shanks. Photographers: 1 carte-de-visite by Stone & Hansard (Denison, TX); John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Sac and Fox

Visual Materials

Portraits; camp of Grey Eyes; bark houses; women with babies in cradleboards. Views of U. S. Agent's house and family, with croquet game in progress; school house and Indian schoolchildren. People identified: Big Walker; Growing Horn and family; Keokuk Jr.; interpreters Robert Thrift and Mrs. McCoy; camp of Grey Eyes. Photographers: Charles M. Bell; John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Seminole

Visual Materials

Portraits of Seminole ministers and college students; Baptist meeting house; churches. Views of John E. Brown, Secretary of tribe, and his family outside home; and Gen. John Peter Cleaver Shanks with unidentified white man and black man. Views of pioneer town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, ca. 1875, showing wooden storefronts, saloon, trade stores, spring water source, and townspeople gathered for photograph. People identified: James Factor; John Chupco; Rev. Mundy Durant (Black Baptist preacher); John Jumper and his new church; Rebecca Jumper; John F. Brown and family; Gen. John Peter Cleaver Shanks. Photographers/publishers: John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Sioux

Visual Materials

Studio portraits of Sioux leaders and scenes on the Sioux Agency in North Dakota: a schoolhouse, U. S. Agent's house; trade store; Devil's Lake; an Indian farm; Fort Totten and soldiers; native camps and views of dances. People identified: Red Cloud; Running Antelope; Sitting Bull; family of Sitting Bull in front of his tepee; American Horse; Spotted Tail. Photographers/publishers: Portrait of Red Cloud by Mathew Brady, 1872. Also D. F. Barry; unidentified.

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Osage

Visual Materials

Studio portraits; family and wickiup; subchiefs at Grand Council, 1875. Views of Industrial Boarding School, Osage Agency in Indian Territory, and a group portrait of white agency employees, ca. 1880. People identified: Strike Axe; Epe-saun-cee; War Eagle and Eagle Feather; Saucy Chief; Wash-en-pashie; Grey Bird; Two Giver; Hle-ah-too-me (with baby).

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