Visual Materials

Seminole

Description

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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Production date

approximately 1869-approximately 1915.

Call number

photCL 275

Creator

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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Kiowa

Visual Materials

Kiowa Indians who became Baptist Church deacons; families on porch of new house; Indians at churches in Oklahoma; tepees; dwellings; encampments; woman painting history on buffalo robe. People identified: Deacon Podelly; Chief Big Tree; Pi-tal-ye (Sun Boy); Deacon Wind; Deacon Sinco; Samuel Akutone. Photographers/publishers: John K. Hillers; Russell (Anadarko, OK); Hedrick (Taloga, OK); unidentified.

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Scene on We-wo-ka Creek, Indian Territory. General John Peter Cleaver Shanks, ex-Congressman, Indiana, and his friend

Visual Materials

John F. Brown (left) and Gen. Shanks (right) and an unidentified African-American boy standing on a log over a creek.

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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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Miscellaneous and Unidentified

Visual Materials

Several unidentified people, possibly Ingalls' family members. Includes portrait of a little boy, Merle Crawford, 1918, (Klamath Indian from Oregon); portraits of unidentified Indians and non-Indians; photographic postcard of a plank house near Placerville, California; man and woman in buggy, in Los Gatos, California, 1896.

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Crow

Visual Materials

Studio portraits and candid photographs of families, dances and school children, mostly in Montana. Views of Indians and whites at Baptist Mission. Two photographs of Crow delegates in Washington D.C. by Charles M. Bell. People identified: Plenty Coups; Bull Tail, White Mouth and families; Shows-a-Fish and Theodore White Mouth; White Arm and family; Rebecca Flathead; Pretty Shell and Pretty Beads (mother and child); Good Eye. Photographers: Charles M. Bell; Huffman, Montana; unidentified.

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