Visual Materials

Cherokee

Description

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.

Type

Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)

Production date

approximately 1869-approximately 1915.

Call number

photCL 275

Creator

Baptist Indian Institute and Theological School, Tahlequah

Visual Materials

Rev. John Buttrick Jones and family on lower porch. Cherokee men and women are on upper porch and in window of seminary for the Cherokee Nation.

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Baptist Indian Institute and Theological School, Tahlequah

Visual Materials

View of building and grounds of seminary for the Cherokee Nation. Rev. John Buttrick Jones and family are on lower porch.

photCL 275 fld. 32 (43)

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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.

photCL 275

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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.

photCL 275