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Walter Scribner Schuyler photographs
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Walter Scribner Schuyler photographs
Visual Materials
Consists of 68 print photographs, negatives, snapshots, postcards, cabinet cards, and portraits from the Walter Scribner Schuyler collection. Several call numbers are assigned to a group of photographs. photPF 1230 consists of 16 photographs of Schuyler, army officers, and indigenous peoples taken during his army service in the American Indian Wars, the Philippines, and the Russo-Japanese War. Some photographs have short captions inscribed on the verso. photPF 1231 contains nine photographs of Schuylers and others with first person inscriptions on the verso. Locations include Mission Carmel, Southern California, a ranch, and the Huachuca mountains. photPF 1240, in which 25 individual photographs are labeled 1240a-w, were taken during his service in the Philippines. Two items within this range are duplicates; locations include Corregidor, Silang, Manila (Escolta Street and the Ayuntamiento), Naic, and Bagac (Hotel De Oriente). Also included are photos of Filipino revolutionaries such as General Mariano Riego de Dios and everyday Filipinos. Other locations in this collection include Fort Riley, Kansas; Tucson, Arizona; Washington, D.C.; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hamburg, Germany. Photographs also include portraits of the United States' 5th Calvary, Kiowa peoples, Cheyenne peoples, Lieutenant Meat, and other unidentified indigeous peoples. One family photo of Walter Scribner Schuyler, his son Walter Schuyler Grant, and grandson Walter Schuyler Grant Jr. is also included. Two negatives are also included within this collection along with an envelope nothing that their prints can be found in Schuyler's diary.
photPF 1230-1249
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Walter Scribner Schuyler papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 152 items from 1811 to 1932, it consists of letters written by Walter Scribner Schuyler to his parents about his army service in the West, especially in Arizona Territory between 1872 and 1874; letters from George Crook about Indian affairs in the 1870s; an account of a survey party Schuyler conducted to Yellowstone National Park in 1883; and his 1904 report as a military observer during the Russo-Japanese War. Of note are 46 journals written by Schuyler between 1898 and 1932, detailing his later military career and his business affairs. There is also correspondence from Philip Henry Sheridan to George Crook in the collection, as well as a typescript of a sketch by Azor Howitt Nickerson titled: Major General George Crook and the Indians [after 1890].
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Walter Scribner Schuyler letters
Manuscripts
These six letters document aspects of Lieutenant Schuyler's service on the Northern Great Plains in 1870-1871 (Wyoming and Nebraska), followed by his involvement in the 1877 campaign that brought the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 to a conclusion. Schuyler mentions: George Crook, Thomas Duncan, John Gregory Bourke, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail. The letters were written to Schuyler's father, mother and Albert C. Snyder. There is also a receipt and five newspaper clippings.
mssHM 83593-83599
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Photographs of Apache Indians
Visual Materials
Consists of six photographs of Apache peoples by A. F. Randall. Some portraits were taken in the photographer's studio and some where taken in an outdoor location (Loco's Camp). Catalog cards note that some sitters were participants in the Chiricahua campaign. Catalog cards also named subjects including Nal-Tzuc-Ei-Eh, Bonito, Rutchi (?), and Nalta; and bands including the Chiricahua, White Mountain, and Mescalero Apaches. A copy of photPF 178 and 179 exists in photCL 101 (13 and 61), and a copy of photPF 182 also resides in the Photo File as photPF 9866.
photPF 178-183
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Photographs of the American Western Frontier and Baltimore
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Consists of nine photographs. photPF 930-931 contain two snapshots of Julia Weber's farmhouse and the site of the original Weber Point Home which was destroyed in a fire in 1917. photPF 932 is a photograph of Bull Run River, Oregon. photPF 933-935 are cyanotypes of a river flat ferry and sod houses located in Dakota (though unclear if one of either state or Dakota Territory). photPF 936-937 are photographs taken at Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland. photPF 936 features Captain W. A. Speaight, 1st Lt. W. Seward Jr., and 2nd Lt. S O. Ryder and is taken by W. Suess. photPF 978 is of Virginia City from Carleton Watkins' New Cabinet Series.
photPF 930-939
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Raymond Hotel photographs
Visual Materials
Four card photographs depicting exterior of the Raymond Hotel and the surrounding landscape in Pasadena, California (and what is now South Pasadena) during the final stages of construction in 1885 and 1886. Three of the photographs are cabinet cards and photPF 596 is a stereograph. Photographer imprints are E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 593-594) and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 595). Stereographs 597, 598 and 599 have been moved to Stereo file: photST.
photPF 593-599