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Photographs related to W. S. Schuyler's service in the American Indian Wars
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Walter Scribner Schuyler photographs
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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 photographs
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Consists of 37 photographs, ranging from cabinet cards to tintypes. Photos are of Walter S. Schuyler's personal life and military service and are also of related individuals: General George Cook, Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan, and Captain John G. Bourke. photPF 1140-1146 were taken during the American Indian Wars, likely during and following the Apache Wars. This set also includes images of Fort Reno, Oklahoma and Arapaho indigenous peoples. photPF 1147 consists of 11 photos taken during the Philippine-American War. One photo in this set shows human remains of the deceased Captain Cerilo (Cirilo) Arenas with his living widow and child. photPF 1148-1149 consists of 16 portraits and group portraits, with some tintypes, of Schuyler. These encompass him as a toddler, as a teenager, as a student at West Point, his service on the Apache campaigns, and his service abroad in Russia.
photPF 1140-1149
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Plains Indian. Fred Miller, photographer. [Reade mistakenly noted the subject was a Chiricahua Native American]
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This is a collection of mostly studio portraits of Native Americans from the Midwestern and Southwestern United States taken during the American Indian Wars. There are also views of their homes and camps on reservations. The photographs in this collection depict members of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, Osage, and Wichita tribes during the American Indian Wars; Native American camp sites on Indian reservations; chieftains; a medicine man; native prisoners of war; native women and children; braves and their families; tipis; native families; and native scouts for the U.S. army. Notable portraits include Lone Wolf, Satank, Chief Stumbling Bear, and Chief Powder Face. William S. Soule is the photographer of the first 23 photographs, and Fred Miller is the photographer of the last two.
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Philip Reade Collection of Native American Photographs by William S. Soule
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This is a collection chiefly of studio portraits of Native Americans from the Midwestern and Southwestern United States taken by photographer William S. Soule during the American Indian Wars in the late 1860s. There are also views of their homes and camps on reservations. The photographs in this collection depict members of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, Osage, and Wichita tribes during the American Indian Wars; Native American camp sites on Indian reservations; chieftains; a medicine man; native prisoners of war; native women and children; braves and their families; tipis; native families; and native scouts for the U.S. army. Notable portraits include Lone Wolf, Satank, Chief Stumbling Bear, and Chief Powder Face. William S. Soule is the photographer of the first 23 photographs (taken ca. 1867-1869), and Fred Miller is the photographer of the last two (taken ca. 1900).
photCL 189
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Portraits of Civil War generals, officers, legislators, and related photographs
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Carte-de-visite photographs of primarily Confederate Army generals, with a few Union Army generals, and portraits of other individuals. Contents: (photograph of a drawing) of Jefferson Davis (on verso: ticket for a raffle for the original drawing, held in Macon, Georgia); Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook; Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; Gen. William Mahone; Gen. George Gordon Meade; Alfred Mitchell; Col. John H. Morgan (1825-1864); Edward Duffield Neill; Rev. Nicholson (Richmond, Virginia); John Ott (Virginia); Gen. William Pendleton; Gen. George E. Pickett; John T. Pickett; Gen. John Pegram; Rev. William Swan Plumer; Davis Quinn (purser, steamer Keyport); Gen. George W. Randolph; Conway Robinson; Gen. Lovell Rousseau; John Thomas Scharf; Confederate Navy Admiral Rafael Semmes; Gen. William T. Sherman; Thaddeus Stevens (legislator); Mary Spotswood, daughter of Charles Campbell; Flora Cooke Stuart, wife of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (senator); Gen. William R. Terry; Robert Toombs (Confederate secretary of state); Brig. Gen. Williams Carter Wickham; Gen. Henry A. Wise. Majority of photographs taken at Lee Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; a few by Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.
photPF 2210-2242
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Photographs related to Western frontier life, Native Americans at Fort Custer, and others
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Three copies of photographs related to the C. X. Larrabee family: Larrabee ranch, Madison County, Wisconsin; Fairhaven Hotel, Washington; and Mary Ann Johnson Larrabee at her home in Omro, Wisconsin. The photograph of the Larrabee ranch is a group portrait of several white men and a woman in front of a house, with one Black woman and one Chinese man in cook's apron included. Other photographs: three albumen photographs of Sioux Indians at Fort Custer, Montana receiving clothes rations with cavalry officers nearby; Sioux men and women with tipis and horses (1884); cowboy riding with a buffalo herd by photographer Sumner W. Matteson (1890s-1900s); photographs of prints of covered wagons and a stagecoach being attacked by Native Americans; camels hitched for transportation. Lastly, one unrelated photograph of the Pedro Andrade adobe, Elizabeth Lake, California, built in 1858, later used as a stage station.
photPF 2186-2196