Photographs related to Western frontier life, Native Americans at Fort Custer, and others | Collections | The Huntington

Photographs related to Western frontier life, Native Americans at Fort Custer, and others | Collections | The Huntington

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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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Photographs of the American frontier and other places
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Consists of 16 photographs, postcards, and negatives. photPF 1220 contains two snapshots of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. photPF 1221 consists of six film negatives of fire damage on the P.M.S. Corinto. photPF 1222 depicts the launching of the "Invincible" in 1918. phtoPF 1223, 1223a contains views of Pend d'Oreille Lake in Idaho and the Steamer Mary Moody. photPF 1224 is a snapshop of a group of attachés during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 in Manchuria, Russia. photPF 1225 is a cabinet card of Orlando J. Hodge. photPF 1227-1229 are postcards depicting St. Cloud, Minnesota , a U.S. military hospital at Governor's Island, North Dakota, the Steamship Dampfer Pretoria, and Champion Mines and Murchie Mines in Nevada City.
photPF 1220-1229
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Photographs of Native Americans of Yuma, Arizona
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Cabinet card photographs of Native men and women in Yuma, Arizona, taken by photographer E. A. Bonine of Pasadena. The portraits include baskets, pottery and other artifacts. Two photographs of Native huts, and an overview of a village.
photPF 450-469
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Four photographs of Native Americans
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Four portraits by photographer Frederick Monsen of Native American people consisting of a head-and-shoulders portrait of an older man in a striped shirt, captioned "Old Hopi Snake Priest, 100 yrs old, 1902" (40.5 x 34 cm) (photOV 10138); a naked infant standing next to an adobe building, captioned "Hopi Boy, Oraibi" (image 48 x 35.5 cm) (photOV 10139); a young woman crouching in a doorway, captioned "Hopi Maiden, 1902" (image 42 x 31.5 cm) (photOV 10140); and an older man in profile with a headband and a necklace, captioned "Navajo Man, N.E. Arizona" (image 40.5 x 30 cm) (photOV 10141). Captions are written in pencil on item versos.
photOV 10138-10141
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Photographs of early western life and California
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The photographs consist of eight early western scenes capturing various unidentified locations of a beach, a coastal cliff, a farmhouse, and a town. Two photographs are labled as Bolder Point mine, both images depict male miners hauling ore with a windlass. Also included is an image of Fort Pemaquid (Maine) on a black-and-white postcard. A majority of the photographs have either "Hardy 1945" or "Blanchard 1945" handwritten on the images indicating that they may have been transferred from these collections.
photPF 3592-3599
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Photographs related to the Sioux and Battle of Wounded Knee
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Consists of 63 copy prints of annotated and edited copies of photographs by photographers including George Trager, Frederick Kuhn, Henry R. Lock, and W. W. Hayword. The majority of this collection indicates that the original images were published by H. G. Johnson of New York and Nebraska. Photographs are of the American Indian Wars, focusing mainly on the Pine Ridge Campaign and Wounded Knee, and include images of Ghost Dances. They were taken primarily in South Dakota at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (also referred to as Pine Ridge Agency), the Great Sioux Reservation, Wounded Knee, and Deadwood. Members of various native peoples are depicted, including the Oglala Lakota, Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota, Dakota Yankton (Dakota Sioux) and Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Notable individuals include chiefs and leaders such as Two Strike (Numpkahapa/Nomkahpa), Jerome Crow Dog (Kȟaŋǧí Šúŋka), High Hawk, Young Man Afraid of His Horses (Tasunka Kokipapi), Kicking Bear, Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta), Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake), Standing Elk, and Spotted Elk (Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká, also referred to by Americans as Big Foot). Members of the American military depicted include: General Eugene A. Carr, John M. Burke, Captain Charles W. Taylor, Frank Grouard, and members of the 7th and 9th calvaries. Please note that many of these photographs were taken in the aftermath of the Massacre at Wounded Knee and contain images of human remains. Other photographs within this collection contain racist, harmful, offensive, or inappropriate language.
photPF 1150-1213