Vermillion: E. Frank Peterson, 1902. 8vo, wraps, with lithograph map printed in red and black, 25 ½ x 32 inches. The Dawes Act of 1889, which greatly reduced the amount of land held in Indian reservations, was passed with two goals in mind: to encourage American Indian assimilation to the.....
Rushville: J.E. Meddaugh, 1890. Albumen cabinet card photograph, 6 ⅛ x 4 ⅜ inches on larger mount. In the period prior to the Wounded Knee Massacre, many white members of the media visited the areas surrounding the Pine Ridge Reservation to witness the Ghost Dance and capitalize on any ensuing.....
Montana: 1920s. Sixty-three postcards measuring 4 x 6 inches, mixed media images some with graphite and watercolor over photographic exposures. Typewritten captions to versos. Christian F. Schuster was a lumber man, boy scout and amateur archaeologist from Holyoke, Massachusetts who spent a series of seventeen summers living with the Piegan.....
Likely New England: 1860-early 1870s. Albumen photographs on mounts, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches on slightly larger mounts, hand colored. Washburn’s Last Sensation was a travelling show that toured regionally in New England and the Northeast United States during the early 1870s. The show featured multiple American Indian performers.....
Chicago: 1926. Sepia toned silver gelatin prints, 11 x 14 inches. Some with Atwell’s marks in negatives, some numbered, all with Atwell’s stamps to versos. The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a 110,000 acre ranch located in pre-statehood Oklahoma territory and a central point in the Oklahoma oil boom. The.....
Council Grove: 1866-1870. Albumen photographs, 3 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches on slightly larger mounts, photographer’s logo to verso. The Kaw people - also known as Kanza or Kansa - were located on the Neosho Reservation near Council Grove from 1847-1873 before white pressure forced them to relocate to Indian.....
Oraibi: 1898. Platinum print, 6 ¼ x 8 14 inches on 9 ¼ x 11 ½ inch sheet, titled and dated in the margin in ink. The Illinois-born photographer Adam Clark Vroman moved to California in 1892 hoping that the dry climate would provide relief for his tuberculosis. He set.....
Montana or Wyoming: 1900-1910. Silver gelatin photographs on thick paper mounts, photographs measuring appx. 4 x 5 inches, mounts 8 x 10. A series of photographs of Crow, taken circa 1900-1905 by an unknown photographer, possibly acquired at a Wyoming street festival. The images bear some resemblance to the work.....
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Washington: United States Goverment Printing Office, 1920. First Edition. Broadside, 8 x 13 inches. An unrecorded broadside of Executive Order No. 1562, issued May 5, 1920, which extended the allowed time for payments for purchases made of land from the Crow Indian Reservation following the agreements of 1914 and 1917.....
Gelatin silver print, 6 x 8.25 inches, on 8 x 10 inch mount. A striking portrait of a young part-Choctaw American Indian man in Durant, Indian Territory. The verso reads “Mr. Frank Love / Halfbreed Choctaw / Durant, IT.” Court records show that Frank Love’s father, Willis.....
Vandalia: Greiner and Sherman, 1831. 8vo, contemporary paper-covered boards, 639, 91 pp. After the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, the United States would begin in earnest to adopt Indian Removal policies in an effort to remove American Indians from lands east of the Mississippi. This uncommon Illinois imprint, recording.....
New York, et al. 1921-1934. Large heavy folio, 12 x 14 inches. 81 leaves, cloth covers with string-through binding. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Leonidas Westervelt was a New York-based playwright and theater historian who also had an interest in archaeology. This scrapbook documents his digs in the New.....
Zuni Pueblo / Washington: 1882-1883. Albumen photograph, 7 ¼ x 9 ¼ on 8 x 10 inch mount. Frank Hamilton Cushing was an ethnologist and anthropologist who helped pioneer the practice of participant observation by living among Zuni in New Mexico. He joined James Stevenson’s anthropological expedition to New Mexico.....
Carlisle: J.N. Choate, 1880-1885. Albumen cabinet card, 8 x 4 ⅞ inches on slightly larger mount. Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in 1879, was one of the most influential institutions of its type during its existence from 1879 to 1919. The purpose of the school - unlike some predecessors such.....
N.p. 1880s-1890s. Mounted albumen photograph on mount, 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches on larger mount. A striking portrait of an American Indian student in western dress, most likely a student at an American Indian boarding school or Indian Residential School, as they were also known. Verso reads, “J.H.C. /.....
Albany: Association for Diffusing Information on the Subject of Indian Rights, 1831. 12mo, wraps, 24; 3 pp. Heman Humphrey was the President of Amherst College, as well as a key figure in the temperance and prohibition movements. This address, on the plight of American Indians during the period following the.....
Kansas or Indian Territory: 1860s-1870s. Fourteen sixth-plate tintype portraits and a carte-de-visite housed in a cloth album, with identification of subjects on mats surrounding the images. The Sac and Fox of the Mississippi, one of three recognized tribes of Sac (or Sauk) and Fox, underwent a period of great upheaval.....
Washington, et al. 1905-1923. Washington, DC et al., 1905-1923. Forty-eight documents, most 8 1/2 x 11 or smaller, various formats and paginations. Please contact us for a full inventory. Daniel Brosius Henderson, Sr. was an attorney who spent the bulk of his career litigating cases involving American Indians, during a......
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New York: Arnold Genthe, 1911-1920. Silver gelatin print, 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches on larger mount. Signed by Genthe on the mount, inscribed by Marlowe as Marlowe Sothern on the mount as follows: “To Jean: our little comrade on our walks in Beautiful Stockbridge. In remembrance also of 'Sun.....
Haverhill: 1940. First Edition. Seven journals, each approximately 70 pages, with pages measuring 4 ½ x 2 ½ inches. These journals, by an unnamed member of the Dean family of Haverhill, were assembled around 1940 from collected family and historical photographs. Taken as a whole they provide a richly detailed.....
Boston: 1930. Oblong quarto, 49 pp. With appx. 1,400 photos, most measuring less than an inch square, with roughly 175 in larger formats up to 3 ½ by 5 inches. A wonderful labor of photographic love created by an unidentified young woman with ties to the Cabot family of Beacon.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. With an autograph letter, signed, with the envelope affixed to the front pastedown. With the bookplate of John and Rebecca Lowrie on front free endpaper. Lowrie reviewed the work for the New York Post, and her review of the book affixed to.....
Los Angeles: Edward Curtis, 1919-1927. Silver Gelatin Print, 5 x 7 inches, with Curtis’s Biltmore Hotel address and Unsell’s name to verso. Signed by Curtis in ink on recto. Eve Unsell was a highly prolific scenarist who wrote for over 95 films during her active period from 1914 to 1933.....
Chicago: J.B. Westendorf, 1877. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches, 6 pp.
Philadelphia: Studio of Joachim Gutekunst, 1880s. Mammoth albumen print on card mount with original gilt lettered mat, 12 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches, mat measuring 20 x 23 ½ inches. Edwin Booth was a highly successful Shakespearean actor, considered by some critics to be the greatest actor of his day.....