Dakota Territory: 1883. An uncredited photograph taken by F. Jay Haynes. Haynes was the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Yellowstone National Park. Haynes took a series of pictures of the Crow in 1883, including this picture of Ashishishe. The picture was likely taken at the last...
Wyoming: 1903. First Edition. Gelatin silver prints, most photographs roughly 4 ½ by 6 ¾ inches, with sizes varying somewhat. With handwritten notations on versos in Buffum’s hand. A series of photographs taken by the range manager Bert C. Buffum during a street parade in Sheridan, Wyoming, in October of...
N.p. 1924. Glossy gelatin silver print, 1924. 7 ½ x 6 inches. Signed by Curtis. Curtis, EdwardAn Owens Valley Mono. Glossy gelatin silver print, 1924. 7 ½ x 6 inches. Signed by Curtis. By the time Edward Curtis began photographing Native Americans in California in 1916, the populations had dwindled...
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Vinita: 1890-1892. First Edition. Vinita, n.d., circa 1890. 8vo, self-wraps, 8 pp.; Vinita, 1892. 12mo, 11 folded sheets, four pages per sheet, 44 pp, unbound. Two uncommon Cherokee language imprints. Chamberlin was at the Pheas-ant Hill mission, in current Craig County, when Vinita was known as Downingville. A Presbyterian, he...
Chadron: Northwestern Photographic Company, 1890-1891. First Edition. Prints roughly 4 ¼ x 7 inches mounted to heavy card. Most spotted and faded, surfaces soiled, a few with creases, one beginning to tear, cards worn at edges, some with small losses not affecting prints. Generally good condition overall. Many photographs of...
Holdenville: 1900. 2 3/4 x 2 inches on larger mount. A striking image of two men, one of Native American descent, taken in Holdenville, Indian Territory sometime after the town’s incorporation in 1898. The town began as a settlement for workers on the The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, which...
N.p., probably printed later. Gelatin silver print on glossy paper. 23 x 5, archivally mounted and matted. This large-format photograph depicts a large group of Osage on the farm of a well-known original allotment holder, Robert “Bob” Morrell (and his wife Grace Penn Morrell), on the Osage Nation reservation. This.....
Manual Labor School, Shawnee Nation [Johnson County, Kansas]: c. 1844-1850. nk on wove paper: 9 ¾ x 7-3/16 in.; strong creases where folded, two small closed tears starting with scattered pinholes to creases. The document lists the names and ages of four Creek boys and where letters to their parents...
New York, et al: 1915. Silver gelatin prints, roughly 8 x 8, 8 x 10 and 5 x 7 inches, the last on a larger mount. In 1914, Francis Red Fox James, now presumed to be related to the Blackfoot tribe, rode a horse across the country seeking states’ approval...
Various Places: 1927-1929. Tileman, Homer; Topeka Art Guild, et al. Includes the following: Portrait of Two Guns White Calf. Oil on canvas, 18 x 13 inches in larger contemporary wood painted frame (paint chipped). Signed “F.A.V. [19]29”, with the pictographic form of Two Guns White Calf’s signature added.....