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. /.....
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.....
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.....
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......
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....