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.....
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.....
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.....
Montana Territory: 1880s. Albumen photographs measuring from 8 x 5 ½ to 8 ½ x 6 ½ on 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch mounts. Fort Assiniboine was located in present-day north-central Montana, and was notable during the Indian Wars period for several reasons: for housing the 10th Cavalry Buffalo.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Various Places: 1920s. Oblong folio, cloth over cardstock, 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards, most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches, mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion, with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for.....