Photograph of Susan Te-u-pun McKay

Description

Title: Photograph of Susan Te-u-pun McKay
Creator: Thomas Houseworth & Co.
Contributor: Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915.
Publication Place: ca. 1874
Abstract: Studio portrait photograph from a mammoth plate negative identified as Susan Te-u-pun McKay, an Umatilla Indian and wife of Donald McKay, a government scout involved in the Modoc Indian War, created by the studio of Thomas Houseworth & Co., ca. 1874. The image depicts McKay posed sitting wearing beaded moccasins, bead necklaces, and a striped blanket
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Printed caption on the verso of the sheet describes "The Nevada Fall, 700 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal., No. 20" and "No. 9 Montgomery St., San Francisco".
Provenance: Purchased from Michel Vinson on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2004.
Extent: 1 photographic print : 53.0 x 41.5 cm. mounted on a sheet 66.5 x 51.0 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Pictorial works
Mammoth plate
Photographic prints
Studio portraits
Material: b & w ;
Subject (Name): Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915.
McKay, Susan Te-u-pun.
Thomas Houseworth & Co.
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Subjects: Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915
McKay, Susan Te-u-pun
Thomas Houseworth & Co.
Indians of North America > Portraits
Indians of North America > Pictorial works

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Thomas Houseworth & Co., Photograph of Susan Te-u-pun McKay. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.