Photographs show groups of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians posed in front of tipis, tents, and trees, most likely in what is now Oklahoma. A few wear western clothing, and a white man and boy appear in some images. Individuals pictured include Mrs. Scabby Bull, Ethel Black Wolf, Rabbit Run, Wolf Chase, Coal A Fire, Strik-em-First, Singing Man, Jay Gould, Big Timber, and Myrtle Bad Man, among others. Two views of the Arapaho camp and one of the Cheyenne camp are taken from a distance. The album also contains two photographs of Niagara Falls.
Description:
Manuscript captions throughout. and Photographer unidentified.
Subject (Geographic):
Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.)--Pictorial works, Niagara Falls (N.Y.)--Pictorial works, and Oklahoma--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians--Portraits, Cheyenne Indians--Portraits, Indian reservations--Oklahoma--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Tipis--Pictorial works
Internal evidence suggests that the album dates before 1902 (the year White Antelope, who is portrayed, died)., Photograph album by an unidentified photographer of Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa Indians, probably taken in or around the Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency in Darlington, Canadian County, Oklahoma. The outdoor scenes include a large number of family groups, women, and children, many identified with Americanized names., and There are also notable images of the baptism of a Kiowa man, the "crow dance," meat drying on racks, Arapaho school girls, and a single image of what appear to be not Indian women but white woman dressed in Indian clothing, identified as "Calumet Squaws" (Calument was a town close to the agency).
Description:
Individual photographs measure 10 x 12.5 cm, and have manuscript captions and numbers.
Subject (Geographic):
Darlington (Okla.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians--Pictorial works, Baptism--Pictorial works.--lctgm, Cheyenne Indians--Pictorial works, Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Agency (Okla.), Indian reservations--Oklahoma--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Kiowa Indians--Pictorial works, and Missionaries--Oklahoma--Pictorial works
Events documented include horseback trips to the White River, a powwow with traditional Lakota costume and dancing, mourners at a cemetery, Lakota women on horseback, and games of football and basketball. Images documenting agricultural events include threshing wheat and castrating calves., Informal portraits include individuals, couples, and groups. Specific student groups including a group of young women from Holy Rosary Mission school, the St. Francis Mission marching band, the St. Francis Mission football team, a dance troupe of girls, and a student theatrical group at the St. Francis Mission in costume and wearing blackface makeup. Informal portraits also depict Lakota people wearing modern and traditional costumes, in addition to Anglo American people wearing traditional Lakota costumes. The only identified individual is Peter Scherer, who directed the St. Francis Mission marching band in 1930-1931., Other images include exterior views of the missions, homes, farms, and oil wells, while interiors views exist of a gymnasium and dining halls at the missions., Photograph album of images created by Eugene Buechel of Oglala Lakota and Sicangu Lakota people and environs in southern South Dakota, ca. 1928-1931., and The Jesuit priest, Eugene Buechel (1874-1954) served as a superior at the mission schools of Holy Rosary Mission (1908-1916), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and St. Francis Mission (1916-1923), Rosebud Indian Reservation, afterwards working to document Lakota language and culture in the region until his death.
Description:
Manuscript captions in German on the verso of several photographs, which are available on photocopies provided with the album. and Photographs in album 8.7 x 14.8 cm. and smaller.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Buechel, Eugene, Catholic Church--Missions--South Dakota, Jesuits--Missions--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.), Jesuits--Missions--Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.), and Scherer, Peter,--band director
Subject (Topic):
Brulé Indians--Pictorial works, Cemeteries--South Dakota--Pictorial works, Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies--Pictorial works, Mission schools, Oglala Indians--Pictorial works, and Teton Indians--Pictorial works
Schwemberger, George Charles, 1867-1931 Schwemberger, Simeon
Published / Created:
c1905-c1906.
Call Number:
WA Photos 28
Image Count:
53
Abstract:
Photographs of Navajo medicine and sweat lodge ceremonies, including views of the construction of the lodges, preparations for the ceremonies, sandpaintings, and participants. There are also photographs of family groups, the ruins in Canyon de Chelly, sheep and goat herds, and of foot and horse racing.
Description:
George Schwemberger joined the Franciscan order as a lay brother, adopting the name Simeon and moving to the mission at St. Michael's, Arizona in 1901. In late 1907 he left St. Michael's to open a photo gallery in Gallup, New Mexico. and Individual photographs are 11.6 x 16.6 cm., with copyright statement inscribed. Letterpress or manuscript captions accompany each photograph, 32 of which form a numbered series with descriptive captions.
Publisher:
Simeon Schwemberger,
Subject (Geographic):
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies, and Sweatbaths--Pictorial works.--aat
Photograph album documenting the activities of Salmon Day festivities in Keller, Washington, ca. 1930. The celebration by the Colville Indians occurred near the mouth of the San Poil River. Images include views of streets and buildings in Keller, spectators and participants at a rodeo, and of a mountainside horse "suicide race" from a distance. Identified individuals include rodeo participants Len Perkins of Yuma, Arizona, and Oran Fore of Newhall, California, and Colville Indians, Chief Jim James and Mary Hughes.
Description:
Individual photographs measure 12.5 x 18.0 cm. and smaller.
Subject (Geographic):
Keller (Wash.)--Pictorial works and San Poil River (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Fore, Oran, James, Jim,--Colville Indian chief, and Perkins, Len
Subject (Topic):
Colville Indians, Cowboys--Pictorial works, Festivals--Washington--Keller, Indian cowboys--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Rodeos--Pictorial works
Album of photographs of a rodeo with primarily American Indian participants, probably in the American southwest, ca. 1930. The images of action include men riding horses, steers, and bulls, in addition to roping and bulldogging steers. Other images show a man thrown from a horse and another depicts an injured man being attended to on the ground. Remaining images include American Indian women, possibly in connection with a rodeo queen contest, a wagon pulled by mules, and groups of people encamped, probably around the rodeo arena.
Description:
Individual photographs measure 11.2 x 16.5 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Beauty contests--United States--Pictorial works, Cowboys--Pictorial works, Indian cowboys--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Rodeos--Pictorial works
A series of images relate to the Mexican revolution including images of revolutionary troops, military installations, casualties, and dead federal soldiers at Cananea, Naco and Agua Prieta, Sonora. Several images show machine guns and artillery outside the machine shop of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, which Maderista revolutionaries under the command of General Alvaro Obregón had captured from General Pedro Ojeda at Naco, Sonora in April 1913., Images of locations in the city of Cananea include the Hotel Alexandria, Sonora Hotel, and city jail. Images of people in Cananea include a view of men in conversation on a street, with one of the men identified as George Wiswall, general manager of the Cananea Cattle Company, and the other man the revolutionary general, Alvaro Obregón; Thomas Keys driving an automobile; and a studio portrait of a Chinese man, identified as "Lee from the Hotel Alexandria" posed sitting in an automobile., Images of ranching activities include cowboys and ranchers riding horses, herding cattle, lassoing livestock, branding steers, eating around a chuck wagon, and competing in rodeos at locations on the Cananea Ranch, including corrals located in Moreta and San Juan, and a ranch house in Nogales. Images of identified cowboys and ranchers include Roy Adams, Arthur Dunbar, Dick Hays, William H. Holmes, Cal Musgrave, Sherman Rinehart, E. T. Strickland, Fred Walker, and Sam Watson, in addition to a division foreman, Donald G. Valentine, and Charles Wright, the corral boss of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company. Several men and horses are identified in images by their nicknames. Other images depict women wearing cowboy and ranch clothing, and include Elsie Holmes and Midge Burrows, and Miss Hacker of Cornado, Calif. An image shows a man tanning a mountain lion hide., Photograph album with images attributed to Elsie Holmes and William H. Holmes that document the ranching operations of the Cananea Cattle Company at the Cananea Ranch and the copper mining operations of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, primarily 1911-1914. William Cornell Greene, a rancher, mine owner, and investor, had established and operated both of these ventures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William Holmes was a ranch foreman at the Cananea Ranch., and Views of copper smelting operations for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, include images of ore bins, smelters, shops, and railroad yard. Several images show a crowd of Mexican miners awaiting a conference with James S. "Rawhide Jimmy" Douglas, Jr., the general manager of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company during a strike in April 1913. An additional image shows a group of men that includes Harry Gooding, after installing a steam turbine in the powerhouse at Cananea, ca. 1905.
Description:
Captions inscribed in some negatives., Individual photographic prints are 20.2 x 25.2 cm. and smaller, accompanied by manuscript captions., and Leather binding embossed with the initials "E. H." and a geometric design.
Subject (Geographic):
Cananea (Mexico)--Pictorial works, Cananea Ranch (Mexico)--Pictorial works, Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works, Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Pictorial works, and Sonora (Mexico : State)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Burrows, Midge, Cananea Cattle Company--Pictorial works, Cananea Consolidated Copper Co.--Pictorial works, Douglas, James S.--(James Stuart),--1868-1949, Dunbar, Arthur, Gooding, Harry, Greene, William Cornell,--1853-1911, Hays, Dick,--cowboy, Holmes, Elsie, Holmes, William H.,--cowboy, Hotel Alexandria (Cananea, Mexico)--Pictorial works, Musgrave, Cal, Obregón, Alvaro,--1880-1928, Ojeda, Pedro,--general, Rinehart, Sherman, Sonora Hotel (Cananea, Mexico)--Pictorial works, Strickland, E. T, Valentine, Donald G, Walker, Fred, Watson, Sam, Wiswall, George, and Wright, Charles,--cowboy
Subject (Topic):
Cattle--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, Chinese--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, Copper mines and mining--Mexico--Cananea, Ranch life--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, Ranches--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, and Ranching--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works
Photographs of the Hubbell Trading Post, Navajo Indian children and adults, Roman Hubbell and his wife, other people around the post, log hogans, a military camp, and the Grand Canyon. With inscribed calling card of the first Mrs. Roman Hubbell laid in.
Description:
82 prints are 9 x 14.5 cm., 7 prints are 8.2 x 8.2 cm. and smaller and are laid in loose., Blank album pages not digitized., Photographer(s) unknown., and The Hubbell Trading Post was operated by the Hubbell family at Ganado, Arizona. John Lorenzo Hubbell established the trading post in 1876; his son Roman Hubbell was active in operating the trading post from 1908 until his death in 1957.
Subject (Geographic):
Ganado (Ariz.)--Pictorial works and Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Ganado, Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Hubbell, Alma Dorr--Portraits and Hubbell, Roman--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, and Navajo Indians--Portraits
Photograph album relating to the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. Included are views of both male and female students as they participate in several activities, among them a dress parade, a gardening project at the school, the girls' basketball practices, and military-type drills and in band uniforms with their instruments. Also included are views of the graduating classes of 1903 and 1904, as well as a photograph of the faculty.
Description:
C. W. Goodman was superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School between 1902 and 1915. and Manuscript captions accompany most photographs.
Subject (Name):
Brodie, Alexander O. (Alexander Oswald), 1849-1918, Goodman, C. W, and Phoenix Indian School--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Arizona, Indians of North America--Education--Pictorial works, and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Photograph albums attributed to Frank Alfred Golder that document the efforts of the American Relief Administration in the vicinity of Samara, Russia, during the Volga Famine, and throughout Poland and Hungary, 1921-1922. Photographic prints show famine victims, including adults and children, and members of the American Relief Administration, as well as soup kitchens, sanitariums, local architecture, agricultural landscape, mountain ranges, and railroads.
Description:
Frank Alfred Golder (1877-1929) was a professor of Russian history at Washington State College and Stanford University, as well as a member of the American Relief Administration, a relief mission under the direction of Herbert Hoover and based in the United States and delivered to Europe and later Soviet Russia after World War I., The majority of the photographic prints measure 7.1 x 10.9 cm. and 9.0 x 11.6 cm., The photographic prints have few annotations., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Hungary--Pictorial works, Poland--Pictorial works, Samara (Russia)--Pictorial works, and Soviet Union--History--1917-1936--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Famines--Soviet Union--Volga River Valley--Pictorial works
