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
Argentum Photographic Services Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952 North Dakota Heritage Foundation Stemmens, Red. Frank Fiske and western photography Vyzralek, Frank. Frank Bennett Fiske
Published / Created:
1983
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 50
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
32
Abstract:
Accompanying leaflets consist of essays, "Frank Bennett Fiske," by Frank Vyzralek, and "Frank Fiske and Western Photography," by Rod Stemmens., Exterior portraits of Lakota men consist of an image of White Bull posed standing in a meadow holding a calumet, and an image of a man posed standing, wearing a feather headdress, and holding a bow, beaded quiver, and lance. An exterior view shows two council tipis decorated with depictions of horses., Group portraits of Lakota men include two Lakota men identified as wranglers, and an image of two Lakota men holding the outstretched wings of a dead golden eagle, with a man holding a rifle identified as Herbert Keeps Eagle. An additional studio portrait of nine unidentified men consists of three Lakota men and six white men in clerical dress, identified as priests at the mission., Lakota men portrayed include Black Bear, Gray Hawk, Iron Star, Kicks Iron, Kicks the Iron, One Bull, Rain in the Face, Red Fish, Red Fox, Sharp Horn Bull, White Bear, and Yellow Hawk. Studio portraits of Joe No Heart show him wearing traditional regalia in one and wearing contemporary clothing and a police badge in another. An additional studio portrait depicts Fiske as a child, holding a rifle, dressed in a fringed buckskin jacket and pants., Portraits originally created by Frank Bennett Fiske, primarily of Lakota (Teton) Indians, ca. 1895-1930. Most of the images were created at his photographic studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota, and most of the Lakota people in the images lived on the Standing Rock Agency. The photographic prints in these portfolios were printed from original and copy negatives by Argentum Photographic Services, Seattle, Washington, under the auspices of the North Dakota Heritage Society from original photographs in the Frank Fiske Photograph Collection of the State Historical Society of North Dakota,1983., Studio portraits of Lakota families include Paul Brave, his wife and their daughter; Red Fish and his daughters; and a family consisting of a man and two women with one of the women holding a coyote pup., and Studio portraits of Lakota girls and women include Mrs. Chasing Bear, Mrs. Jack Treetop, a girl from the Dunn family, and Mrs. Twin and her daughter.
Description:
In 2 boxes; box 1 digitized in its entirety. and Titles on cards mounted on cases: Portfolio I, Portfolio II. The Portfolio I card includes a reproduction of the image of Kicks Iron. The Portfolio I card includes a reproduction of the image of an unidentified man posed standing.
Publisher:
North Dakota Heritage Society,
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Yates (N.D.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Dunn family--Portraits, Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952, Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952--Portraits, Gray Hawk--Portraits, Iron Star--Portraits, Joe No Heart--Portraits, Kicks Iron--Portraits, Kicks the Iron--Portraits, and Loon--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Coyote--Pictorial works, Golden eagle--Pictorial works, Indian women--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--North Dakota--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--North Dakota--Portraits, Teton Indians--Pictorial works, Teton Indians--Portraits, and Tipis--Pictorial works
Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt), photographer
Published / Created:
ca. 1898.
Call Number:
WA Photos 88
Container / Volume:
Folder III. Sheets (10)
Image Count:
10
Description:
Photographs attached to 10 leaves of lined paper are heavily annotated, and depict trips to Rosebud agency or the Rock Creek sub-agency for rations or meetings, with views of the camps made along the way.
Subject (Geographic):
Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and South Dakota--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Indian reservations--South Dakota--Pictorial works, and Indians of North America--Pictorial works