Cartes-de-visite photographs created by photographers in the United States and Canada of Indians of North America, ca. 1860-1875. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting men in traditional clothing, with a few examples of women and children. Tribal groups represented include Dakota, Fox, Navajo, Paiute, Paloos, Sauk, Shoshoni, Ute, and Yankton. Identified individuals include Spotted Tail, a Dakota chief; and Wolf Necklace (Harlish Washshomake), a Paloos chief. Another identified image consists of a copy photograph of a painting of Keokuk based on a daguerreotype made by Thomas Easterly in 1847 and Photographers and galleries represented include: A. W. Barker, Ottawa, Kansas; W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car; Charles Williams Carter, Salt Lake City, Utah; John N. Choate, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; William R. Cross, Niobrara, Nebraska; Duffin & Caswell, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Howard, Fort Bridger, Wyoming; Jackson Brothers Photography, Omaha, Nebraska; S. Park, Brantford, Ontario; Charles Roscoe Savage, Salt Lake City, Utah; Smith, Peabody, Kansas; A. W. Witherell, Keokuk, Iowa
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Barker, Anthony, 1930-, Bliss, W. P., Carter, Charles Williams., Choate, John N., Cross, W. R. (William R.), Hamilton, C. L., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848., Mautz, Carl., Savage, C. R. 1832-1909. (Charles Roscoe),, Spotted Tail, 1823-1881., Witherell, A. W., Duffin & Caswell., and Jackson Brothers Photography.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Fox Indians, Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Paiute Indians, Paloos Indians, Sauk Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Ute Indians, and Yankton Indians
Cartes-de-visite photographs created primarily by photographers in San Francisco and northern California, ca. 1855-1895. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting children, women, and men, in single, couple, and group sittings. Individuals in the images comprise various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Asian American and African American persons. The portraits also include persons with unique physical features, including midgets, dwarves, and giants. Occupations and group memberships represented in the portraits include butchers, circus performers, freemason, miners, musicians, sailors, and soldiers. Other images include portraits of dogs, and copy photographs of drawings, paintings, and dolls, Portraits of identified individuals include Baby Belmont, Frederick Coombs, Tom Coughlan, Tony Denier, Issac Sherwood Halsey, Little Clara Jenkins, Henrietta Lichau, and Eugenie Olanie. Other identified individuals include: Mollie Brown, a bareback somersault horse rider; A. Kerpen, a man with an eight-foot long beard; William Ingraham Kip, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California; and two scholars in academic gowns, presumably from the University of California, George F. Stone and viticulturist Emmett Rixford, Individual photographers with galleries located in San Francisco include: T. A. Brown, John M. Bryan, Alexander Edouart, Sr., Oscar Foss, John D. Godeus, Thomas Houseworth, Benjamin Franklin Howland, J. Jackson, John Lucas Kingsley, Henry Kruse, Charles Lainer, H. Luther, Charles Albert Marston, George Daniels Morse, Eadweard Muybridge, Silas Wright Selleck, Jacob Shew, William Shew, Joseph Trinidad Silva, Hector William Vaughn, Carleton E. Watkins, John A. Winberg, and Lai Yong, Corporate photographic galleries and partnerships located in San Francisco include: Bayley & Winter, Bradley & Rulofson, Brown & Otto, Chalmers & Wolfe, City Mart Photographic Gallery, Currier & Winter, Edouart & Cobb, Hamilton & Kellogg, Hoebel & Luther, Houston's Excelsior Gallery, I. W. Taber & Company, Lawrence & Houseworth, New York Gallery, Peoples Art Gallery, Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, and Wise & Prindle, Individual photographers in other locations throughout California include: Joseph P. Lowe of Auburn; H. H. Frye of Chico; George W. Valleau of Colusa; H. H. Halsey of Dutch Flat; Amasa Plummer Flaglor of Eureka; Ellison Lassell Crawford of Georgetown; S. Johnson of Gilroy; Lewis Jackson Stinson of Marysville; Edward Abraham Kusel of Oroville; L. Dowe and George Ross of Petaluma; Flave H. Gaines of Red Bluff; A. P. Bailey and John A. Todd of Sacramento; James Atkins Clayton of San Jose; H. Schoene of Santa Clara; John E. D. Baldwin of Santa Cruz; John Pitcher Spooner of Stockton; Murry Dunham and James Girard Smith of Vallejo; Issac Sherwood Halsey of Volcano; and Skelton Sanford Noble and B. F. Stevens from unidentified locations, and Photographic galleries and partnerships in other locations throughout California include: Mains & Von Hasseln of Camptonville; Bluett & Fardon and Dunham & Lathrop of Oakland; Sanders & Stinson of Marysville; and Abell & Welsh of Roseburg, Oregon
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Digital version available; and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Abell, Frank George, Jr., 1844-1910., Bailey, A. P., Baldwin, John E. D., Bayley, Wilbur Fisk., Bluett, William H., Bradley, Henry William, 1813-1891., Brown, T. A., photographer., Bryan, John M., Chalmers, James Calder, Jr., Clayton, James Atkins, 1831-1896., Cobb, David., Coombs, Frederick, 1803-1874., Coughlan, Tom., Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895., Currier, Amos., Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917., Dunham, Allen Murray, ca. 1834-ca. 1924., Dunham, Murry., Edouart, Alexander, 1818-1892., Fardon, George Robinson, 1807-1886., Flaglor, Amasa Plummer, 1848-1918., Foss, Oscar., Frye, H. H., Gaines, Flave H., Godeus, John D., Halsey, Henry H., Halsey, Isaac Sherwood, 1828-1895., Hamilton, Charles F., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., Jenkins, Clara., Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875., Johnston, Amasa Park, ca. 1837-1931., Kellogg, Andrew J., Kingsley, John Lucas, ca. 1939-1869., Kip, William Ingraham, 1811-1893., Kruse, Henry., Kusel, Edward Abraham., Lainer, Charles., Lathrop, Frank Henry., Lawrence, George S., Lichau, Henrietta., Lowe, Joseph P., Mains, James Riley., Marston, Charles Albert., Mautz, Carl., Morse, George Daniels., Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904., Noble, Skelton Sanford., Olanie, Eugenie., Prindle, Edward H., Rixford, Emmett H., Ross, George, 1832-1893., Rulofson, William Herman, 1826-1878., Sanders, Stephen Poole., Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885., Shew, Jacob, 1826-1879., Shew, William J., 1820-1903., Silva, Joseph Trinidad., Smith, James Girard, 1836-, Spooner, John Pitcher, 1845-1917., Stevens, B. F., Stinson, Lewis Jackson., Stone, George F., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Todd, John A., 1827-1899., Valleau, George W., Vaughn, Hector William., Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916., Welsh, John Oliver, ca. 1840-ca. 1913., Winberg, John A., Winter, Daniel., Winter, Robert, ca. 1821-1893., Wise, James H., 1812-, Wolfe, Samuel Augustus., Yong, Lai., Abell & Welsh., Bayley & Winter., Bluett & Fardon., Bradley & Rulofson., Brown & Otto., City Mart Photographic Gallery., Currier & Winter., Dunham & Lathrop., Edouart & Cobb., Foss & Halsey., Freemasons, Hamilton & Kellogg., Hoebel & Luther., Houston's Excelsior Gallery., I. W. Taber & Company., Mains & Von Hasseln., Peoples Art Gallery., and Sanders & Stinson.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Asian Americans, Photographers, Circus performers, Dolls, Dwarfs (Persons), Giants (Folklore), Miners, Musicians, Sailors, Soldiers, and Tall people
