Hill & Adamson. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870.Adamson, Robert
Published / Created:
ca. 1845
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 4
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait of the Reverend Peter Jones, also known as Waving Plume or Kahkewaquonaby, taken in England by the photographers David Hill and Robert Adamson. Jones is believed to be the first Native American to have been photographed.
Subject (Name):
Jones, Peter, 1802-1856--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Portraits and Missisauga Indians--Portraits.
Identified individuals include Anna Eustis, a Pawnee woman from Oklahoma, and a Brulé Sioux woman identified as the wife of Keeps the Mountain, probably Good Looking Woman. The unidentified woman wears a kerchief on her head and long beaded earrings., Studio portrait photographs of three Native American women and two Native American men., and Two of the photographs depict men with moustaches, possibly the same man. In one image he wears a paper pin on his lapel advertising "Banner Buggies", of the Banner Buggy Company, St. Louis, Missouri. In the other image he wears a round pin with a star-shaped symbol printed upon it.
Subject (Name):
Banner Buggy Co, Eustis, Anna, and Good Looking Woman,--1859-
Subject (Topic):
Brulé Indians--Pictorial works, Brulé Indians--Portraits, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Pawnee Indians--Pictorial works, and Pawnee Indians--Portraits
Photographs created by John Willis of individuals and events that document life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1993-2006.
Description:
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Badlands National Park (S.D.)--Pictorial works, Batesland (S.D.)--Pictorial works, Kyle (S.D.)--Pictorial works, Manderson (S.D.)--Pictorial works, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works
Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Iraq War, 2003-2011--Casualties--Pictorial works, Oglala Indians--Pictorial works, Powwows--Pictorial works, Public housing--United States--Pictorial works, Sweatbaths--Pictorial works, and Teton Indians--Pictorial works
Heller, Louis Herman, 1839-1928 Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Published / Created:
1864-1900.
Call Number:
WA Photos 335
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 20
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
Heller operated a photography studio in Yreka, California, 1864-1869, and in Fort Jones, California, 1869-1900. Images from both studios consist primarily of studio portraits of children, women, and men. Identified portraits from the studio in Yreka, include Henry M. Reid, and probably sisters Catherine E. Moore and Emily B. Moore. Identified portraits from the studio in Fort Jones, include Edward J. Baxter, Daniel Davis, Cora Kist, Naomi Swan, and Henry E. Witherspoon., Other photographs related to the Modoc Indian War include single and group portraits created by Heller and distributed by Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery documenting Modoc prisoners taken into custody and their captors. Portraits include Black Jim, Buckskin Doctor, Curley Headed Jack, John A. Fairchild, Hooka Jim, Donald McKay, One-Eyed Dixie, One-Eyed Mose, Scarface Charlie, Shacknasty Jim, Schonchin, Steamboat Frank, Wheum, in addition to Captain Jack and a portrait of his family., Stereograph cards include images related to the Modoc Indian War, including exterior group portraits of the United States military and allied Indians pursuing the Modoc force, views of the lava bed landscape, and the military headquarters of Tule Lake. Some stereograph cards also bear the imprint of the Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, which also distributed them., and Studio portrait photographs and incidental images primarily in Siskiyou County, California, created by Louis Herman Heller, 1864-1900, in addition to images related to the Modoc Indian War, the only major Indian war fought by the federal government in California, November 1872 - June 1873.
Subject (Geographic):
Etna (Calif.), Fort Jones (Calif.), Siskiyou County (Calif.), Tulelake (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and Yreka (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Baxter, Edward J, Curley Headed Jack, Davis, Daniel.--1880-1885, Fairchild, John A, Heller, Louis Herman,--1839-1928, Hooka Jim, Jack,--Captain, Modoc Chief,--d. 1873, Kist, Cora, and McKay, Donald
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Modoc Indians--Pictorial works, Modoc Indians--Portraits, Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873--Pictorial works, Prisoners--Portraits, and Soldiers--Pictorial works
