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American Indian histories and cultures. [Photographs], 1862-1985 1889-1920
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Electronic reproduction of photographs selected from the Edward E. Ayer Collection in the Newberry Library. The collections include photographs of individuals and groups (both American Indian and E...
Electronic reproduction of photographs selected from the Edward E. Ayer Collection in the Newberry Library. The collections include photographs of individuals and groups (both American Indian and European Americans), landscapes and settlements through Mexico, United States and Canada. Among the significant collections are the Seeing Indian Exhibition and BIA Relocation records, images of the pueblo of Taos in New Mexico by W.H. Jackson, stylistic portraits by Emma Freeman and works by Christopher C. Augur, E.A. Burbank, D.F. Barry and Elmo Scott Watson. There are photographs of individuals such as Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill and Red Cloud, as well as numerous photographs of the students and buildings of Indian boarding schools, including the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The photographs document the activities of the Office of Indian Affairs and later Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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- English
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- Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Title from home page; viewed on Nov. 29, 2013.
- The collection includes photographs by or of the following people: Christopher Columbus Augur, J. Edward Bacon, Dan Batisse, David Francis Barry, Ben Bearskin, C.M. Bell, Elbridge Ayer Burbank, William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill), W.R.Cross, Cut Nose, Lemuel S. Ellis, Andrew Jackson Faulk, L. Fetter, Emma B. Freeman, Alexander Gardner, B.H. Gurnsey, Benjamin A. Gifford, O.S. Goff, John K. Hillers, Caspar W. Hodgson, William Henry Jackson, George Wharton James, Joe Kazumura, Lee Moorhouse, A.S. Nicholson, Charles Picotte, George Pierron, Richard Henry Pratt, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, W.S. Soule, A.H. Thompson, J. Ebin Ward, Peter Weil, Leroy Wesaw, G. Ben Wittick, D.A. Wiley.
- Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library
Subjects
- North America -- Description and travel -- Photographs.
- Indians of North America -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.
- Indians of North America -- Portraits.
- Indian students -- United States -- Photographs.
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Photographs.
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs -- Photographs.
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Photographs.
- Indians of North America -- History -- Sources.
- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.