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Photographs of Lakota Indians, Oglala Indians, and views of South Dakota and Nebraska
Title
[Photographs of Lakota Indians, Oglala Indians, and views of South Dakota and Nebraska].
Production
[Nebraska and South Dakota], [approximately 1871-1907]
Physical Description
24 photographic prints : b & w ; 20.4 x 12.8 cm. on mounts 21.6 x 13.4 cm and smaller.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Captions and image numbers in negatives.
Advertisement on verso of most mounts for W. R. Cross, Portrait and View Photographer.
Advertisement on verso of one mount for L. W. Stillwell, Indian Relics.
Label from L. W. Stillwell Minerals, Fossils and Indian Relics affixed on verso of some mounts.
Captions in English.
Provenance
Source unknown for seventeen photographs. Seven photographs purchased from Barney Chapman on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2010.
Biographical / Historical Note
W illiam Richard Cross (1839-1907) was a photographer in Nebraska and South Dakota. he owned galleries in Nebraska including Creighton (1871-1878) and Niobrara (1878-1890) as well as Hot Springs, South Dakota (1890-1907).
Summary
Photographs chiefly of Lakota Indians and Oglala Indians and views at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and sites in South Dakota and Nebraska, approximately 1871-1907.
Photographs of American Indians in South Dakota include Lakota Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the United States Army Cavalry, 7th Regiment, in January 1891. Images also document Omaha Indians at the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Individual portraits of American Indians alone and with others include war chief Gall, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, and a Yankton Sioux woman with a child, as well as Indian scouts with their commanding officer, Lieutenant Charles W. Taylor, and portraits of Sitting Bull, including a photograph with Buffalo Bill. Images of Indian police at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, include the chief of police George Sword with American Indian performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company.
Photographs of South Dakota include Fort Meade and sites along the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad, including a smelter in Deadwood and the arrival in Hot Springs of members of the National Association of Railway Surgeons in June 1893. A photograph also documents a sod house in Nebraska.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
W. R. Cross, Photographs of Lakota Indians, Oglala Indians, and Views of South Dakota and Nebraska. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
W. R. Cross, Photographs of Lakota Indians, Oglala Indians, and Views of South Dakota and Nebraska. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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