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Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection (Newberry Library)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Jackson Faulk collection of photographs of the Dakota Territory and Yankton, Santee, and Teton Sioux

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-Box-105
Abstract A collection of 56 photographs acquired by Faulk, mostly consisting of large-format albumen prints, but also a few stereographs and carte de visites. Dakota Territory scenes include views of Yankton, its buildings, and its citizens; photographs of Fort Dakota and Fort Randall by B. H. Gurnsey; the Congregational Church and parsonage at Faulkton; the Big Sioux River and Sioux Falls; and Indian camps. The collection also includes 32 oval portraits of Yankton, Brule, Two Kettle, and Santee...
Dates: approximately 1855-1909

Elmo Scott Watson photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-71-73, 87
Abstract

Primarily albumen and gelatin photographic prints plus five glass plate negatives which have been removed from the western history subject files of the Elmo Scott Watson Papers. Consists mainly of nineteenth and twentieth century portraits and images of Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow and Sioux Indians, some group photos, and a miscellany of half and full stereographs of non-western locations.

Dates: approximately 1860-1936

Filtered By

  • Subject: Indians of North America -- Dakota Territory -- Photographs X
  • Subject: Stereographs X

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Subject
Albumen prints -- Dakota Territory -- 1851-1900 1
Albumen prints -- West (U.S.) -- 1851-1900 1
Albumen prints -- West (U.S.) -- 1901-1950 1
Blackfeet Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- Photographs 1
Brulé Indians -- Photographs 1