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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

D.F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa Indians

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-92
Abstract

Studio portraits of Hunkpapa chiefs Crow King, Gall, Sitting Bull, and Rain in the Face, as well as Standing Holy (Sitting Bull's daughter), Shooting Star (identified as a Sioux woman), and D.F. Barry with Rain in the Face. The images were taken at Fort Buford in 1881, at Bismarck in 1885, and possibly elsewhere in the Dakota Territory, but most of them were printed from the negatives and sold from Barry's Superior, Wisconsin, studio in the 1890s or later.

Dates: approximately 1881-1920

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  • Subject: Photographs -- Dakota Territory -- 1851-1900 X

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Albumen prints -- Dakota Territory -- 1851-1900 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Dakota Indians -- Photographs 1
Dakota Territory -- Photographs 1
Hunkpapa Indians -- Photographs 1