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Hillers, John K., 1843-1925

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1843 - 1925

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Christopher C. Augur collection of photographs of the western United States

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-Art-Augur
Abstract

Mounted albumen prints and stereographs primarily of western Indians and scenes, ca. 1865-1881, taken by Alexander Gardner, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, William Soule and a few other photographers, plus three large lithographic prints of Mexican War military scenes. Also, a box containing a stereoscopic viewer.

Dates: 1846-1889; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1875

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

John K. Hillers photographs of Zuni, Hopi and Rio Grande River Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-94-96
Abstract

From 1879 to 1882, John K. Hillers traveled to the Southwest with Frank Hamilton Cushing and James Stevenson under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This collection of 72 photographic prints consists of Hillers’ photographic record of the pueblos, archeological ruins, and peoples of Arizona and New Mexico taken during this trip. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.

Dates: 1879-1882

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Subject
Cheyenne Indians -- Photographs 2
Crow Indians -- Photographs 2
West (U.S.) -- Photographs 2
Albumen prints -- Southwest, New -- 1851-1900 1
Albumen prints -- West (U.S.) -- 1851-1900 1