This collection contains content identified by the library as Culturally Sensitive to Indigenous People(s): Box 4, AP2809; Box 7, AP2852 and AP2853; and Box 10, AP2925, AP2926, and AP2927 are photographs of burial sites. For more information please see the Newberry Library’s policy on Access to Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials.

Mounted albumen prints and stereographs primarily of western Indians and western scenes, mostly ca. 1865-1875, taken by Alexander Gardner, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson and William S. Soule, plus a few others.

Gardner images include 64 large mounted prints, many entitled “Scenes in the Indian Country” and 98 stereographs which mainly document the 1868 Fort Laramie Indian Peace Commission meetings with the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow and Sioux tribes. Gardner’s large prints include Indian portraits and camp scenes, views of Ft. Laramie, its surroundings, and the peace negotiations. There are 19 views by John K. Hillers, many documenting the exploration of the Colorado River and the Southwest, and there are 27 Wyoming images, “Picturesque Views of the Rocky Mountain Scenery” taken by William Henry Jackson. The 22 prints by William S. Soule are mainly portraits of Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa chiefs, probably taken at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Some photographers remain unidentified, but other photographers represented are Henry A. Doerr, with 5 views of the Department of Texas in San Antonio, C.S. Fly, with 4 views of New Mexico, and 2 western scenes by Timothy H. O’Sullivan. The bulk of the stereographs are by Gardner regarding Fort Laramie and the area around it, but there are a few by Alfred A. Hart, C.R. Savage and John B. Silvis, showing the routes of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, plus some miscellaneous views of California, Salt Lake City and San Antonio.

This photographic collection also contains three large lithographic prints showing Mexican War military scenes in Vera Cruz, Monterey and Corpus Christi, 1846-1848