George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.

View manifest View in Mirador Viewer

Finding aid

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .

Object Details

Scope and Contents note

Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School. Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys. Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.

sova.naa.photolot.90-1

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3c6f12a20-b859-4219-a567-b2b3246a66be

Local Call Number(s)

NAA Photo Lot 90-1

Collector

Allen, George V.

Names

Albuquerque Indian School

Photographer

Alvord, Kellogg, & Campbell

Bailey & Whitesides

Bailey, Dix, & Mead

Publisher

Beal's Gallery

Photographer

Bennett & Brown

Black Hills View Company

Brooks Photo

Brubaker and Whitesides

C. Duhem & Bro.

Calfee & Catlin

Names

Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)

Photographer

Caswell & Davy

Names

Chilocco Indian Agricultural School

Publisher

Continent Stereoscopic Company

Photographer

Copelin & Son

Cosand & Mosser

Cunningham & Co. (1880-1889)

D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co.

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Eaton, of Ralston, Oklahoma

Publisher

Florida Club (Cooperative)

Names

Geological Survey (U.S.)

Photographer

Griffith & Griffith

Gurnsey & Illingworth

Hamilton and Hoyt

Hamilton and Kodylek

Hansard & Carden

Names

Haskell Indian Nations University

Photographer

Henry L. Shepard & Co.

Ingersoll View Company (St. Paul, Minnesota)

J.J. Reilly & Co.

Judd and McLeish

Keystone View Company

Kilburn Brothers

Lawrence & Houseworth

Leonard & Martin

M.S. Mepham & Bro.

Martin's Gallery

Montgomery Ward

Ramsour & Pennel

Reed & McKenney

Rodocker & Blanchard

Savage & Ottinger

Thomas Houseworth & Co

Underwood & Underwood

Publisher

Union View Company (Rochester, New York)

Names

United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)

Photographer

Universal Photo Art Co

Publisher

Webster & Albee (Rochester, N.Y.)

Photographer

Whitney & Zimmerman

Wittick & Bliss

Wittick & Russell

Names

Yankton Mission (Yankton Indian Reservation, S.D.)

Photographer

Young & Chase

Names

American Horse, 1840-1908

Photographer

Barker, George, 1844-1894

Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934

Batchelder, B. P. (Benjamin Pierce), 1826-1891

Bates, Edw. (Edward)

Beaman, E. O. (Elias Olcott), 1837-1876

Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893

Bell, William, 1830-1910

Benecke, Robert

Bennett, H. H. (Henry Hamilton), 1843-1908

Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903

Names

Big Bow Chief

Photographer

Blessing, S. T.

Blosser, J. A.

Names

Bogy, Lewis V. (Lewis Vital), 1813-1877

Photographer

Bonine, Elias A., 1843-1916

Brockham, William (of Morris, Minnesota)

Brown, William Henry, 1844-1886

Brubaker, C. B.

Buehman, Henry, 1851-1912

Calfee, H. B. (Henry Bird), 1848-1912

Carbutt, John, 1832-1905

Carter, C. W., 1832-1918

Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison)

Chase, D. B. (Dana B.)

Childs, B. F. (Brainard F.), ca. 1841-1921

Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902

Clark, George A. (George Alfred), 1936-

Climo, John Saunders

Cobb, William Henry, 1859-1909

Conklin, E (Enoch)

Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth, 1834-1878

Croft, Thomas

Cross, W. R. (William R.)

Currier, Frank, fl. 1890-1909

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

Curtis, George E., 1830-1910

Names

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900

Photographer

Cushing, W. H., fl. 1870-1889

Davis, S., fl. 1860-1880

Doremus, John P., 1827-1890

Eaton, E. L. (Edric L.), b. ca. 1836

Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877

Eisenmann, Charles, b. 1850

Flanders, Dudley P.

Forsyth, N. A. (Norman A.), 1869-1949

Fouch, John H., 1849-1933

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Godkin, William R.

Goodell, Abner Cheney, 1831-1914

Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943

Gurnsey, B. H. (Byron H.), 1833-1880

Hamilton, J. H. (James H.)

Names

Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923

Photographer

Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908

Hawkins, B.A.

Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921

Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason), 1827-1903

Heister, H. T., (Henry T.), -1895

Heller, Louis Herman, ca. 1839-1929

Heston, Wat

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925

Hook, W. E. (William Edward), 1833-1908

Names

Hough, Walter, 1859-1935

Photographer

Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931

Illingworth, W. H. (William H.), 1842-1893

Immke, Henry W.

Ingalls, George W., 1838-1920

Names

Iron Bull (Crow Indian chief)

Photographer

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Jacoby, W. H. (William H.), 1841-1905

Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), b. 1850

Johnson, W.S.

Names

Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928

Photographer

Kirkland, Geo. W. (George W.)

Knight, J. Lee

Landon, S. C. (Seth C.), b. 1825

Line, A. A.

Little, H.N.

Marshall, William I. (William Isaac), 1840-1906

Martin, Alex (Alexander), 1841-1929

Names

Mató-Tópe, Mandan chief, d. 1837

Photographer

Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)

Maynard, Hannah, 1834-1918

Maynard, Richard, 1832-1907

McIntyre, A. C. (Alexander Carson)

Meddaugh, J. E.

Mellen, Geo. E. (George Egbert), b. 1854

Mepham, Michael S.

Mitchell, Daniel S.

Names

Mix, Charles E.

Monroe, Mark, 1930-

Moran, John, 1831-1903

Photographer

Morrow, Stanley J.

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904

Newcomb, C. H.

Nims, F.A.

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Names

Ouray

Photographer

Palmer, A. A.

Parker, Joseph C.

Pierron, Geo. (George), b. 1816

Pollock, Charles, 1832-1910

Powers, F. F.

Raitt, T.G.

Randall, A. Frank

Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920

Names

Red Cloud, 1822-1909

Red Dog, Oglala chief

Red Shirt, 1845?-1925

Reilly, John James, 1838-1894

Reynolds, Joseph Jones, 1822-1899

Photographer

Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)

Rodocker, David (1840-1919)

Rothrock, George H.

Rudy, W. Ira

Russell, Andrew J.

Rutter, Thomas H., 1837-1925

Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909

Seaver, C. (Charles)

Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James)

Shipler, James William, 1849-1937

Names

Sitting Bull, 1831-1890

Publisher

Smith, O. C.

Photographer

Soule, John P.

Names

Spotted Tail, 1823-1881

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915

Photographer

Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917

Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912

Thorne, G.W.

Thurlow, J., 1831-1878

Towne, Bertram C.

Trager, George E.

Names

Two Guns White Calf, 1872-1934 (Piegan)

Photographer

Upton, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Weitfle, Charles, 1836-1921

Wendt, Julius M.

Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886

Williscraft, W.H.

Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903

Woodburn, J. R.

Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909

Addl. KW Subj

Navaho Tipai-Ipai Shoshone Mi'kmaq Sauk & Fox Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) Assiniboin Sioux Kansa (Kaw) Pueblo Pima (Akimel O'odham) Santo Domingo (Kewa) Chippewa Papago (Tohono O'odham) Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox Blackfeet San Felipe Tesuque Flathead

Place

Custer Battlefield (Montana)

Topic

Camps

Child care

Rites and ceremonies

Totem poles

Cookery

Wild west shows

Fishing

Hunting

Transportation

Dwellings

Indians of North America -- Northeast

Funeral rites and ceremonies

Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890

Indians of North America -- Southern states

Collector

Allen, George V.

Culture

Puyallup

Kumeyaay (Diegueño)

Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)

Tohono O'odham (Papago)

Kalispel (Pend d'Oreilles)

Indians of North America -- California

Taos Indians

Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)

Kickapoo

Laguna Indians

Pueblo

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)

Havasupai (Coconino)

Assiniboine (Stoney)

Isleta Pueblo

Mojave (Mohave)

Mewuk (Miwok)

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

Arctic peoples

Akimel O'odham (Pima)

Piipaash (Maricopa)

Iroquois

Hopi Pueblo

Modoc

A:shiwi (Zuni)

Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)

Washo Indians

A'aninin (Gros Ventre)

Tonkawa

Diné (Navajo)

Yavapai

Ute

Sauk

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)

Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Bannock

Shoshone

Cochiti Pueblo

Omaha

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New

Indians of North America -- Great Basin

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America

Choctaw

Sioux

Eskimos

Northwest Coast

Indians of North America -- Plateau

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)

Numakiki (Mandan)

Sahnish (Arikara)

Tlingit

Haida

Cree

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Acoma Pueblo

Quapaw Indians

Osage

Apache

Kaw (Kansa)

Umatilla

Shawnee

Fox

Pomo

Indians of North America -- Subarctic

Paiute

Seminole

Mi'kmaq (Micmac)

Niuam (Comanche)

Potawatomi

See more items in

George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier

Biographical/Historical note

George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.

Extent

67 Lantern slides

26 Negatives (photographic) (glass)

10 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate)

6 Autochromes (photographs)

50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)

1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))

239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))

96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)

21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)

Date

circa 1860-1935

Custodial History note

Purchased from George V. Allen, 1989.

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Identifier

NAA.PhotoLot.90-1

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Lantern slides

Negatives (photographic)

Autochromes (photographs)

Stereographs

Prints

Postcards

Citation

Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution