Native Americans Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2031
Scope and Content
The Native Americans Photograph Collection is an artificial collection created to hold photographs from various donors relating to Indian tribes of the Upper Great Plains. The first two folders contain portraiture, mostly taken by F. Jay Haynes likely in the 1880s. The people featured are: Grey Bear, Running Deer, Hailstone, Chief Little Head, Chief White Bull, Me Catchem, Two Moon, Little Moon, Boy In The Water, Sitting Bull [engraving], Curley, Big Medicine Man, Bear Coat, Yellow Dog, Jessie [Iron Bull’s daughter], and several group photos. The third folder holds images of Earth Lodges. Two are color postcards of reconstructed earth lodge buildings, and one is a 1928 Hidatsa earth lodge south of Van Hook taken by Russell Reid. The fourth folder contains thirteen photographs and one postcard. They are mostly of social scenes such as pow-wows, and artifacts. Most are taken by North Dakota Travel Department.
Dates
- 1880s-1980s
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection remain with the original creator or in the public domain.
History
Artificial collection created by archives staff, for general photograph of indigenous people of North Dakota and the Upper Midwest.
Extent
41 Photographic Prints (41 photographic prints)
3 Postcards (3 postcard)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Artificial collection created by archives staff, for general photograph of indigenous people of North Dakota and the Upper Midwest.
Provenance
Multiple donors.
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Native Americans Photograph Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu