National Anthropological Archives

William S. Soule photographs of Native Americans and camps in Kansas and Oklahoma, 1867-1874

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.3912
Creators:
Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908
Dates:
1867-1874
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Album
albumen
92 Prints
Album
silver gelatin
30 Prints
albumen (mostly cabinet cards)
42 Prints
silver gelatin
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Photographs by William S. Soule of Native Americans and camps in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kansas and Camp Supply and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Tribes represented include Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Wichita.
One albumen print mounted on a card with C. W. Carter's photographer imprint, though the photograph was made by Soule. One album includes silver gelatin prints made from original Soule negatives by Henry G. Peabody.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note
William Stinson Soule (1836-1908) was the photographer at Fort Sill (now in Oklahoma) from its founding in 1869 to the end of the Indian campaigns in 1874-1875. Soule moved from New England circa 1868, first working as a photographer at Fort Dodge, Kansas, then at Camp Supply with General Philip Sheridan's campaigning troops. As the photographer for the United States Army at Fort Sill, he photographed the construction of the fort as well as many of the people and events associated with the Indian Wars. Soule left Fort Sill in 1875 to return to Boston where he joined his brother's Soule Photograph Co. and then operated the Soule Art Company until his death.

Administration

Author
Sarah Ganderup
Existence and Location of Copies note
Digital surrogates are available online. Copy negatives are on file for all the subjects in this album, although not necessarily copied from these particular prints.
Custodial History note
Album of silver gelatin prints, originally MS 3912-A, was obtained in February 1937 from Henry G. Peabody, a Pasadena, CA, publisher of educational slides and films. In a letter dated March of that year, Peabody states that he became acquainted with W. S. Soule in 1886, when Soule was senior partner in the Soule Photographic Co. in Boston.
Custodial History note
Album of albumen prints as well as some of the unmounted prints and cabinet cards, originally MS 3912-b, was donated by Lucia A. Soule, William S. Soule's daughter, in May 1955.
Custodial History note
Eighteen cabinet cards, originally MS 3912-c, may have been collected in the Bureau of American Ethnology over many years and from various sources. One copy of the portrait of Big Bow is marked for the printer in James Mooney's handwriting, and was used in the BAE's 17th Annual Report.

Digital Content

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Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Preferred Citation note
Photo Lot 3912, William S. Soule photographs of Native Americans and camps in Kansas and Oklahoma, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Location of Other Archival Materials

Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional Soule photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4599, MS 4791, MS 2531, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 97-6, and the BAE historical negatives.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Henry G. Peabody and Lucia Soule relating to this collection held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Bureau of American Ethnology general correspondence.
Location of Other Archival Materials
The Huntington Library Photo Archives holds the Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Lucia A. Soule also donated a Lincoln peace medal, which was transferred to the US National Museum, Department of History, in Accession 205943.

Contained in

Contained in
Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)

More Information

Local Call Number(s)

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 3912

Other Finding Aids note

Other Finding Aids note
Digital surrogate of inventory and letters from Henry G. Peabody available online.

Addl. KW Subj

Addl. KW Subj
Plains Apache


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Inunaina (Arapaho) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Niuam (Comanche) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southern states Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Caddo Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wichita Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kiowa Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Camps Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kansas Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Oklahoma Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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