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National Museum of the American Indian
Ida Roff Fick collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.217
- Creators:
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Fick, Ida Roff
- Dates:
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circa 1898-1902
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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276 Photographs0.2 Linear feet
- Repository:
This collection contains 276 photographs and documents that were collected by Episcopal missionary and teacher Ida Roff Fick working in Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory circa 1898-1902. Most of the photographs are believed to have been taken by amateur photogarapher Annette Ross Hume (1858-1933).
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
N41392, N41421, N41434-37 P19866-69, P20203-P20465, P20783-84
This collection contains 276 photographs and documents that were collected by Episcopal missionary and teacher Ida Roff Fick working in Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory circa 1898-1902.
The photographs depict scenes in Oklahoma Territory, primary Anadarko region and features portraits of Wichita, Kiowa, Niuam (Comanche), Oklahoma Delaware peoples; daily activities; reservation schools; beef issues; leisure such as games. The bulk of the photographs depict the land allotment registration and auction process in 1901 when "surplus" lands were open to non-Indian settlers and the establishment of Anadarko town.
It is unclear if Ida Roff Fick only collected the photographs or if she photographed some of them herself. It is believed that most of the photos were likely photographed by Annette Ross Hume, with whom Ida Roff boarded with until her marriage in 1902. A handful of photographs in this collection are also attributed to other photographers including George Addison, Russell and Miller Co, and William E. Irwin, among others.
The paper materials in this collection include correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, and notes written and collected by Ida Roff Fick, circa 1897-1955.
Content warning
Content warning
Please note that the language and terminology used in this collection reflects the context and culture of the time of its creation, and may include culturally sensitive information. As a historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement
Arrangement
Arranged by catalog number.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Ida Roff was born in New York City on May 3, 1868. In the late 1880s, Ida Roff Fick graduated from Hunter Normal School and then traveled to Oklahoma Territory to work as a missionary and Sunday school teacher. She also taught the art of lace making to the Native women she worked with as part of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church. She boarded with Annette Ross Hume (1858-1933) On Dec. 18, 1902, Ida Roff married Henry L. H. Fick. Ida Roff Rick died on February 16, 1960.
The biography of Annette Ross Hume below is from the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture on the Oklahoma History Society website.
"Annette Ross Hume, Amateur photographer and clubwoman Annette Ross Hume, daughter of James and Catherine Darling Ross, was born on March 8, 1858, in Perrysburg, Ohio. Annette Ross married Dr. Charles R. Hume on December 27, 1876, and in 1890 they moved to Anadarko, where Dr. Hume was agency physician for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita. Of five children, two sons survived, Carleton Ross and Raymond Robinson.
In the late 1800s, with the advent of light-weight cameras and less toxic chemicals, middle-class women enjoyed photography as a hobby. For twenty years beginning in 1891 Annette Hume photographed American Indians (including Geronimo and Quanah Parker) living near the agency as well as the settling of Anadarko after the land lottery in 1901. Her photographs, numbering more than seven hundred, add imagery to history as Oklahoma Territory transformed from reservations to towns and farm communities.
Before her death on January 19, 1933, in Minco, Oklahoma, Hume, a Presbyterian, was president of the Women's Territorial Synodical Society. Inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1930, she was a charter member of the Anadarko Philomathic Club, organized in 1899, and had served as president of the Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs from 1913 to 1915. She wrote An Historical Sketch of the Federation of Women's Clubs of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, 1898–1908, published at Anadarko in 1908."
Administration
Author
Emily Moazami
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Margaret Cronk to the Museum of the American Indian in 1962.
Separated Materials
This collection includes drawings and watercolors by children in the class of Ida Roff that are housed in NMAI's object collections under catalog #s: 23/1620 - 23/1623
Processing Information
Collection processed by Emily Moazami, Supervisory Archivist, 2023.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Use
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Conditions Governing Access
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Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ida Roff Fick collection, image #, NMAI.AC.217; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Related Materials
Related Materials
Other Annette Ross Hume photographs can be found at the University of Oklahoma; the Annette Ross Hume Collection at the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center; and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
More Information
Bibliography
Bibliography
The following publication contains detailed information and context for Annette Ross Hume's photographs:
Life at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency: THe Photographs of Annette Ross Hume
published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2010.Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiowa | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Niuam (Comanche) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Oklahoma Delaware | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Wichita | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Repository Contact
National Museum of the American Indian
4220 Silver Hill Rd
Suitland, Maryland 20746-2863
nmaiarchives@si.edu
