National Museum of the American Indian

F. Jay Haynes & Brothers colored cabinet cards

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.317
Creators:
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
Dates:
circa 1889
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
11 Cabinet photographs
colored
Repository:
This collection includes 11 colored cabinet cards that were part of a series called "Colored Cabinets of Noted Indians" published by F. Jay Haynes and Brothers in St. Paul, Minnesota around 1889. The photographs include images of Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke), Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux), and Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) leaders.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection includes 11 of the 12 colored cabinet cards published by F. Jay Haynes and Brothers, circa 1889, in the series "Colored Cabinets of Noted Indians." Published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the cabinet cards have rounded edges and include a listing of the full series printed on the back. The portraits include— Running Deer, Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke); Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka/Tatanka Yotanka), Hunkpapa Lakota; Jessie Iron Bull, Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke); Lewis Sitting Bull (Louie Sitting Bull/Sitting Bull, Jr.), Hunkpapa Lakota; Chief Rain In The Face (Iromagaja), Hunkpapa Lakota; Chief Joseph (Hinmuuttu-yalatlat[Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain]), Niimíipuu (Nez Perce); Big Medicine Man, Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke); Curley (Ashishishe), Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke); Chief Little Head, Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke); Yellow Dog, Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke); Chief White Bull (Joseph White Bull/Pte san Hunka), Hunkpapa Lakota/Minneconjou Lakota. Some of the portraits, though later published by Haynes, were originally made by other photographers such as David Barry and Orlando Scott Goff.
Catalog numbers include P19431-P19441.
Scope and Contents
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 As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology.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.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
F. Jay Haynes was a photographer who traveled extensively in the West and who was best known for his early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. He was also the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and for a time he even maintained a special railroad car equipped as a mobile photography studio which was called the "Haynes Palace Studio." He opened his first studio in 1876 in Moorhead, Minnesota, and in 1879 opened a larger studio in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1889 he began operating out of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he published his series of "Colored Cabinets of Noted Indians," among many other subjects. His photographs were widely published in articles, journals, books and turned into stereographs, and postcards in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Administration

Author
Rachel Menyuk
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Provenance information is still unknown, though the collection may have been part of an acquisition by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation from the Winchester Historical Society in 1962.
Processing Information
Processed by Rachel Menyuk, Processing Archivist, 2022

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Preferred Citation
dentification of specific item; Date (if known); F. Jay Haynes and Brothers colored cabinet cards , image #, NMAI.AC.317; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cabinet photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rain in the Face, approximately 1835-1905 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Joseph (Nez Percé Chief), 1840-1904 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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