National Anthropological Archives

Guide to the Humphrey Lloyd Hime Photographs of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, 1858

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.4285
Creators:
Hime, H. L. (Humphrey Lloyd), d. 1903
Dates:
1858
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
34 Photographic prints
albumen, mounted on paper
Repository:
Photographs made by Humphrey Lloyd Hime for the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. Photographs show the Red River and prairie, settlements, farms, churches, watercraft, Cree and Ojibwa communities and individuals, and graves. The collection contains images of human remains.

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Photographs made by Humphrey Lloyd Hime during the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858, depicting Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North. They include images of Cree and Ojibwa people, settlements, dwellings, camps, churches, watercraft, and graves.

Arrangement note

Arrangement note
Photographs are numbered and arranged in sections accordance with their order in Henry Youle Hind's 1860 folio, Photographs take at Lord Selkirk's Settlement of the Red River of the North. Section titles are also from folio.

Biographical Note

Biographical Note
Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903) was a photographer and surveyor with the firm "Armstrong, Beere, and Hime, Civil Engineers, Draughtsmen and Photographists" in Toronto, Ontario. In 1958 Hime was hired as the photographer for Henry Youle Hind's Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition.

Historical Note

Historical Note
The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 was commissioned by the Canadian Government to establish a reliable trade route between Lake Superior and the Red River. The Hudson's Bay Company's permit to trade exclusively in the Canadian interior was set to expire in 1859. To procure an extension, a thorough investigation of the area to document its topography, vegetation, native life, and settlement potential was required. Under the charge of Professor Henry Youle Hind, a geologist and naturalist at Trinity College in Toronto, the explorers were instructed to obtain comprehensive geographic information that would help to create maps illustrating the natural and cultural features of the land between the Saskatchewan and Assiniboine rivers.

Administration

Author
Jennifer Hawkins, Gina Rappaport
Custodial History
The NAA has no record of how or when the prints came to the Bureau of American Ethnology. David I. Bushnell published two of Hime's photographs in BAE Bulletin 77 (1922), and indicated that the collection was in the Bureau of American Ethnology at that time.
Processing Information note
Image descriptions were taken primarily from Hime and Hind's descriptions.
The collection was processed by Jennifer Hawkins, 2010.
Finding aid encoded by Sarah Ganderup, 2014 and Gina Rappaport, 2019.

Using the Collection

Preferred Citation note
Photo Lot 4285, Humphrey Lloyd Hime Photographs of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open to the public.
The collection contains images of human remains.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.

More Information

Note on Description

Note on Description
Collection and image descriptions provided in this finding aid were compiled using the best available sources of information. Such sources include the creator's annotations or descriptions, collection accession files, primary and secondary source material (i.e. documents, publications, and websites), and subject matter experts. While every effort is made to provide accurate information, it is understood that errors may reveal themselves following review by other subject experts, and new information is welcome.

Bibliography

Bibliography
Bushnell, Jr.,David I.
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin. 77, Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922.
Greehhill, Ralph. "Early Canadian Photographer, Humphrey Lloyd Hime."
Image: The Bulletin of The George Eastman House of Photography
. 11, no. 3 (1962): 9-11.
Hind, Henry Y.
Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North, to illustrate a narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions in Ruperts Land
. London: J. Hogarth, 1860.
Hind, Henry Y.
Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858
. London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860.
Huyda, Richard. "Exploration Photographer: Humphrey Loyd Hime and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858."
MHS Transactions
3, no. 30 (1974)


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Manitoba Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Northeast Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cree Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Subarctic Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Saskatchewan Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Red River Settlement Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fort Garry (Man.) Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hind, Henry Youle, 1823-1908 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hudson's Bay Company Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 1771-1820 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Assinniboine & Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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