Frank A. Rinehart and Roland W. Reed photograph collection
Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)
Muhr, Adolph F., -1913
0.25 Linear feet
This collection consists of 43 photographic prints of Native American peoples from throughout North America. Dating from 1882 to 1913, the images in this collection document a variety of Native American communities and events, including the U.S. Indian Congress which took place at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska. Photographers include Frank A. Rinehart, Adolph F. Muhr, and Roland W. Reed, as well as a series of images by an unknown photographer who also documented American Indian life.
MS 1747 Apache vocabulary
Dickens, Richard, Tonto Apache, Mrs.
Naltway, Ralph, Apache
Information obtained from Pauline, a Tonto-Apache woman married to Richard Dickens, a Mohave-Apache man living at McDowell, Arizona; and Ralph Naltway, Carlisle School, Class 1891, of San Carlos.
MS 179 A History of the Apache Indians of Arizona Territory
Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Includes description of Cochise, page 11.
MS 7211 Description of a basket in the USNM collection
Writer claims the basket is the largest ever brought into the San Carlos agency. The basket was made by Nets-a-dis-pat, wife of Chilchuana. Note largely concerns the price of the basket and obtaining it for the museum. Notes suggests there was also a photograph but it has not been located …
Helen L. Peterson papers
The Helen Peterson collection includes correspondence, notes, miscellaneous administrative documents, financial records, calendars, questionnaires, notes from interviews, survey forms, copies of resolutions, proceedings, speeches, programs, press releases, printed and processed material, and many other types of documents. Mainly these relate to Petersons's career and special interests between 1953 and 1970. There are also a few documents that concern the organizations which Peterson served for periods preceding or following her periods in office. Of special interest are the materials related to the NCAI, many of which supplement the records in that organization's files. The collection also includes documents that concern a wide range of Indian interests and activities.
Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill collection
Churchill, Clara G.
bulk 1899-1909
3 Linear feet
1430 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
325 Lantern slides (colored)
The Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill collection includes photographic negatives, photo albums, lantern slides, journals, scrapbooks and other documents created and compiled by the Churchills over the course of Frank's career as a special agent and Indian Inspector for the Department of the Interior between 1899 and 1909. Initially assigned as a revenue collector to the Cherokee Nation and later as an Indian Inspector reviewing boarding schools, Frank's assignments took him all over the United States including Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma), Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California, Florida, North Carolina and Alaska. During this time the Churchills visited over 80 different Native communities shooting photographs and taking notes.
Devil dance, and battle scene
Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans
The collection includes hand-colored glass lantern slides collected by Dr. Carlos Montezuma and used for his lectures on Native American rights. Many of the photographs are portraits, some made at Ft. McDowell and Fort Apache. Other images show schools, reservations, dwellings, Charles Dickens (a Yavapai store owner), Montezuma's Castle, Casa …
Jacques Noel Jacobsen photograph collection of American Indian scouts
Copies of photographs depicting American Indian scouts with various United States Army detachments. The collection includes group portraits of Indian scouts at Fort Grant in 1898; as well as images of Sioux scouts in 1870; Pawnee scouts; Apache scouts at San Carlos, circa 1893; Dakota followers of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock reservation …
William W. Wotherspoon collection of Goyathlay (Geronimo) and Chatto photographs
This collection contains 5 photographs of that were collected by William W. Wotherspoon that depict Goyathlay (Geronimo) and Chatto. The bulk of the photos were shot while Goyathlay and Chatto were a prisoners of war at the Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama from 1888-1894.
