Photographic Study Collection

Spanning the history of photography, this collection brings together examples of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, cased photographs, stereographs, photographic postcards, silver gelatin prints, and more. The topics covered in the collection primarily focus on the general history of the American West.

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: Improvised Tent, Court House Lawn After Cyclone, Apr. 12/27, Rock Springs, Tex.

: In a Mallard Hole

: In line for Rations, Camp Tampa, Florida, U. S. A.

: In the Mountain's Heart - running out Copper Ore, Wilson Mine, Metcalf, Arizona; Forms part of Grand Canyon of Arizona Through the Stereoscope box set

: In the Village of Blackfeet Indians Near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana

: Inclines to the copper mines, Metcalf, Arizona; Forms part of Grand Canyon of Arizona Through the Stereoscope box set

: Indian Buffalo Hunt in the Wild West Show--Jamestown Exposition

: Indian Camp Fire Scene, Fort Marion, Fla.

: Indian Camp, Pendleton, Ore.

: Indian Chiefs in Okla.; L to R: Silverhorn (Haungooah), Kiowa; Anko, Kiowa; and Comanche Jack (Watchymansookwat), Comanche All three of these men were leaders on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation, in this period serving also as tribal policemen. Silverhorn had been imprisoned at Fort Marion, 1875-1878, where he was one of the more productive artists. Anko (Ankopaaingyadete, "In the Middle of Many Tracks") produced a unique, lunar calendar from August 1889-July 1892, during the period of the Ghost Dance unrest in Indian Territory. Watchymansookwat was a nephew of the prominent Comanche chief Ten Bears.