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Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection (Newberry Library)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Christopher C. Augur collection of photographs of the western United States

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-Art-Augur
Abstract

Mounted albumen prints and stereographs primarily of western Indians and scenes, ca. 1865-1881, taken by Alexander Gardner, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, William Soule and a few other photographers, plus three large lithographic prints of Mexican War military scenes. Also, a box containing a stereoscopic viewer.

Dates: 1846-1889; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1875

Elmo Scott Watson photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-71-73, 87
Abstract

Primarily albumen and gelatin photographic prints plus five glass plate negatives which have been removed from the western history subject files of the Elmo Scott Watson Papers. Consists mainly of nineteenth and twentieth century portraits and images of Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow and Sioux Indians, some group photos, and a miscellany of half and full stereographs of non-western locations.

Dates: approximately 1860-1936

Filtered By

  • Subject: Cheyenne Indians -- Photographs X

Additional filters:

Subject
Albumen prints -- West (U.S.) -- 1851-1900 1
Albumen prints -- West (U.S.) -- 1901-1950 1
Arapaho Indians -- Photographs 1
Blackfeet Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- Photographs 1
Brulé Indians -- Photographs 1