Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1854-1934
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
D.F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa Indians
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-92
Abstract
Studio portraits of Hunkpapa chiefs Crow King, Gall, Sitting Bull, and Rain in the Face, as well as Standing Holy (Sitting Bull's daughter), Shooting Star (identified as a Sioux woman), and D.F. Barry with Rain in the Face. The images were taken at Fort Buford in 1881, at Bismarck in 1885, and possibly elsewhere in the Dakota Territory, but most of them were printed from the negatives and sold from Barry's Superior, Wisconsin, studio in the 1890s or later.
Dates:
approximately 1881-1920
Elmo Scott Watson papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Watson
Abstract
Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.
Dates:
1816-1951; Majority of material found within 1920-1951
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
Irving Samuel Cutter Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3221
Abstract
Mainly research materials (correspondence, biographical information, articles) gathered for an article on Henry Rinalda Porter, a surgeon at the Battle of Little Big Horn, with photographs of Porter, the Custer battlefield, and Indians involved in the fight. Also includes a George Crook letter and sketches by Charles M. Russell.
Dates:
1884-1934
Olin D. Wheeler Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3220
Abstract
Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.
Dates:
1892-1924