Primarily large format albumen prints, but also a few stereographs and carte de visites, of scenes in the Dakota Territory and of Indians residing within its borders, taken mainly during the 1850s and 1860s.

Dakota Territory photographs include views of Yankton, its buildings and its citizens; images of Forts Dakota and Randall taken by B.H. Gurnsey of Sioux City, Iowa; shots of the Congregational church and parsonage at Faulkton, of the Big Sioux River and Sioux Falls, and of Indian camps; carte de visite portraits of Governor Newton Edmonds and Indian chief Struck-by-the-Ree. Also, portraits of Andrew Jackson Faulk and his father, John Faulk (tintype copy of daguerreotype image); an 1860s print of a Pennsylvania oil well; a view of a pontoon bridge spanning the Missouri River at Nebraska City, Nebraska taken by Thomas W. Tolman; and an early 1890s group portrait of the South Dakota Board of Woman Commissioners for the World’s Columbian Exposition. Over half of the collection consists of 32 formal portraits of Sioux chiefs, braves and interpreters, representatives of Yankton, Santee and Teton tribes, taken in Washington, circa 1857 to 1867, during treaty negotiations between the Indians and the government. These studio portraits were mounted in oval frames at the Addis Gallery in Washington, D.C., probably by Antonio Zeno Shindler, who prepared an 1867 catalog for the first photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution.

Note: Almost all the Addis Gallery framed Indian portraits are also part of a collection owned by the American Philosophical Society and can be viewed online under the title A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection, 1852-1869. Also, these same prints and other photographs of many of the individuals are now on the Internet, located either by Indian or English name.