50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)
1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))
239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))
96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)
Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School.
Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys.
Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.
Biographical/Historical note:
George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.
Indians of North America -- Southern states Search this
Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
American Indian -- Wyoming Peace Commission Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
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The item is number 39 of an unidentified series.
Left to right: Brevet Major General Alfred H. Terry, Brevet Major General William S. Harney, Lieutenant General William T. Sherman, Sophie Mousseau, John B. Sanborn, Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, and General Christopher C. Auger.
see also BAE GN 03657
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09824100
Place:
Wyoming -- Fort Laramie
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Wyoming Peace Commission -- American Indian Search this
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Stereographs
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The item is number 215 in the series Photographic Gems of the Great Northwest. White men and American Indians are arranged in front of a frame building.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09870700
Other Title:
Photographic Gems of the Great Northwest
Crook's Expedition Against Sitting Bull 1876
"General Crook commissions Spotted Tail chief over Red Cloud's tribe, Red Cloud Agency, October 24, 1876"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 27 in the series Indians of the Colorado Valley. The photograph was taken on the expedition led by John Wesley Powell. The woman is standing on the rocks. See number 464 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Pictured are two tipis with people around them. A frame structure is visible behind the the tipis.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09871000
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V23188 of an unidentified series. The number 60 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to numbers 871, 998, and 1138 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 20957 of an unidentified series. The number 14 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to number 952 of Photo Lot 90-1. Numbers 1270 and 1291 of Photo Lot 90-1 are colorized versions of this image.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 21038 of an unidentified series. The number 1081 is stamped on the front of the photograph. In the foreground is a man in a canoe. In the background are several homes and many totem poles. The item is almost identical to number 527 of Photo Lot 90-1. The item is identical to numbers 663, 956, 957, and 1310 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09871500
OPPS NEG.91-979
Other Title:
"In the land of the totem poles, the Indian village of Kasaan, Alaska"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 21077 of an unidentified series. The number 47 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to number 959 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Stereographs
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The item is number 32610 of an unidentified series. The number I23 is stamped on the front of the photograph. He is wearing a peace medal and a Shriner's Club medallion.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09871700
Other Title:
"Two Guns White Calf, the Blackfoot Indian chief whose profile is on the buffalo nickel"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 11518 of an unidentified series. The number 244 is stamped on the front of the photograph. Indian men and a boy look at the camera, behind them the drying racks are loaded with fish. The item is identical to number 938 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09871800
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V8014 of an unidentified series. The number T146 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to numbers 931 and 947 of Photo Lot 90-1. See numbers 932 and 933 of the same photo lot for similar views.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09871900
Other Title:
"Dismantled towers and turrets broken; cliff palace in the Mesa Verde, Colorado"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V23199 of an unidentified series. The numbers 62 and 31 are stamped on the front of the photograph. A man is climbing a ladder in the foreground. The item is identical to number 882 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09872000
Other Title:
"Terrace homes of Hopi Indians. Street scene in Oraibi, Hopi Reservation, Arizona"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V23203 of an unidentified series. The numbers 72 and 37 are stamped on the front of the photograph. A male in a headdress and carrying a bow and arrows stands nearby. The item is identical to number 884 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09872100
Other Title:
"Navajo blanket weaving. An Indian hogan (hut) on the Navajo Reservation, Arizona"
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number V23200 of an unidentified series. The number 67 is stamped on the front of the photograph. This structure apparently is a store that houses Indian crafts for sale to tourists. The item is identical to number 883 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09872200
Other Title:
"Inside the Hopi Indian House. Artistic handiwork of natives. Grand Canyon, Arizona"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
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Archival materials
Stereographs
Photographs
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The item is number 23344 of an unidentified series. The number 73 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to number 909 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 11507 of an unidentified series. The item is identical to number 937 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09872400
Other Title:
"Group of Malamuts, Allenkaket, Alaska"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution