Sidney S. Wilson and family photographs from Pima Indian Agency

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Sidney S. Wilson and family photographs from Pima Indian Agency

1884-1885; 1915; 1933

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.156

This collection includes negatives and photographic prints shot or collected at the Pima Indian Agency, now the Gila River Reservation, by Sidney S. Wilson and family members Florence Wilson and Roswell G. Wheeler. Sidney Wilson's sister Florence worked as a teacher at the Agency school during the winter of 1884-1885 while their uncle Roswell Wheeler served as the Indian Agent.

10 Negatives (photographic); 11 Photographic prints

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658083

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Wilson, Florence L., fl. 1884.

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Miss Florence L. Wilson was later Mrs. E. E. Flickinger. The letters were preserved by her mother, Mrs. Hepzibah Beula Smart Wilson. They were copied in several duplicates, and in this form distributed to the children of the author. When the letters were written Miss Wilson's uncle, Roswell G. Wheeler, had been appointed by President James A. Garfield as agent of the Pima Indians at a time when Geronimo was chief of the Apaches, ancient enemies of the Pimas. Bands of Mexicans were riding up from...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs

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United States bureau with responsibility for Indian relations. From the description of Letter, 1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699812 Develops and implements, in cooperation with tribal governments, Native American organizations, other federal agencies, state & local governments, and other interested groups, economic, social, educational, and other programs for the benefit and advancement of Indian and Alaska native people. Established in 1824 within the War Dept...

Gila River Indian Reservation (Ariz.)

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Wilson, Sidney S.

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Wheeler, Roswell G.

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