George Bird and Elizabeth Curtis Grinnell photograph collection

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George Bird and Elizabeth Curtis Grinnell photograph collection

1902-1910

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.140

The core of this photographic collection (1902-1904) was taken during Grinnell's visits among the Northern (Montana, Rosebud County and Rosebud River, Lame Deer) and Southern (Washita County, Oklahoma) Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne). The photographs document domestic and daily life on the reservation (especially activies involving women), religious ceremonies, camps and dwellings, and important officials. The attributions of the photographs in this collection are far from certain. While many of these images appear to have been taken by Grinnell himself, a substantial portion were also taken by his wife Elizabeth Curtis Grinnell (b. 1876) and their friend Julia E. Tuell. A very small subset of these images (3) also depicts mountains and vistas in Glacier National Park (Flathead County, Glacier County) Montana.

119 Negatives (photographic) (119 glass plate negatives, black and white, 7 x 9 in.)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658095

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

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Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938

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George Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 20 Sept. 1849. His father prospered after the Civil War with a wholesale dry goods business. He eventually developed an investment firm in which he hoped his son would develop an interest. While a student at Yale University, however, young Grinnell went on a fossil and dinosaur expedition to the west led by Professor O.C. Marsh. By 1874 Grinnell dissolved the investment firm his father had founded and moved to New Haven, Conn., to work with Mar...

Tuell, Julia E.

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