George W. Fox Collection of American Indian ledger drawings and photographs

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George W. Fox Collection of American Indian ledger drawings and photographs

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Ledger drawings by American Indians and photographs collected by George W. Fox, 1867-circa 1885. Ledger drawings in the collection include two discrete disbound volumes created in 1876 by Wohaw, a Kiowa Indian, and Soaring Eagle, a Cheyenne Indian. Photographs include portraits of American Indians and views of Indian Territory by William Stinson Soule, as well as portraits of American Indian students and views by John Nicholas Choate related to the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The collection also includes stereograph portraits of American Indian prisoners at Castillo de San Marcos (Fort Marion) in Saint Augustine, Florida, by photographers O. Pierre Havens and George Pierron. Other photographs include views of sites along the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway in Texas by Peter Fassold and Samuel Burnett Hill , as well as other images of Texas and California by Charles Turner Collier and August R. Mignon.

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Soule, William Stinson, 1836-1908

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William Stinson Soule (born August 28, 1836, Turner, Maine-died August 12, 1908, Boston), American photographer, began working in a photographic studio in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. In 1868, Soule moved to Fort Dodge, Kansas, where he established a part-time photographic studio. From ca. early 1870s until ca. 1874, Soule worked at Camp Supply and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was photographer of the new fort. Ca. 1874, Soule moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he operated a photographic studi...