Photograph collection, ca.(1890-1900).

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Photograph collection, ca.(1890-1900).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122562653

This collection consists of twenty-eight photographs taken by S.O. Trippe. These photographs are of Mt. Vernon Barracks, Selma, and Cahaba, Alabama. The ten images of Mt. Vernon Barracks document not only the structures present but the Apache Indians that were imprisoned there as well. These photographs include a portrait of Geronimo, as well as a group shot of Geronimo and several of his fellow chiefs, including Nachez and Loco.The Selma images include images of African-Americans, a black cemetery, the Selma Guards in front of Hobb's Jewelry where Trippe worked, a picture of Senator Morgan and Senator Pettus, a picture of a mule drawn trolley, and the tomb of William Rufus King. The Cahaba photographs include images of the Cahaba ferry, the Dallas Academy, wells and several Cahaba homes.

28 items (3 folders).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6765580

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Geronimo, 1829-1909

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Geronimo, also known as Goyaałé, also known as The One Who Yawns'; born in Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, June 1829 – died, Fort Sill, Oklahoma February 17, 1909), prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands—the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi—to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahu...

Morgan, John Tyler

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King, William Rufus, 1804-1836

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Chihuahua.

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Nana

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Nachez,

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Pettus, Edmund Winston

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Loco

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Selma Guards (Ala.)

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Naiche, Chief Christian.

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Trippe, Silas Orlando,

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Silas Orlando Trippe was a jeweler and photographer. Born March 22, 1843, at Windman, Pa., Trippe was educated in the schools of Pennsylvania and when he was 19, enlisted in Co. K of the 109th New York infantry regiment, U.S. Army. He was wounded seriously at Cold Harbor and mustered into the reserves and out of service in 1865. In 1870, he moved to Selma where he worked in Hobb's jewelry store for twenty-five years. For thirteen years, Trippe belonged to the Selma Guards. Trippe was also an ama...