Smithsonian Institution photograph collection, 1870-1909.

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Smithsonian Institution photograph collection, 1870-1909.

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Photographs, many with multiple views of the same subject, of Indians of Oklahoma and the Great Plains. Many of the photographs were taken by Bureau of American Ethnology or other Smithsonian personnel.

1259 photographs.

Museum of the Great Plains

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SNAC Resource ID: 6911115

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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Native American tribes from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The Bureau's founding director was John Wesley Powell. In 1897, the Bureau's name was changed from Bureau of Ethnology to Bureau of American Ethnology to indicate the primary geographic limit of its focus. In 1965, the BAE merged with the Smithsonian Ins...

Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...