Native American portrait photographs, 1907.

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Native American portrait photographs, 1907.

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Platinum prints made by the Bureau of American Ethnology of Native Americans in 1907. The images are studio portraits, mostly men but including some boys, from plains and woodland tribes, many in regalia. The majority of the images were made by De Lancey W. Gill. Charles Milton Bell alos made some of the images.

100 photographs (1 archives box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924087

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940

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Illustrator, artist, and photographer, of Washington, D.C. During his long career with the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, De Lancey Gill was responsible for taking thousands of remarkable portrait photographs of Native American tribal leaders on their visits to the capital. His work as an artist included drawings of Washington, D.C., scenes in the 1880s that captured a cityscape of dilapidated frame dwellings soon to disappear in a period of rapi...

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...

Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893.

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