Trustrim Connell collection of Native American portraits, camps, and agencies, ca. 1865-ca. 1895.

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Trustrim Connell collection of Native American portraits, camps, and agencies, ca. 1865-ca. 1895.

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Principally formal, posed portraits of Native Americans on reservations in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) near the Darlington Agency, Fort Reno, and Fort Sill, including Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita Indians; a few of Iowa, Pawnee, Sauk, and Sioux Indians. Most sitters are identified by name and tribe. Some photographs of those tribes' encampments, including scenes that show tipis, wagons, and horses. A few photographs from the Phoenix, Ariz. vicinity, including Papago Indians. Includes some portraits of agency staff, including the Connell family, and some general scenes of agency buildings, including dwellings of officers' families, commissaries, trading posts, and mission and boarding schools. Most photographed by William S. Soule and Cosand & Mosser. A few other photographers represented.

ca. 170 photographic prints.

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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...

Connell family

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Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art

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Connell, Trustrim.

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Born of Mark, Jr. and Clothilda Connell in Pennsylvania, 12 May 1884. Attended Millersville State College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the 138th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I on graduation and served throughout the duration of the Civil War. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1865. Married Annie Maffet of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in 1867. They had a daughter, Caroline. Shortly after his marriage, Connell enlisted to serve in the Indian Wars and moved westward. The gover...