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This collection of Nez Perce Photographs comprises six lots (197, 198, 199A, 202, 203, and 210) purchased at auction. Swann Galleries, Sale 1513, Thursday, November 19th, 1989.
DESCRIPTION AND ARRANGEMENT
A composite collection made up of six separate auction lots containing
original photographic prints and one glass-plate negative. Folders
1 and 2 include 16 gelatin and silver print cabinet cards, on
C. W. Hanson studio mounts. Each photograph depicts members of
the Nez Perce tribe in various studio settings. Folders 3 and
4 contain 16 gelatin and silver print cabinet cards, on E. G.
Cummings studio mounts. These images, taken in the studio and
outdoors, depict various Nez Perce Indians. An 8x10 glass-plate
negative (folder 5), dated 1903, of Chief Joseph shows him seated
in F. T. Cummings' studio with another man in Western dress. Two
prints made from the negative may be found in folder 6. A bust-length
portrait of Chief Joseph (folder 7) is printed on the verso with
O. S. Goff and D. T. Bismarck. Eight bromide prints (folder 8)
by Dr. Edward H. Latham were taken at Nespelem, WA ca. 1900-1905.
The St. Joseph Mission Nez Perce School is shown in two 7x9 mounted
albumen prints (folder 9).
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C.W. Hanson cabinet cards depicting Nez Perce in studio settings |
| Jane Davis | ||
| Unidentified Nez Perce woman and child | ||
| Matilda Thunder and sister | ||
| Unidentified Nez Perce man in western clothing | ||
| Yum Lumkin | ||
| Nez Perce man (John Moss?) | ||
| Unidentified Nez Perce man | ||
| Nez Perce woman and child (child appears to be hydrocephalic) | ||
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J.A. Hanson – Elite Studio Grangeville and Stuart (Kooksia), Idaho | |
| Family portrait | ||
| Two Indian women and child – 1890 | ||
| Mr. William Parson’s, Kamiah, Idaho | ||
| Josiah Redwolf and Francis Rabain (?) Redwolf | ||
| Henry Enos (Ma sham key low nee) | ||
| Sophia Broncheau and child | ||
| Julia Newton (?) Gould | ||
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E.G. Cummings cabinet cards depicting Nez Perce (identified) | |
| Delia Davis | ||
| Nez Perce family – Nathan White, Sarah White, Charley White and James White | ||
| Wilson Davis | ||
| Peo Peo Talikht (?) | ||
| Benjamin Five Crows and family (Nez Perce) | ||
| Norton Blackeagle | ||
| J.W. Fenderson | ||
| Two men, on left Norton Blackeagle | ||
| Lewis Williams, standing Annie Monteith, Maggie Jackson, sitting | ||
| Three Nez Perce women, left, Rena Slickpoos aunt, middle, Agnes John’s mother. Negative 90-014 | ||
| Martha Reuben and Elias Stevens, Lapwai, Idaho | ||
| Man standing, western dress, address and name on card back | ||
| Young man and woman, name written on back, Mr. W. Light (?) | ||
| Fred Lowery | ||
| Kho sa Lot (?) – various names and relations on back of card | ||
| Mrs. Priscilla Frank | ||
| Dick Paul, baby portrait | ||
| John Hill | ||
| Family portrait, name on back, Jesse Michael LaBrunn (?) | ||
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E.G. Cummings cabinet cards depicting Nez Perce (unidentified) in studio settings | |
| Woman, sitting – two woven bags | ||
| Man and woman, full portrait | ||
| Nez Perce woman | ||
| Woman sitting | ||
| Man seated | ||
| Two Nez Perce men | ||
| Man, full portrait | ||
| Nez Perce man and woman | ||
| Woman and baby | ||
| Man seated | ||
| Young woman | ||
| Two children, one in Indian cradle | ||
| Woman and child | ||
| Portrait of man in uniform | ||
| Man sitting | ||
| Young Nez Perce man | ||
| Indian family | ||
| Two women and a girl | ||
| Two young women | ||
| Three Nez Perce women | ||
| Three women, western dress | ||
| Two women | ||
| Two women | ||
| Man seated, women standing | ||
| Man seated, women standing | ||
| Young woman | ||
| Woman standing | ||
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Glass plate negative of Chief Joseph seated in the photographers studio, 1903. Another man in western dress seated beside him. | |
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Two prints from glass plate negative of Chief Joseph (F.T. Cummins, 1903). Chief Joseph seated in the photographers studio. Another man in western dress seated beside him. |
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Portrait of Chief Joseph, 1877. Photo by O.S. Goff Bismark, D.T. | |
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Dr. Edward H. Latham, photographs taken at Nespelem, Washington (eight bromide prints) | |
| Nez Perce woman on horeseback, ca. 1900. Negative 96-050 | ||
| Professor Edmund S. Meany orating at the unveiling at the monument at Chief Joseph’s grave, June 20, 1905 | ||
| Yellow Bull, wearing Chief Joseph’s headdress (at Chief Joseph’s funeral) | ||
| Peo Peo Tholekt (at Chief Joseph’s funeral) | ||
| Peo Peo Mox Mox (at Chief Joseph’s funeral) | ||
| Professor Edmund S. Meany orating at the unveiling of the monument at Chief Joseph’s grave, June 20, 1905 | ||
| Chief Joseph in war costume at Nespelem Creek, 1903. Negative 90-069. | ||
| Columbia woman on horseback with papoose, ca. 1900 | ||
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Saint Joseph Mission, the famous Nez Perce School (2 mounted prints) | |
| St. Joseph Mission, Nez Perce School. Slickpoo, Idaho before 1900. Negative 90-079. | ||
| St. Joseph Misssion, Nez Perce School. Slickpoo, Idaho before 1900. |