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(GARDNER, ALEXANDER; BELL, CHAS; ET ALIA) Suite of 29 cabinet cards published by the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories by alexander gardner (8), c.m. bell (11), w.h. jackson (1), a.z. schindler (4), vannerson and others. Albumen prints, image size 5 1/2x4 inches (13.9x10.1 cm.), mount size 6 1/2x4 1/4 inches (16.5x10.8 cm.), with a caption in the negative; on the original mounts with the "Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist in Charge" imprint on recto. Late 1860s--Early 1870s
Ouray, Ute Chief Thrach-tche or True Eagle, Missouria Grey Eagle, Apache Luig Morague, Pima Chin-chin-wet, Warm Spring John Yellow Flower, Ute Little Raven, Arapaho Es-sen-ce or Little Shell, Chippeway Wa-hu-wa-pa or Ear of Corn, Ogallala Dakota (Squaw of Lone Wolf) Wagasapa or Iron Whip, Ponca Blackfoot and His Squaw, Crow Antonio Jose Atencios, Pueblo (Na-na-an-ye Swaying Aspen, Former Governor) Mohanuzhe, Standing Bent, Omaha Ascencion Rios, Papago Young Black Dog, Osage Woainga or Pipe Stem, Otoe Me-ra-pa-ra-pa or Lance, Mandan Nag-a-rash or British, Ioway Ka-ke-ga-sha, Kaw Scar-faced Charley, Modoc (Chikchikam-lupalkuellatko or Wagon Scar Faced) Black Beaver, Delaware Jose Pocati, Yuma Oligario, Temicula Geo. Harvey or Olhathe, Rogue River To-cha-ka-jo or Druken Terrapin, Creek Thunder Coming Down to the Ground, Pottawattamie Buffalo Goad, Caddo Sleeping Wolf and Squaw, Kiowa Timothy, Nez Perce.
A RARE GROUP OF IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH FERDINAND VAN DER HAYDEN, director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Athough the origins of this agency's Native American photographic project are obscure, this scarce group of cabinet cards appears to have grown out of both Van der Hayden and William Blackmore's abiding interest in building image collections for scholars.
Blackmore, a British financier and philanthropist, developed a unique collection for his museum in Salisbury, England, which included studio photographs and prints for publication. By the early 1870s his collection passed to the Hayden Survey. Through Hayden's influence, it was enlarged to include photographs by his own field photographer, William Henry Jackson, as well as portraits of native subjects gathered from other studios in Washington, D.C. The negatives for many of the photographs from this survey are held at the Smithsonian.
