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Indians of North America -- Photographs The Curtis Collection 
 The premier photographer of Native Americans traveled during the years of 1890 to 1930, photographing all of the major tribes west of the Mississippi River. This commercial site provides his biography, a comprehensive portfolio of his photographs, and his notes of the tribes he visited, taken from his The North American Indian, a 20-volume work covering the language, religion, clothing, and way of life of each tribe. His photogravure printing process is also explained. http://www.curtis-collection.com/ Topics: Native Americans, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated May 11, 2007 Digital Richard Throssel Papers
A collection of 16 photographs of the Crow (Apsaroke) Indian nation, taken by Richard Throssel from 1905-1910. Also features Throssel's manuscript "Naming Indian Children." From the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. http://ahc.uwyo.edu/onlinecollections/digital/throssel/default.htm Topics: Native Americans, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Aug 4, 2004 Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
A complete collection of images contained in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian , "one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced." It contains 2226 illustrations. Search by keyword or browse by subject, Native American tribe or geographic location, or volume. There is an essay that attempts to place Edward S. Curtis in Context . Another from the Library of Congress' American Memory Project. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html Topics: Native Americans, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Feb 20, 2003 Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
This site is a photographic exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. His thirty-year "North American Indian Project represented an attempt to capture images of American Indians as they lived before contact with Anglo cultures" and covered almost one hundred Indian tribes in the western third of the United States and Alaska. Lists of places and Native American groups visited are provided. A timeline and suggested readings are also included. http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/ Topics: Native Americans, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Images of Native Americans
A collection "of visual materials relating to Native Americans," including photographs and illustrations from pamphlets, journals, pulp magazines, newspapers, and ephemera. Topics include color plate illustrations, European interpretations, popular culture, and early ethnography. Images browsable by name, date, and topic. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/ Topics: Native Americans, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Mar 3, 2004 Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains: Online Image Database
An image documenting the people, places, industry, and events of the northern Rockies region from the late 1860s through 1960. Images feature title and description, date, location, artist/photographer, and format, which may be a photograph, stereograph, painting, drawing, serigraph, or document. From the Montana State University Libraries. http://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/ Topics: Native Americans, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 28, 2008 North American Indians: Stereographs From the Keystone-Mast Collection
A collection of over 20 stereographic photographs of North American Indians. Browsable by topic (people, ceremony, dwelling, lifestyle). Includes introduction. From the Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/indian/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jun 10, 2006 The People: A History of Native Nevadans Through Photography
Over fifty historic images of the Native American population of Nevada. Also includes "a map of Native American Nevada; an index of the photographs shown; an explanation of the different photographic processes used; and a page of links to other Native Nevadan WWW sites." From the State of Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs, Division of Museums and History. http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/museums/reno/expeople/people.htm Topics: Native Americans, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place Last updated Dec 7, 2002 Stereotyping Native America
This exhibit of photographs features "turn of the 20th century stereographs of Native Americans" and related depictions to "showcase how, around the turn of the 20th century, photographic convention dictated Native Americans be portrayed according to mainstream American typologies." Includes an introductory essay and annotated images. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/stereotyping/default.lasso Topics: Native Americans, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 22, 2006 |
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