Bertha Crum Sparks photographs of Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud) community in Valentine, Nebraska
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4818
name: label: Creator
content: Sparks, Bertha Crum
label: Photographer
content: Sparks, Helen
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Valentine (Neb.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 1968 by Helen Sparks, daughter of Bertha Crum Sparks.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sparks, Bertha Crum
culture: label: Culture
content: Sicangu Lakota [Rosebud Sioux]
label: Culture
content: Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Bertha Crum (Mrs. Levi C.) Sparks lived in Valentine, Nebraska and took many photographs of visiting Sicangu Lakota people from the nearby Rosebud reservation. Some photographs were made in the Sparks' back yard.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 9 Prints (cyanotype)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1903-1930s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4818
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Cyanotypes
label: Type
content: Photographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The photographs were initially filed by tribe in Photo Lot 24. In 2010 the photos were removed from Photo Lot 24 and restored as a distinct collection.

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altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Cyanotypes
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs primarily of Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud) individuals and groups at dances and other events in Valentine, Nebraska. One event is possibly related to a presidential campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt, or a Fourth of July celebration. Also included are two photographs of a sod church in Kennedy, Nebraska. Most of the photographs were made by Bertha Crum Sparks but Helen Sparks, daughter of Bertha Sparks, may have made several.