Oglala Dakota man, Red Cloud and Col. Charles P. Jordan
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.3243 B 2
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Nephew, John
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Nephew, John
culture: label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
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content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Nephew, John
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Col. Charles Jordan was chief clerk at the Red Cloud Agency in the late 70's; he was later a trader on the Rosebud Reservation; and he married a niece of Red Cloud. -- Information from letter of Elmo Scott Watson, February 23, 1943.

Photographer: John Nephew, 493 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: May 1889
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: February 23, 1943. Dear Miss Tucker: Possibly you will recall my visit to your office about three years ago and subsequent correspondence in regard to the identity of the white man who appears in the photograph with Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Sioux (No. 3243 b). At that time I told you I felt reasonably certain that this man was Col. Charles Jordan, chief clerk at the Rosebud agency in the late 70s, later a trader on the Rosebud reservation, who married a niece of Red Cloud. Recently I have come across evidence which identifies him conclusively. In a collection of old-time photographs lent me by the widow of Gen. George H. Harries, a member of the Sioux Commission of 1891, was one of which the enclosed print is a copy. It was taken by a photographer named Nephew, 493 Pennsylvania avenue, and on the bottom of the picture, in General Harries' handwriting, is the notation that this is a picture of Red Cloud and C. P. Jordan and that it was taken in May, 1889. A comparison of this print with your No. 3243-b will show that the similarity in pose, costume, etc. definitely establishes the identity of Colonel Jordan in your picture and indicates that both were taken at approximately the same time -- May, 1889. Possibly this isn't tremendously important but I thought you might be interested in knowing that Red Cloud's companion in that picture is C. P. Jordan and not General Custer, as you told me some one had suggested it might be. Sincerely, Elmo Scott Watson.