William S. Soule photographs of Native Americans and camps in Kansas and Oklahoma
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 3912
name: label: Photographer
content: Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Plains Apache
place: label: Place
content: Kansas
label: Place
content: Oklahoma
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
label: Topic
content: Camps
creator: label: Photographer
content: Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908
culture: label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Culture
content: Caddo
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Plains Apache (Naisha/Kiowa Apache)
label: Culture
content: Wichita
label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: William S. Soule photographs of Native Americans and camps in Kansas and Oklahoma
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: William Stinson Soule (1836-1908) was the photographer at Fort Sill (now in Oklahoma) from its founding in 1869 to the end of the Indian campaigns in 1874-1875. Soule moved from New England circa 1868, first working as a photographer at Fort Dodge, Kansas, then at Camp Supply with General Philip Sheridan's campaigning troops. As the photographer for the United States Army at Fort Sill, he photographed the construction of the fort as well as many of the people and events associated with the Indian Wars. Soule left Fort Sill in 1875 to return to Boston where he joined his brother's Soule Photograph Co. and then operated the Soule Art Company until his death.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Album (albumen)
label: Extent
content: 92 Prints (Album, silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 30 Prints (albumen (mostly cabinet cards))
label: Extent
content: 42 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1867-1874
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Album of silver gelatin prints, originally MS 3912-A, was obtained in February 1937 from Henry G. Peabody, a Pasadena, CA, publisher of educational slides and films. In a letter dated March of that year, Peabody states that he became acquainted with W. S. Soule in 1886, when Soule was senior partner in the Soule Photographic Co. in Boston.
label: Custodial History note
content: Album of albumen prints as well as some of the unmounted prints and cabinet cards, originally MS 3912-b, was donated by Lucia A. Soule, William S. Soule's daughter, in May 1955.
label: Custodial History note
content: Eighteen cabinet cards, originally MS 3912-c, may have been collected in the Bureau of American Ethnology over many years and from various sources. One copy of the portrait of Big Bow is marked for the printer in James Mooney's handwriting, and was used in the BAE's 17th Annual Report.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.3912
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albums
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates are available online. Copy negatives are on file for all the subjects in this album, although not necessarily copied from these particular prints.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Digital surrogate of inventory and letters from Henry G. Peabody available online.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs by William S. Soule of Native Americans and camps in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kansas and Camp Supply and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Tribes represented include Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Wichita.

One albumen print mounted on a card with C. W. Carter's photographer imprint, though the photograph was made by Soule. One album includes silver gelatin prints made from original Soule negatives by Henry G. Peabody.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Soule photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4599, MS 4791, MS 2531, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 97-6, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Henry G. Peabody and Lucia Soule relating to this collection held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Bureau of American Ethnology general correspondence.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Huntington Library Photo Archives holds the Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Lucia A. Soule also donated a Lincoln peace medal, which was transferred to the US National Museum, Department of History, in Accession 205943.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)