Allen Richards photograph collection relating to Mexican Kickapoo and Choctaw people
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-40, NAA Photo Lot 80-34
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints made by Allen Richards and University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures.
name: label: Creator
content: Richards, Allen (collector and photographer)
label: Photographer
content: Ludlow, Edwin
label: Names
content: Wright, Allen, active 1873-1880
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Mexican Kickapoo
place: label: Place
content: Coahuila (Mexico : State)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Richards, Allen (collector and photographer)
culture: label: Culture
content: Kickapoo
label: Culture
content: Choctaw
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Allen Richards is a descendant of the Reverend Allen Wright, Choctaw chief from 1866 to 1870. His uncle, Edwin Ludlow, was General Manager of the Mexican Coal and Coke Company in Las Esperanzas, Coahuila (1898-1911).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Copy prints
label: Extent
content: 1 Albumen print (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860-1870, 1900, 1936
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Allen Richards in 1980 and 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-40
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs of Allen Wright published in Francis Paul Prucha, "The Board of Indian Commissioners and the Delegates of the Five Tribes," Chronicles of Oklahoma 56, no. 1 (1978); and John Bartlett Meserve, "Chief Allen Wright," Chronicles of Oklahoma 19, no. 4 (1941).
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals for many of the photographs are in the Institute of Texan Cultures.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by Allen Richrads, which include portraits of Reverend Allen Wright, his wife Harriet Mitchell Wright, and the 1866 Choctaw delegation to Washington; photographs made in 1898-1911 by Richards' uncle, Edwin Ludlow, that mostly depict Mexican Kickapoos in the state of Coahuila in Mexico; and photographs made by Richards of Kickapoos in Nacimiento, Coahuila, in 1936.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photo Lot 80-34 has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 91-40. These photographs were also made by Allen Richards and Edwin Ludlow, were donated by Allen Richards and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Vocabularies and manuscripts relating to the life and work of Allen Wright can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 580 and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.