Arthur Earl Patton photograph album relating to the Flathead Indian Reservation and surrounding areas
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-25, USNM ACC 387053
name: label: Collector
content: Patton, Arthur Earl
label: Photographer
content: C. C. Slack & Co.
label: Photographer
content: Thiri's Aerial View Service
label: Photographer
content: Bigelow, Lou Goodale
label: Names
content: Morris, Charles E. (photographer)
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Flathead
place: label: Place
content: Mandan (N.D.)
label: Place
content: Montana
label: Place
content: Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)
creator: label: Collector
content: Patton, Arthur Earl
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Arthur Earl Patton lived on the southern edge of the Flathead Indian Reservation near Arlee, Montana. He moved there about 1911 and stayed five years, obtaining 160 acres of land in accordance with the Homestead Act of 1862.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Postcards (color halftone, halftone, and collotype)
label: Extent
content: 71 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (prints, mostly on postcard paper))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1910-1912
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Ralph K. Patton, Arthur Earl Patton's son, with Flathead artifacts to the National Museum of Natural History in 1990 (accession 387053). Photograph album transferred to the National Anthropological Archives in 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-25
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made and collected by Arthur Earl Patton documenting life on and near the Flathead Indian Reservation.  They include images of Salish people, cowboys, storefronts and buildings, carriages and wagons, automobiles, railroads, a river boat, and scenic views.  Locations include Ravalli, Polson, and St. Ignatius in Montana, as well as Mandan, North Dakota.  The collection includes some postcards by Thiri's Aerial View Service (T.A.V.S.), L. G. Bigelow, C.C. Slack & Co., and Charles E. Morris Co.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Flathead artifacts, including a buckskin shirt, buckskin gauntlets, a beaded leather belt, and a buckskin money belt, which were donated with the album can be found in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 387053.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Charles E. Morris photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 25 and Photo Lot 59.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: An additional Thiri's Aerial view Service photograph held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.