Copy photograph of Memorial to First Americans groundbreaking
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R82-55
name: label: Names
content: Medicine Crow Chief
label: Names
content: Plenty Coups, 1848-1932
label: Names
content: Red Cloud, Jack
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content: Two Moon, 1847-1917
label: Names
content: Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928
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content: White Man Runs Him, approximately 1855-1925
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content: Wooden Leg, 1858-1940
place: label: Place
content: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: In 1913, department store owner Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928) sponsored a project that brought American Indians to New York for the groundbreaking of a proposed National Memorial to the First Americans on Staten Island; however, the monument was never built. Wanamaker also sponsored three photographic expeditions between 1908 and 1913, intending to document the "vanishing race" of American Indians.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Copy negative
label: Extent
content: 1 Copy print
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Copy negative donated by John M. Carroll, 1982.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R82-55
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Copy negatives
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content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photograph made from a framed print depicting American Indians at groundbreaking ceremonies for Rodman Wanamaker's proposed National Memorial to the First Americans on Staten Island, on February 22, 1913. Included in the image are Cheyenne chief Wooden Leg, Cheyenne chief Two Moons, Rodman Wanamaker, Crow chief Plenty Coups, Crow chief Medicine Crow, Crow Indian White Man Runs Him, and Oglala Sioux chief Jack Red Cloud. The original photograph may have been made by the Bain News Service.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs collected by Wanamaker can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 64.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of this event can be found in the Library of Congress in the George Grantham Bain Collection.