Copies of photographs in the Benjamin Stone collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R4859
label: Reproduction Note
content: Prints made by the Smithsonian Institution, 1969.
name: label: Collector
content: Stone, Benjamin, 1838-1914
label: Names
content: Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
label: Photographer
content: Whitney & Zimmerman
label: Photographer
content: Whitney's Gallery
label: Photographer
content: Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877
label: Photographer
content: Gurnsey, B. H. (Byron H.), 1833-1880
label: Names
content: Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux

Chippewa

Kutenai

Blackfeet
place: label: Place
content: Chicago (Ill.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Stone, Benjamin, 1838-1914
culture: label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Ute
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Sahnish (Arikara)
label: Culture
content: Kootenai (Kutenai)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
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content: Copies of photographs in the Benjamin Stone collection
bioghist: label: Biographical note
content: Sir John Benjamin Stone (1838-1914) was born in Birmingham, England, to a glass-making family, a profession he briefly joined before starting a career in politics.  He was elected representative of the Duddlestone Ward on the Birmingham Town Coucil in 1869, later becoming Mayor Cutton (1886-1891) and Member of Parliament for East Birmingham (1895-1910).  Inspired by a love of antiquities, Stone began to collect and then make photographs during his international travels to East Asia, the West Indies, Africa, and North and South America.  As the first president of the Birmingham Photographic Society, he encouraged the development of the Warwickshire Photographic Survey.  Additionally, he helped found the National Photographic Record Association, and served as President of the organization.  During his time in Parliament, Stone made a photographic survey of the Palace of Westminster and was official photographer for the Coronation of King Geroge V in 1910. His photographs were published in the two-volume Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures (1905).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 170 Items (circa 170 enlarged prints from microfilm)
label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1862-1907
label: Date
content: bulk circa 1862-1871
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Stone's original collection was donated by his Trustees to the Birmingham Reference Library in 1921, which developed microfilm and a card index to the collection. This microfilm was purchased from the Birmingham Public Library in May 1967.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R4859
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Benjamin Stone collection in the Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, England.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Microfilm of the Benjamin Stone collection of photographs relating to Britain and Europe, North America, South America, Africa, India, and Australasia.  Prints made from the microfilm are mostly of portraits of American Indians and some field images relating to delegations, expeditions, dwellings, and the 1862 Sioux uprising in Minnesota.  They include depictions of Arikara, Ojibwa, Miniconjou, Dakota, Pawnee, Winnebago, Iroquois, Ute, Blackfoot, Cree, Crow, Salish, and Kootenai Indians.  There are also images of buildings, boats, railroads, and scenic views from around America, as well as the Smithsonian Castle in 1871 and Chicago after the Great Fire.  Photographers represented include B. H. Gurnsey, Joel Emmons Whitney, and Adrian J. Ebell.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Some photographs have been separated into Photo Lot 24. These photographs are represented by item-level descriptions linked to this record.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)