Marjorie Meriweather Post photograph collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 75-46
name: label: Creator
content: Post, Marjorie Merriweather
label: Names
content: Lehman & Duval Lithrs.
label: Names
content: United States. Army. Signal Corps
label: Names
content: Angeline, d.1896 (Suquamish Indian)
label: Names
content: Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
label: Names
content: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
label: Names
content: Geronimo, 1829-1909
label: Names
content: King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862
label: Names
content: Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux

Chippewa
place: label: Place
content: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Post, Marjorie Merriweather
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Duwamish (Dwamish)
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
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content: Marjorie Meriweather Post photograph collection
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Marjorie Meriweather Post (1887-1973) was a Washington, D.C., businesswoman, philanthropist, and collector of decorative art objects.  Her father Charles W. Post was the owner of Postup Cereal Company, later General Foods Corporation.  In 1973, Marjorie Post's philanthropy earned her the first ever James Smithson Society Medal, the Smithsonian Institution's highest benefactor award.  After her death, Post willed her Hillwood estate to the Smithsonian along with her American Native American collection at Camp Topridge.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Lithographs
label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard
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content: 1 Engraving
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (mounted in frame)
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content: 1 newspaper clipping in frame made from squirrel
label: Extent
content: 9 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Items given as part of Post bequest to United States National Museum, and transferred to National Anthropological Archives, 1975.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.75-46
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lithographs
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Engravings
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Lithographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Engravings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by Marjorie Meriweather Post relating to NAtive Americans.  They include images of Post's home at Camp Topridge, Geronimo, Buffalo Bill Cody, Native chiefs and US officials at Pine Ridge in 1891, and Princess Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle.  Additionally, there are lithographs of Caa-tou-see and Shin-Ga-Ba-Wossinis, and a B. Picart engraving of Native Americans circling a burial mound and a newspaper clipping ("Out of Human Skin") in a frame made from a squirrel pelt.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Marjorie Merriweather Post papers (MS 7278).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the records of Post's Hillwood Estate, 1960-1976 (SIA RS00740).