Richard H. and Nana Pratt photographs
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81I
label: Reproduction Note
content: Contact prints made by Smithsonian Institution from original negatives, 1966.
name: label: Photographer
content: Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924
label: Photographer
content: Pratt, Nana
topic: label: Topic
content: Totem poles
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Dwellings
creator: label: Photographer
content: Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924) was a United States Army officer and organizer of the Indian Division of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. Pratt's theories about education of American Indians and their assimilation into American society led to the founding of the Carlisle School in 1879, where he served as superintendent until 1904.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Contact prints
label: Extent
content: 30 Negatives (nitrate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1896
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Richard Pratt's granddaughter, Mrs. S. Clark Seelye, in 1966.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81I
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Contact prints
label: Type
content: Negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs probably made by Richard Henry Pratt and his daughter Nana Pratt on a trip around the United States, circa 1896. They include images of Southwest and Northwest Coast Native peoples, waterways, dwellings and pueblos, a church, a totem pole, and a town in the Northwest.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Richard Pratt donated drawings by the Kiowa artist Wohaw to the Smithsonian Institution. The drawings are now held in National Anthropological Archives MS 30740, MS 30747, and MS 30750, and in the Graphic Arts collection of the National Museum of American History.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds photographs of Richard Pratt (BAE historical negatives) and correspondence from Pratt (MS 4558, Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs relating to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 73-8 and Photo Lot 81-12.