"View of the Badlands, Little Missouri River, [Dakota Terr.]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56737
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Artist
content: Poland, John Scraggs, Lt Col
place: label: Place
content: Dakota Territory -- Little Missouri River
creator: label: Artist
content: Poland, John Scraggs, Lt Col
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Poland, John Scraggs, Lt Col
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Series of drawings, negative Numbers 56734-741, all appear to be scenes in the area around Fort Abraham Lincoln, which is about five miles from the present site of Bismark, North Dakota, on the west bank of the Missouri River. It was first built in 1872 to protect construction crews of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1891 it was abandoned. Information from F. P. Prucha, Guide to the Military Posts of the United States, Milwaukee, 1964, page 55.

Artist: [Lt Col John Scraggs Poland, U. S. A.]
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Aug 14 1879
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "No. 2, View of the Badlands Little Missouri River taken Aug. 14 (Thursday) 1879" written in ink below watercolor by John S. Poland; cf. Poland's handwriting on negative Number 56738. Signed with artist's monogram. "From the divide east of the Little Missouri River" pencilled below watercolor by John S. Poland.