Adrian John Ebell photograph of women and children guarding corn
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2000-15
name: label: Creator
content: Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877
label: Publisher
content: Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux (Eastern)
creator: label: Creator
content: Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Adrian John Ebell (1840-1877) immigrated to the United States from Ceylon as a youth and entered Yale University in 1859. In 1862, he hired University of Chicago student Edwin R. Lawton as his assistant on a trip to photograph Native Americans in Minnesota.  They rented camera equipment from St. Paul photographer and gallery operator Joel E. Whitney, who would later publish many of Ebell's photographs.  On August 17, Ebell and Lawton stayed at Dr. Thomas S. Williamson's mission near the Upper Sioux Agency and fled with the other refugees when news of  the revolt reached the mission the next day.  Ebell created his most widely published photograph of the refugees resting on the prairie during this flight.  After the group stopped in Henderson, Ebell and Lawton continued on to St. Paul, where Ebell gave his exposed glass plates to Whitney for publication and wrote articles about the experience for the St. Paul Daily Press.  Ebell then briefly joined Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley's expedition, photographing the Dakota captives at Camp Release, before returning to his studies at Yale.  In June 1863, his account of the uprising, entitled "The Indian Massacres and War of 1862," was published in Harpers New Monthly Magazine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Stereograph (albumen)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1862
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Ed Italo, 1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2000-15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Stereographs
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Stereographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Stereoview of Dakota women and children with a canopy in corn fields, guarding corn from birds.  The photograph was made by Adrian John Ebell, shortly before the Sioux uprising in Minnesota, 1862.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Ebell photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 90-1.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Minnesota Historical Society also holds Ebell photographs from 1862.