Humphrey Lloyd Hime Photographs of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition
odd: label: Note on Description
content: Collection and image descriptions provided in this finding aid were compiled using the best available sources of information. Such sources include the creator's annotations or descriptions, collection accession files, primary and secondary source material (i.e. documents, publications, and websites), and subject matter experts. While every effort is made to provide accurate information, it is understood that errors may reveal themselves following review by other subject experts, and new information is welcome.
name: label: Creator
content: Hime, H. L. (Humphrey Lloyd), d. 1903
label: Names
content: Assinniboine & Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition
label: Names
content: Hudson's Bay Company
label: Names
content: Hind, Henry Youle, 1823-1908
label: Names
content: Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 1771-1820
place: label: Place
content: Manitoba
label: Place
content: Saskatchewan
label: Place
content: Red River Settlement
label: Place
content: Fort Garry (Man.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Hime, H. L. (Humphrey Lloyd), d. 1903
culture: label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
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content: Humphrey Lloyd Hime Photographs of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs made by Humphrey Lloyd Hime for the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. Photographs show the Red River and prairie, settlements, farms, churches, watercraft, Cree and Ojibwa communities and individuals, and graves. The collection contains images of human remains.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903) was a photographer and surveyor with the firm "Armstrong, Beere, and Hime, Civil Engineers, Draughtsmen and Photographists" in Toronto, Ontario. In 1958 Hime was hired as the photographer  for Henry Youle Hind's Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition.
label: Historical Note
content: The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 was commissioned by the Canadian Government to establish a reliable trade route between Lake Superior and the Red River. The Hudson's Bay Company's permit to trade exclusively in the Canadian interior was set to expire in 1859. To procure an extension, a thorough investigation of the area to document its topography, vegetation, native life, and settlement potential was required. Under the charge of Professor Henry Youle Hind, a geologist and naturalist at Trinity College in Toronto, the explorers were instructed to obtain comprehensive geographic information that would help to create maps illustrating the natural and cultural features of the land between the Saskatchewan and Assiniboine rivers.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.5 Linear feet
label: Extent
content: 34 Photographic prints (albumen, mounted on paper)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1858
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The NAA has no record of how or when the prints came to the Bureau of American Ethnology. David I. Bushnell published two of Hime's photographs in BAE Bulletin 77 (1922), and indicated that the collection was in the Bureau of American Ethnology at that time.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4285
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Photographs are numbered and arranged in sections accordance with their order in Henry Youle Hind's 1860 folio, Photographs take at Lord Selkirk's Settlement of the Red River of the North. Section titles are also from folio.
processinfo: label: Processing Information note
content: Image descriptions were taken primarily from Hime and Hind's descriptions.

The collection was processed by Jennifer Hawkins, 2010.

Finding aid encoded by Sarah Ganderup, 2014 and Gina Rappaport, 2019.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Bushnell, Jr.,David I.  -- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin. 77, Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi -- . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922.

Greehhill, Ralph. "Early Canadian Photographer, Humphrey Lloyd Hime."  -- Image: The Bulletin of The George Eastman House of Photography -- . 11, no. 3 (1962): 9-11.

Hind, Henry Y.  -- Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North, to illustrate a narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions in Ruperts Land -- . London: J. Hogarth, 1860.

Hind, Henry Y.  -- Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 -- . London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860.

Huyda, Richard. "Exploration Photographer: Humphrey Loyd Hime and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858."  -- MHS Transactions --  3, no. 30 (1974)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Humphrey Lloyd Hime during the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858, depicting Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North. They include images of Cree and Ojibwa people, settlements, dwellings, camps, churches, watercraft, and graves.