Photographs of drawings by Robert Ormsby Sweeny, made in Minnesota ca. 1852- ca. 1898
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4520
label: Local Note
content: See full list of captions with prints.
label: Local Note
content: Filed: Dakota original prints. Mounted in album.
name: label: Creator
content: Sweeny, Robert Ormsby, 1831-1902
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Sweeny, Robert Ormsby, 1831-1902
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Ormsby Sweeny, druggist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1831; died in Duluth, September 6, 1902. He settled in St Paul in 1852; designed the great seal of the state of Minnesota in 1858; was the first fish commissioner of this state; later removed to Duluth, where for a time he was in charge of the U. S. fish hatchery. This information is from Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap, "Minnesota Biographies, 1655-1912," Minnesota Hist. Soc. Collns., Volume XIV, St Paul, 1912, page 761. They give their source as follows: 68. History of Ramsey County and City of St Paul, 650 pages, 1881. 94. Pen Pictures of St Paul, and Biographical Sketches, by T. M. Newson, 746 pages, 1886. 237. Minnesota Historical Society Scrap-Books, 68 volumes, 1861-1912, volume 19.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4520
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints