Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collection relating to Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 85
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
label: Photographer
content: Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
label: Photographer
content: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
label: Photographer
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
label: Photographer
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
label: Names
content: Middlebrook, J. E.
label: Photographer
content: Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
label: Photographer
content: Westmann, Orloff R.
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zulu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America
label: Culture
content: Indians of Mexico
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2,600 Prints (circa, silver gelatin and platinum)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1870s-1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.85
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Box list is available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The bulk of the collection consists of photographs made from glass negatives collected and produced by the Bureau of American Ethnology. These photographs include portraits and field photographs by photographers and anthropologists, most associated with the BAE, including Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, John K. Hillers, DeLancey Gill, C. M. Bell, Antonio Zeno Shindler Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. The collection also includes photographs donated to the United States National Museum and transferred to the Department of Anthropology which depict Zulus and people from Chiapas, Mexico. Some of the prints in this collection may have been made for an Indian Photographic Exhibit lent by the BAE to the Public Library Commission of Indiana.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Original negatives for the bulk of the photographs in this collection can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Original prints for photographs of Zulu and people in Chiapas are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97 and Photo Lot 24.