Albertype Company photograph collection relating to Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 25
label: Reproduction Note
content: Modern copy negatives and prints made by Smithsonian Institution, circa 1972.
name: label: Collector
content: Albertype Co.
label: Photographer
content: Fred Harvey (Firm)
label: Photographer
content: Kiser Photo Co. (Portland, Or.)
label: Photographer
content: N.W. Halsey & Co.
label: Photographer
content: Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
label: Photographer
content: Clarke, H. H.
label: Photographer
content: Cornish, Geo. B. (George Bancroft)
label: Photographer
content: Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952
label: Photographer
content: Flood, H. Lee
label: Photographer
content: Hazeltine, H. R.
label: Photographer
content: Martin, W. H. (William H.), 1865-1940
label: Photographer
content: Mathers, C. W.
label: Photographer
content: Matsura, Frank, 1873-1913
label: Photographer
content: Reed, Roland, 1864-1934
label: Photographer
content: Stimson, Joseph Elam, 1870-1952
label: Photographer
content: Watkins, H. H.
label: Collector
content: Witteman, Hermann L., -1952
label: Names
content: Wittemann, A. (Adolph), 1845-1938 (collector and photographer)
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Blackfoot

Flathead

Sioux

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox

Bella Coola (Nuxalk)

Chippewa

Sandia

San Ildefonso

Santa Clara

Santo Domingo (Kewa)

Sarcee

Shoshone

Tesuque
place: label: Place
content: Maine
label: Place
content: Kansas City (Mo.)
label: Place
content: British Columbia
label: Place
content: Virgin Islands
label: Place
content: Vancouver (British Columbia)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Rock paintings
label: Topic
content: Totem poles
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Collector
content: Albertype Co.
culture: label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Coast Salish
label: Culture
content: Colville
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Tli Cho (Dogrib/Thlingchadinne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Catawba Indians
label: Culture
content: Caddo
label: Culture
content: Nuxalk (Bellacoola)
label: Culture
content: Acoma Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Laguna Indians
label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Isleta Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Piipaash (Maricopa)
label: Culture
content: Havasupai (Coconino)
label: Culture
content: Haida
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Ponca
label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Mojave (Mohave)
label: Culture
content: Tewa Pueblos
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Taos Indians
label: Culture
content: Seminole
label: Culture
content: Shawnee
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Sarsi Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Hawaiians
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Albertype Company photograph collection relating to Native Americans
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Albertype Company, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, published viewbooks and postcards for national distribution.  Founded by Adolph and Herman Witteman, the company began publishing souvenier photographic albums as early as 1867. The Wittemans established Witteman Brothers in 1885, and then the Albertype Company in 1890.  From 1890 to 1950, the firm published collotypes made from the photographs of its agents (including Adolph Witteman), other companies, and independent photographers.  The firm was purchased in 1952 by Art Vue Post Card Company.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 318 Negatives (photographic) (circa, nitrate (includes copy negatives))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The Albertype Companyʹs collection of prints and negatives was donated to the Library of Congress in the 1950s. The Library turned the negatives over to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, which in turn divided them among several repositories, including this collection sent to the National Anthropological Archives.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.25
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Preliminary finding aid with folder list available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists of photographs collected by the Albertype Company for their postcards and viewbooks, including portraits, scenery, camps, Native Americans schools, and some paintings and composites for postcard printing. Additional subjects include rock drawings in Maine; a statue in Kansas City, Missouri; Standing Rock Monument in North Dakota; people in Atlin, British Columbia; Carib rock drawings in the Virgin Islands; and totem poles in Vancouver.

Included are works of Charles Milton Bell, E. A. Benson, C. R. Bourne, H. E. Brown, William Bull, H. H. Clarke, George B. Cornish, Frank Bennett Fiske, H. Lee Flood, N. W. Halsey, Fred Harvey, H. R. Hazeltine, Kiser Photograph Company, W. H. Martin, C. W. Mathers, Frank Matsura, W. H. Matthewson, Charles E. Morris, Ernest Moses, J. S. Myers, M. OʹConnor, G. W. Parsons, Roland W. Reed, C. B. Robinson , J. E. Stimson, W. M. Stoltz, and H. H. Watkins. Clarke and Fiske, however, are the only photographers with more than a few images.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society, and Historical Society of Pennsylvania also hold original Albertype Company prints and negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Albertype Company views are also held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 88-37, Photo Lot 92-37, and Photo Lot 92-3.