Joel Emmons Whitney portrait of Little Crow
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2000-25
name: label: Creator
content: Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
label: Names
content: Whitney & Zimmerman
label: Names
content: Little Crow, d. 1863
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Mdewakantonwan Dakota (Mdewakanton Sioux)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Little Crow (circa 1810-1863), also known as Taoyatiduta, was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief known for his participation in the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851 and his leadership during the Sioux uprising in 1862. After a loss at the Battle of Wood Lake in September 1862, Little Crow fled to Canada but soon returned to Minnesota. He was killed on July 3, 1863, by Nathan Lamson.

Joel Emmons Whitney (1822-1886) moved in 1850 to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he would remain for most of his professional photography career.  Almost immediately, he began to photograph under the name Whitney's Gallery (1851-1871).  In early 1851 he partnered with George C. Nichols to open the daguerreotype gallery Whitney & Nichols and Whitney opened an independent studio later that year.  Under the tutelage of Alexander Hesler, he continued making daguerreotypes, which he marketed as "Pocket Editions of Nature" and exhibited at fairs in New York and Minnesota.  Whitney partnered with William S. Combs (1867-1869) and then purchased Martin's Art Gallery from James Edgar Martin.  In 1870, he employed and then partnered with Charles A. Zimmerman, to whom he sold his business in 1871.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Albumen print (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1862
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Joe Soebbing, 2000.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2000-25
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Carte-de-visite portrait of Little Crow, a chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe and leader of the Sioux Uprising in 1862.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Joel Emmons Whitney and Whitney & Zimmerman photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 140, Photo Lot 80-18, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 99-4, Photo Lot 4605, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional images of Little Crow held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4659, Photo Lot 4286, and the BAE historical negatives.