Copies of Christian Barthelmess photographs of American Indians and United States Army
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R87-1
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy negatives made by Smithsonian Institution, 1989.
name: label: Creator
content: Barthelmess, Christian
label: Names
content: United States. Army. Indian Scouts
label: Photographer
content: Carpenter, W. J.
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Navaho
place: label: Place
content: Germany
label: Place
content: Colorado
label: Place
content: Fort Lewis (Colo.)
label: Place
content: Fort Bayard (N.M.)
label: Place
content: Lame Deer (Mont.)
label: Place
content: Fort Keogh (Mont.)
label: Place
content: Santa Fe (N.M.)
label: Place
content: Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Soldiers -- United States
label: Topic
content: Weaving
creator: label: Creator
content: Barthelmess, Christian
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Germans
label: Culture
content: Ute
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Christian Barthelmess (1854-1906) was born in Bavaria and immigrated to the United States in the early 1870s. Enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1876, he directed military bands and was an official army photographer. Barthelmess retired from the Army in 1903, but remained post photographer for Fort Keogh until his death in 1906.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 119 Copy negatives
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1876-1898, 1903-1906
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Martha Foreman Leonard, the granddaughter of O. S. Gordon, lent the album of original photographs for copying in 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R87-1
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Studio portraits
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Maurice Frink with Casey E. Barthelmess, Photographer on an Army Mule, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Studio portraits
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals now in the Thompson Memorial Library at Ohio State University.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs from an album compiled by Christian Barthelmess for a fellow soldier, O.S. Gordon.  The bulk of the images relate to American Indians and the United States army and include studio portraits; images of dwellings and camps; cowboys; Zuni and Navajo performing daily activities; Cheyenne and Zuni dances; a Cheyenne travois; fishing and hunting parties; and American Indian scouts for the army.  There are also scenic views of Colorado, Zuni Pueblo, Santa Fe, Custer (Little Bighorn) Battlefield, Camp Proctor, and Forts Merritt and Keogh.  The collection also includes some images from Germany, including images of a German singing club and the Bavarian town of Klingenberg on the Main.  One photograph was made by W. J. Carpenter, a Colorado photographer.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Barthelmess can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4423, Photo Lot 24, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University hold photographs by Barthelmess.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Montana Historical Society Archives holds the Barthelmess Family Papers, 1926-1971, including a series relating to Christian Barthelmess.