John Rutter Brooke photograph collection from Camp Supply and Pine Ridge Reservation
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4599, NAA MS 4598, USNM ACC 63760
name: label: Collector
content: Brooke, John Rutter, 1838-1926
label: Names
content: Northwestern Photographic Company
label: Names
content: Trager and Kuhn
label: Photographer
content: Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908
label: Photographer
content: Trager, George E.
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
label: Place
content: Fort Supply (Okla.)
label: Place
content: Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Camps
label: Topic
content: Cooking
label: Topic
content: Tipis
creator: label: Collector
content: Brooke, John Rutter, 1838-1926
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: John Rutter Brooke (1838-1926) graduated from Ursinus College shortly before enlisting in the 4th Pennsylvania Infantry division in April 1861.  At the age of twenty-three, Brooke was granted the rank of colonel and served as the commanding officer for the 53rd Pennsylvania volunteer regiment.  He led the 53rd at Antietam and a brigade of the Union Army's 1st Division during the Gettysburg campaign, leading to his appointment as Brigadier General in 1864.  During peacetime, Brooke participated in the removal of Native American tribes to reservations.  He commanded troops at Camp Supply in 1873, the U.S. 7th Cavalry during the attack at Wounded Knee, the Department of the Platte when the Ghost Dance War began in 1890 and the 1st Corps during the Spanish-American War.  In 1897, he was promoted to major general and served as military governor of Puerto Rico and Cuba in the last years of the 19th century. Brooke returned to the United States as commanding officer of the Department of the East, eventually retiring to Philadelphia in 1902.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1867-1891
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Major General John R. Brooke to the US National Museum in 1919 along with additional photographs, books, and some artifacts (accession 63760). These photographs were originally held in the museum's Division of Military History, and were transferred to the National Anthropological Archives October 28, 1960.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4599
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs mostly made by William S. Soule and George E. Trager, and probably acquired by John Rutter Brooke while stationed with the US Army at Camp Supply (circa 1873) and the Department of the Platte (1888-1895).  Photographs by William S. Soule document life at Camp Supply, depicting Arapaho people (including Chief Powder Face), tipis and encampments, drying bison meat, and one image of Cheyenne captives, identified as Dull Knife, Curly Hair, and Big Head.  Photographs by George E. Trager (through his studios Trager and Kuhn and the Northwestern Photographic Company) depict Red Cloud, Pine Ridge Agency, Rosebud Agency, and a Grand Council between Plains chiefs at Pine Ridge.  The collection also includes three images relating to a Ute Bear Dance at Uintah Agency.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs previously filed in MS 4598 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 4599. These photographs were also collected by John Rutter Brooke and donated in accession 063760 and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Soule photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 3912, MS 4791, MS 2531, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 97-6, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: John R. Brooke also donated a large copper nugget, a bolo and sheath, and a dagger, which are held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accession 063760.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania holds John Rutter Brooke papers.