George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 90-1
name: label: Collector
content: Allen, George V.
label: Names
content: Albuquerque Indian School
label: Photographer
content: Alvord, Kellogg, & Campbell
label: Photographer
content: Bailey & Whitesides
label: Photographer
content: Bailey, Dix, & Mead
label: Publisher
content: Beal's Gallery
label: Photographer
content: Bennett & Brown
label: Photographer
content: Black Hills View Company
label: Photographer
content: Brooks Photo
label: Photographer
content: Brubaker and Whitesides
label: Photographer
content: C. Duhem & Bro.
label: Photographer
content: Calfee & Catlin
label: Names
content: Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
label: Photographer
content: Caswell & Davy
label: Names
content: Chilocco Indian Agricultural School
label: Publisher
content: Continent Stereoscopic Company
label: Photographer
content: Copelin & Son
label: Photographer
content: Cosand & Mosser
label: Photographer
content: Cunningham & Co. (1880-1889)
label: Photographer
content: D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co.
label: Photographer
content: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
label: Photographer
content: Eaton, of Ralston, Oklahoma
label: Publisher
content: Florida Club (Cooperative)
label: Names
content: Geological Survey (U.S.)
label: Photographer
content: Griffith & Griffith
label: Photographer
content: Gurnsey & Illingworth
label: Photographer
content: Hamilton and Hoyt
label: Photographer
content: Hamilton and Kodylek
label: Photographer
content: Hansard & Carden
label: Names
content: Haskell Indian Nations University
label: Photographer
content: Henry L. Shepard & Co.
label: Photographer
content: Ingersoll View Company (St. Paul, Minnesota)
label: Photographer
content: J.J. Reilly & Co.
label: Photographer
content: Judd and McLeish
label: Photographer
content: Keystone View Company
label: Photographer
content: Kilburn Brothers
label: Photographer
content: Lawrence & Houseworth
label: Photographer
content: Leonard & Martin
label: Photographer
content: M.S. Mepham & Bro.
label: Photographer
content: Martin's Gallery
label: Photographer
content: Montgomery Ward
label: Photographer
content: Ramsour & Pennel
label: Photographer
content: Reed & McKenney
label: Photographer
content: Rodocker & Blanchard
label: Photographer
content: Savage & Ottinger
label: Photographer
content: Thomas Houseworth & Co
label: Photographer
content: Underwood & Underwood
label: Publisher
content: Union View Company (Rochester, New York)
label: Names
content: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
label: Photographer
content: Universal Photo Art Co
label: Publisher
content: Webster & Albee (Rochester, N.Y.)
label: Photographer
content: Whitney & Zimmerman
label: Photographer
content: Wittick & Bliss
label: Photographer
content: Wittick & Russell
label: Names
content: Yankton Mission (Yankton Indian Reservation, S.D.)
label: Photographer
content: Young & Chase
label: Names
content: American Horse, 1840-1908
label: Photographer
content: Barker, George, 1844-1894
label: Photographer
content: Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934
label: Photographer
content: Batchelder, B. P. (Benjamin Pierce), 1826-1891
label: Photographer
content: Bates, Edw. (Edward)
label: Photographer
content: Beaman, E. O. (Elias Olcott), 1837-1876
label: Photographer
content: Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
label: Photographer
content: Bell, William, 1830-1910
label: Photographer
content: Benecke, Robert
label: Photographer
content: Bennett, H. H. (Henry Hamilton), 1843-1908
label: Photographer
content: Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903
label: Names
content: Big Bow Chief
label: Photographer
content: Blessing, S. T.
label: Photographer
content: Blosser, J. A.
label: Names
content: Bogy, Lewis V. (Lewis Vital), 1813-1877
label: Photographer
content: Bonine, Elias A., 1843-1916
label: Photographer
content: Brockham, William (of Morris, Minnesota)
label: Photographer
content: Brown, William Henry, 1844-1886
label: Photographer
content: Brubaker, C. B.
label: Photographer
content: Buehman, Henry, 1851-1912
label: Photographer
content: Calfee, H. B. (Henry Bird), 1848-1912
label: Photographer
content: Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
label: Photographer
content: Carter, C. W., 1832-1918
label: Photographer
content: Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison)
label: Photographer
content: Chase, D. B. (Dana B.)
label: Photographer
content: Childs, B. F. (Brainard F.), ca. 1841-1921
label: Photographer
content: Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902
label: Photographer
content: Clark, George A. (George Alfred), 1936-
label: Photographer
content: Climo, John Saunders
label: Photographer
content: Cobb, William Henry, 1859-1909
label: Photographer
content: Conklin, E (Enoch)
label: Photographer
content: Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth, 1834-1878
label: Photographer
content: Croft, Thomas
label: Photographer
content: Cross, W. R. (William R.)
label: Photographer
content: Currier, Frank, fl. 1890-1909
label: Photographer
content: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
label: Photographer
content: Curtis, George E., 1830-1910
label: Names
content: Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
label: Photographer
content: Cushing, W. H., fl. 1870-1889
label: Photographer
content: Davis, S., fl. 1860-1880
label: Photographer
content: Doremus, John P., 1827-1890
label: Photographer
content: Eaton, E. L. (Edric L.), b. ca. 1836
label: Photographer
content: Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877
label: Photographer
content: Eisenmann, Charles, b. 1850
label: Photographer
content: Flanders, Dudley P.
label: Photographer
content: Forsyth, N. A. (Norman A.), 1869-1949
label: Photographer
content: Fouch, John H., 1849-1933
label: Photographer
content: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
label: Photographer
content: Godkin, William R.
label: Photographer
content: Goodell, Abner Cheney, 1831-1914
label: Photographer
content: Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943
label: Photographer
content: Gurnsey, B. H. (Byron H.), 1833-1880
label: Photographer
content: Hamilton, J. H. (James H.)
label: Names
content: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
label: Photographer
content: Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908
label: Photographer
content: Hawkins, B.A.
label: Photographer
content: Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
label: Photographer
content: Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason), 1827-1903
label: Photographer
content: Heister, H. T., (Henry T.), -1895
label: Photographer
content: Heller, Louis Herman, ca. 1839-1929
label: Photographer
content: Heston, Wat
label: Photographer
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
label: Photographer
content: Hook, W. E. (William Edward), 1833-1908
label: Names
content: Hough, Walter, 1859-1935
label: Photographer
content: Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931
label: Photographer
content: Illingworth, W. H. (William H.), 1842-1893
label: Photographer
content: Immke, Henry W.
label: Photographer
content: Ingalls, George W., 1838-1920
label: Names
content: Iron Bull (Crow Indian chief)
label: Photographer
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
label: Photographer
content: Jacoby, W. H. (William H.), 1841-1905
label: Photographer
content: Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), b. 1850
label: Photographer
content: Johnson, W.S.
label: Names
content: Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928
label: Photographer
content: Kirkland, Geo. W. (George W.)
label: Photographer
content: Knight, J. Lee
label: Photographer
content: Landon, S. C. (Seth C.), b. 1825
label: Photographer
content: Line, A. A.
label: Photographer
content: Little, H.N.
label: Photographer
content: Marshall, William I. (William Isaac), 1840-1906
label: Photographer
content: Martin, Alex (Alexander), 1841-1929
label: Names
content: Mató-Tópe, Mandan chief, d. 1837
label: Photographer
content: Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)
label: Photographer
content: Maynard, Hannah, 1834-1918
label: Photographer
content: Maynard, Richard, 1832-1907
label: Photographer
content: McIntyre, A. C. (Alexander Carson)
label: Photographer
content: Meddaugh, J. E.
label: Photographer
content: Mellen, Geo. E. (George Egbert), b. 1854
label: Photographer
content: Mepham, Michael S.
label: Photographer
content: Mitchell, Daniel S.
label: Names
content: Mix, Charles E.
label: Names
content: Monroe, Mark, 1930-
label: Names
content: Moran, John, 1831-1903
label: Photographer
content: Morrow, Stanley J.
label: Photographer
content: Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
label: Photographer
content: Newcomb, C. H.
label: Photographer
content: Nims, F.A.
label: Photographer
content: O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882
label: Names
content: Ouray
label: Photographer
content: Palmer, A. A.
label: Photographer
content: Parker, Joseph C.
label: Photographer
content: Pierron, Geo. (George), b. 1816
label: Photographer
content: Pollock, Charles, 1832-1910
label: Photographer
content: Powers, F. F.
label: Photographer
content: Raitt, T.G.
label: Photographer
content: Randall, A. Frank
label: Photographer
content: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
label: Names
content: Red Cloud, 1822-1909
label: Names
content: Red Dog, Oglala chief
label: Names
content: Red Shirt, 1845?-1925
label: Names
content: Reilly, John James, 1838-1894
label: Names
content: Reynolds, Joseph Jones, 1822-1899
label: Photographer
content: Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)
label: Photographer
content: Rodocker, David (1840-1919)
label: Photographer
content: Rothrock, George H.
label: Photographer
content: Rudy, W. Ira
label: Photographer
content: Russell, Andrew J.
label: Photographer
content: Rutter, Thomas H., 1837-1925
label: Photographer
content: Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909
label: Photographer
content: Seaver, C. (Charles)
label: Photographer
content: Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James)
label: Photographer
content: Shipler, James William, 1849-1937
label: Names
content: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
label: Publisher
content: Smith, O. C.
label: Photographer
content: Soule, John P.
label: Names
content: Spotted Tail, 1823-1881
label: Names
content: Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
label: Photographer
content: Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917
label: Photographer
content: Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912
label: Photographer
content: Thorne, G.W.
label: Photographer
content: Thurlow, J., 1831-1878
label: Photographer
content: Towne, Bertram C.
label: Photographer
content: Trager, George E.
label: Names
content: Two Guns White Calf, 1872-1934 (Piegan)
label: Photographer
content: Upton, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
label: Photographer
content: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
label: Photographer
content: Weitfle, Charles, 1836-1921
label: Photographer
content: Wendt, Julius M.
label: Photographer
content: Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
label: Photographer
content: Williscraft, W.H.
label: Photographer
content: Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903
label: Photographer
content: Woodburn, J. R.
label: Photographer
content: Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Navaho

Tipai-Ipai

Shoshone

Mi'kmaq

Sauk & Fox

Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)

Assiniboin

Sioux

Kansa (Kaw)

Pueblo

Pima (Akimel O'odham)

Santo Domingo (Kewa)

Chippewa

Papago (Tohono O'odham)

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox

Blackfeet

San Felipe

Tesuque

Flathead
place: label: Place
content: Custer Battlefield (Montana)
topic: label: Topic
content: Camps
label: Topic
content: Child care
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Totem poles
label: Topic
content: Cookery
label: Topic
content: Wild west shows
label: Topic
content: Fishing
label: Topic
content: Hunting
label: Topic
content: Transportation
label: Topic
content: Dwellings
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Funeral rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Collector
content: Allen, George V.
culture: label: Culture
content: Puyallup
label: Culture
content: Kumeyaay (Diegueño)
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Tohono O'odham (Papago)
label: Culture
content: Kalispel (Pend d'Oreilles)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
label: Culture
content: Taos Indians
label: Culture
content: Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
label: Culture
content: Kickapoo
label: Culture
content: Laguna Indians
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Havasupai (Coconino)
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Isleta Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Mojave (Mohave)
label: Culture
content: Mewuk (Miwok)
label: Culture
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Akimel O'odham (Pima)
label: Culture
content: Piipaash (Maricopa)
label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Modoc
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
label: Culture
content: Washo Indians
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Tonkawa
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Yavapai
label: Culture
content: Ute
label: Culture
content: Sauk
label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Bannock
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Cochiti Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Choctaw
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Numakiki (Mandan)
label: Culture
content: Sahnish (Arikara)
label: Culture
content: Tlingit
label: Culture
content: Haida
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Acoma Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Quapaw Indians
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Kaw (Kansa)
label: Culture
content: Umatilla
label: Culture
content: Shawnee
label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Pomo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Seminole
label: Culture
content: Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
label: Culture
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Culture
content: Potawatomi
setName: label: See more items in
content: George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 67 Lantern slides
label: Extent
content: 26 Negatives (photographic) (glass)
label: Extent
content: 10 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate)
label: Extent
content: 6 Autochromes (photographs)
label: Extent
content: 50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)
label: Extent
content: 1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))
label: Extent
content: 239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))
label: Extent
content: 96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860-1935
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased from George V. Allen, 1989.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.90-1
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Autochromes (photographs)
label: Type
content: Stereographs
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Postcards
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates for many photographs are available online.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory and index of photographers available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School.

Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys.

Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.