Ellery Vladimir Wilcox photographs of Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 83-44, NAA ACC 84-17
name: label: Creator
content: Wilcox, Ellery Vladimir
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
topic: label: Topic
content: Sepulchral monuments
creator: label: Creator
content: Wilcox, Ellery Vladimir
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Yanktonnai Nakota
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Ellery Vladimir Wilcox (1882-1960) was educated at the Illinois College of Photography at Effingham, Illinois, and worked for studios and photographic supply houses in Illinois, South Dakota, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota (1899-1912). In 1912, he purchased the Mason Studio in Scotland, South Dakota, which he operated until 1947. He helped organize South Dakota's first photographic association and the South Dakota chapter of the Master Photo Finishers Association.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Prints (silver gelatin (including contact prints))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1947
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Josephine E. Felton in 1983-1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.83-44
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Studio portraits
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Studio portraits
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection largely consists of studio portraits of Native Americans probably from the Plains, which were most likely made at Wilcox's studio in Scotland, South Dakota. It also includes images of the tombstones of Yankton Dakota Joseph Selwyn (Medicine Cow, ca. 1821-1898), John Pretty Bull (1851-1924), and Feather in Ear (Wiyakaion, d. 1900).