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Photograph album, "A few remembrances of travel in the South West and West".
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Object Number 995-26-00/1
Display Title Photograph album, "A few remembrances of travel in the South West and West".
Descriptions
Object Description Inscribed photograph album of fifty (50) views assembled by J.W. Davis . Twenty-eight (28) views by Davis representing dwellings, dress, burial sites, pueblos, etc. Cultures represented include the Dakota, Omaha, Ponca, Mission, and Isleta (Tiwa). Remaining prints are commercial views of Yosemite and Yellowstone by J.H. White of Boston. Subjects also include Canon de Chelley and pictures of Native Americans, some of which are identified as Standing Bear (Ponca) "old Ponca chief", Iron Eye (Omaha), Rain in the Face (Dakota) "credited as the one who killed Custer", and Pablo (Pala) "the leading man of Pala".
Department Photographic
Date 1880-1900
Artist Joshua W. Davis
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
North America / United States / Arizona
North America / United States / Nevada
North America / United States / California
North America / United States / North Dakota
North America / United States / Nebraska
Materials Album
Label on object See notes and histories for inscriptions
Provenance
Donor Friends of the Lincoln Library

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