Post by Dietmar on Oct 19, 2011 11:19:42 GMT -5
Daniel S. Mitchell
Ephriam D. Dickson III, "Capturing the Lakota Spirit, Photographers at the Red Cloud & Spotted Tail Agencies," Nebraska History, Spring/Summer 2007
www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH2007Photographers.pdf
In Ephriam´s article there is a picture of the back of a Mitchell stereoview, which has a list of the Indian Portraits. About half of them (highlighted below) have been posted on our boards earlier in different threads or are available at the Smithsonian´s SIRIS, but there are some unknown to me.
It would be great to pull them all together.
Mitchell, McGowan & Co.
Class D. Indian Chiefs Portraits:
1. Spotted Tail, Sioux Chief
2. Red Cloud
3. Red Dog
4. American Horse, in War Shirt, Trimmed with Scalps
5. Little Big Man
6. Young Man Afraid of His Horses
7. Black Bear
8. High Bear
9. Yellow Bear
10. Two Bear
11. Three Bear
12. No Flesh, (in War Shirt, Trimmed with Scalps)
13. Pawnee Killer
14. Little Wound
15. He Dog
16. Stands First
17. Rocky Bear and Squaw
18. Long Buffalo Bull
19. Slow Bull
20. White Bird
21. Iron Crow
22. American Horse and Squaws
23. Little Hawk, Northern Chief
24. Little Hawk and Lieut. Clark
25. Red Shirt (in War Bonnet)
26. Little Wolf
27. The Fisher (Sioux Brave)
28. Roman Nose
29. Sioux Jim (killed by American Horse in 1876)
30. Old Sitting Bull of the South
31. Big Bear
32. Little Elk and Big Bow (Northern Chiefs)
33. Big Belly Sorrel Horse
34. American Horse´s Pappoose
35. Black Coal
36. Sharp Nose
37. Friday
38. Old Eagle
39. Washington
40. White Horse
41. Six Feathers
42. Big Wolf
43. Group of all the Arappahoe Chiefs
44. Red Hand, Cheyenne Chief
45. Big Thunder, Cheyenne Chief
46. The One That Sleeps, Arappahoe Squaw
47. Wolf Killer, Arappahoe Squaw
48. Feather Head, Arappahoe Squaw
49. Spotted Tail´s Daughter, Dove Eyes
50. Money, American Horse´s Niece
51. Walking Cane, American Horse´s Squaw
52. Sioux Kate
53. Sioux Squaw and Sleeping Pappoose
54. Sioux Pappoose fastened to an Indian Pony
From Wikipedia:
Daniel Sedgley Mitchell is a famous photographer best known for his series of stereoscopic views of the Black Hills in 1876, his Indian portraits from the Red Cloud Agency in 1877, and his photographs of the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
Born in 1838 in York County, Maine, Mitchell began his photographic career as an errand boy in a daguerreotype gallery in Maine at the age of nine. During his early years he worked in a number of photographic galleries, ranging from New York City to Boston to Canada.
About 1874, Mitchell departed Boston, leaving behind his wife and children. He apparently first stopped briefly in Kansas. In late 1875, he had opened a studio on Eddy Street in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. In the spring of 1876, he headed north to the Black Hills with his camera, spending the summer making images among the mines. After returning to Cheyenne, he sold his Black Hills stereoviews and continued to produce portraits for the public. In January 1877, he produced portraits of Brigadier General George Crook and of the courtmartial board for Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds. In the spring of 1877, he joined partnership with Joseph H. McGowan and traveled along the Union Pacific Railroad, taking portraits and selling his Black Hills views. In the fall of 1877, he apparently visited the Red Cloud Agency where he took portraits of a majority of the Oglala and Arapaho headmen.
In the spring of 1878, Mitchell and McGowan settled in Omaha where they established the Great Western Photographic Company. Their focus was to mass produce and market Mitchell's two series of photographs as well as a third series, taken by Charles Howard. The partnership dissolved in the fall of 1878. Mitchell then opened a portrait studio in Omaha, in partnership with May J. Cannell, whom he later married.
Mitchell next moved to Norfolk, Nebraska; then to Galesburg, Illinois, and finally in 1889, moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, where he produced an important photographic series of the land rush. Mitchell died in Guthrie in 1929.
The largest surviving collection of Mitchell's Indian portraits from the Red Cloud Agency was preserved by Captain John G. Bourke, former aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. Some of the images are pasted within his diaries, preserved at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Another large number of images were donated to the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. The Nebraska State Historical Society also preserves a number from Bourke's collection.
Ephriam D. Dickson III, "Capturing the Lakota Spirit, Photographers at the Red Cloud & Spotted Tail Agencies," Nebraska History, Spring/Summer 2007
www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH2007Photographers.pdf
In Ephriam´s article there is a picture of the back of a Mitchell stereoview, which has a list of the Indian Portraits. About half of them (highlighted below) have been posted on our boards earlier in different threads or are available at the Smithsonian´s SIRIS, but there are some unknown to me.
It would be great to pull them all together.
Mitchell, McGowan & Co.
Class D. Indian Chiefs Portraits:
1. Spotted Tail, Sioux Chief
2. Red Cloud
3. Red Dog
4. American Horse, in War Shirt, Trimmed with Scalps
5. Little Big Man
6. Young Man Afraid of His Horses
7. Black Bear
8. High Bear
9. Yellow Bear
10. Two Bear
11. Three Bear
12. No Flesh, (in War Shirt, Trimmed with Scalps)
13. Pawnee Killer
14. Little Wound
15. He Dog
16. Stands First
17. Rocky Bear and Squaw
18. Long Buffalo Bull
19. Slow Bull
20. White Bird
21. Iron Crow
22. American Horse and Squaws
23. Little Hawk, Northern Chief
24. Little Hawk and Lieut. Clark
25. Red Shirt (in War Bonnet)
26. Little Wolf
27. The Fisher (Sioux Brave)
28. Roman Nose
29. Sioux Jim (killed by American Horse in 1876)
30. Old Sitting Bull of the South
31. Big Bear
32. Little Elk and Big Bow (Northern Chiefs)
33. Big Belly Sorrel Horse
34. American Horse´s Pappoose
35. Black Coal
36. Sharp Nose
37. Friday
38. Old Eagle
39. Washington
40. White Horse
41. Six Feathers
42. Big Wolf
43. Group of all the Arappahoe Chiefs
44. Red Hand, Cheyenne Chief
45. Big Thunder, Cheyenne Chief
46. The One That Sleeps, Arappahoe Squaw
47. Wolf Killer, Arappahoe Squaw
48. Feather Head, Arappahoe Squaw
49. Spotted Tail´s Daughter, Dove Eyes
50. Money, American Horse´s Niece
51. Walking Cane, American Horse´s Squaw
52. Sioux Kate
53. Sioux Squaw and Sleeping Pappoose
54. Sioux Pappoose fastened to an Indian Pony