Royal Engineers Photographs

[grahamew]

In 1856 the War Department appointed the South Kensington Museum photographer Charles Thurston Thompson to teach photography to the Royal Engineers. On one expedition these soldier-photographers documented the border between the USA and Canada. From the crest of the Rockies westwards along the 49th Parallel to the coast, they painstakingly recorded everything that crossed their path, producing 'one of the earliest significant body of photographs made in the Pacific Northwest'.

collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O169802/photograph-indian-encampment-at-fort-colville/
elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=jcas
Northwest Boundary Commission - the Science
Guide to the Northwest Boundary Survey Photographs from the Papers of George Clinton Gardner, 1858-1862 (bulk 1860-1861)
www.nms.ac.uk/media/1150307/royal-engineers-ir.pdf
www.royalengineers.ca/REtheBC.html

[grahamew]

I see all these are gone...


Nez Perce man, the brother in law of Hudson's Bay factor Angus MacDonald


MacDonald's child


Kootenai men


Kootenai Village with fish trap, Tobacco Plains


Indian camp at Fort Colville




Village on the Pend Oreille River


Colville/Swhy-ayl-puh woman and child


Two Indian men at Fort Colville


Garry, Spokane leader


Three of Garry's men


Kalispel couple


Kootenai or Colville men


Kootenai youths


Kootenai group


Indians on Vancouver Island

[Californian]

thanks for posting these Grahame, these images are superb !

Aug 19, 2020 6:03:29 GMT -5 grahamew said:

I see all these are gone...


Nez Perce man, the brother in law of Hudson's Bay factor Angus MacDonald


MacDonald's child


Kootenai men


Kootenai Village with fish trap, Tobacco Plains


Indian camp at Fort Colville




Village on the Pend Oreille River


Colville/Swhy-ayl-puh woman and child


Two Indian men at Fort Colville


Garry, Spokane leader


Three of Garry's men


Kalispel couple


Kootenai or Colville men


Kootenai youths


Kootenai group


Indians on Vancouver Island

[grahamew]

I have this image labelled: Spokane man by Royal Engineers at Fort Colville, yet it doesn't seem to share the same backdrop of any of the above images; moreover, It would seem to be the Nez Perce, Lawyer:



And this time, in a different image, he is labelled as Lawyer, the Nez Perce laeader. He's carrying the same bandolier bag in both photos:



Another, this time unidentified, image allegedlt taken by the Royal Engineers. Possibly Nez Perce: