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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Consists of miscellaneous single-item acquisitions of photographs that span multiple collecting areas, topics, genres, and time periods.
Includes various purchases and gifts.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
Descriptions of items are provided by processing archivists, including Kalliopi Balatsouka, Faith Charlton, Lauren C. Williams, and Amy C. Vo.
No material was separated during processing.
People
- Ahpeatone, Chief, -1931
- Ahpeatone, Guohaddle, 1860-1935
- Black Coal, Chief
- American Horse, Samuel
- Hü King Eng, Dr.
- Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922
- White Man Runs Him, approximately 1855-1925
- Two Moon, 1847-1917
- Wooden Leg, 1858-1940
- Wanamaker, Rodman (1863-1928)
- Plenty Coups (1848-1932)
- Yellowtail, Robert
- Mountain Chief, 1848-1942
- Red Cloud, Jack
- Medicine Crow
- Pierce, Norman C. (1906-1976)
- Blom, Gertrude Duby
- Chan Bor, José Pepe
Organization
Subject
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- African American women -- Pictorial works
- African American students -- History -- 19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina -- Sources
- Kiowa Indians. -- photographs
- Indians of North America -- Portraits. -- 19th century
- Arapaho Indians
- Oglala Indians
- Osage Indians
- Indians of North America -- photographs
- Mines and mineral resources -- Iran
- Coffee plantations -- Yemen (Republic)
- Coffee -- Harvesting
- African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing
- Chinese students -- Pictorial works
- Oil well drilling -- History. -- 19th century -- Sources
- Titusville (Pa.) -- History. -- 19th century -- Sources
- African American women -- 19th century -- Portraits
- Indians of North America -- Chiefs. -- photographs
- Crow Indians. -- photographs
- Cheyenne Indians. -- photographs
- Oglala Indians -- photographs
- Siksika Indians -- photographs
- Mormons -- Utah. -- 20th century
- Lacandon Indians. -- 20th century -- photographs
- Indians of Mexico
Place
- Iṣfahān (Iran) -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Yemen (Republic) -- 20th century -- photographs
- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.) -- History -- Pictorial works
- Oil Creek (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.)
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1893
- Perry (Okla.) -- History -- 19th century
- Orlando (Okla.) -- History -- 19th century
- Salt Lake City (Utah)
- Mexico -- 20th century -- photographs
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- 2024
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
Albumen print photograph showing two Black women standing in front of a Reconstruction-era home.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsalbumen print on card mountmount 13 x 18 cm
Carte-de-visite photograph of the Carolina Singers, a singing group from the Fairfield Normal Institute in Winnsboro, South Carolina, that toured to raise funds for the school. Seven Black people appear in the photograph, three of whom are standing and four seated. The photographer's name and address are printed on the back of the card: E. F. Hovey, Photograph Publisher, 1226 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penna.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printson card mountmount 7 x 11 cm
Cabinet card photograph of Kiowa Chief Ahpeahtone and his wife Guohaddle Ahpeatone. The pair are standing among trees and facing forward. Inscribed with the chief's name in pencil on the back of the card mount.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsblack and white photograph on card mountmount 19 x 14 cm
Cabinet card photographic portrait of Chief Black Coal, seated and holding a carbine rifle. With the stamp of photographer M. D. Houghton of Rawlins, Wyoming, on the back.
HoughtonMerritt Dana Houghton moved to Laramie, Wyoming, with his wife in 1875, where he worked as a schoolteacher. Houghton was also a professional photographer and began a career as a sketch artist in 1890.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printson card mountmount 17 x 11 cm
Cabinet card photographic portrait of Samuel American Horse. He is seated, facing front, and wearing a breastplate. Labeled "American Horse" in typed letters with inventory number "57." Inscribed on the back: "Spenser," "Lakota Prisoner," "Ft. Sheridan/Chicago."
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsblack and white photograph on card mountmount 17 x 11 cm
Photograph of a group of Osage men, women, and children in front of a building. The men are standing with the women and children in front of them. The photograph has the caption "War Dance" and is mounted on a cabinet card with the name G. W. Parsons, Pawhuska, Ok. Territory.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsblack and white photograph on card mountmount 11 x 17 cm
Cabinet card photograph of two Indigenous girls, possibly Kiowa, with imprint of photographers Irwin & Mankins, Chickasha and Duncan, I. T. The girls are standing next to a teepee and facing forward. The girl on the right is wearing a cross.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsblack and white photograph on card mountmount 17 x 11 cm
Contains 18 color photographs of miners and industrial equipment at the Shah-Kuh Mine in Esfahan, Iran. Includes typed captions in German that provide context about the work being performed in the photographs. Title label on cover board: "November 1967, Shah-Kuh Mine, Bama Mining Cy., Esfahan Iran." Missing rear board.
Physical Description1 itemphotograph album with 18 color photographsalbum 15 x 23 cm; photographs 7 x 10 cm
Consists of 44 black and white photographs from places in Yemen, including Sanaa, Hodeida, Menaha, Taiz, Mokha, and Al-Hujariah. The photographs largely feature coffee plantations and production, along with landscapes and city panoramas. Also pictured are Yemenite Jews, other Yemenis, Agenzia Lazzerini, and the home of Dr. Tommaso Sarnelli. All photographs are captioned in Italian on the back.
Physical Description44 Photographic Printsblack and white photographs14 x 9 cm
Consists of 39 black and white photographs depicting African American soldiers at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada. The photographs mostly feature two African American men captioned with names "Ike" and "Griff" interacting with each other with scenes of the Camp as backdrop. One shows "Griff" in front of a "CO B 412th ENGR CONST BN" sign. Three of the photographs show the bomb detonated in the distance — one of which is captioned "Atomic Bomb May 12, 1953."
Twenty-two of the photographs are mounted to album pages, 8 are loose with remnants of mounting on the back, and 8 are trimmed portraits of African American women. The album photographs are 4" x 3" and the portraits average 1" x 1.5".
There are also two album pages, one with a newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Examiner, October 4, 1953, about a football game between Bakersfield High School and Jordan High School. The other has an 8" x 10" photograph of a football game.
Physical Description39 Photographic Printsblack and white photographs9 x 12 cm, 4 x 3 cm, and 21 x 26 cm
A full standing portrait of Hü King Eng, the second Chinese woman to study medicine in the United States. Albumen print on photographer's mount that dates from her four years as an undergraduate at Ohio Wesleyan University (1884-1888). In the photograph, she wears heavily embroidered Chinese-style clothing and many pieces of jewelry.
The photographer's imprint reads "BoDurtha" and "Delaware, Ohio" on the lower portion of the mount.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsalbumen print mounted on card mountmount 17 x 11 cm
Group of 22 stereo views of oil regions in western Pennsylvania. The images portray drilling rigs, oil drums, laborers among buildings and with horses, and other subjects.
The back of the cards contain paper labels with the printed series title and photographer's name, "J. A. Mather, Titusville, Pa." The labels also have handwritten titles, including: "Oil Seekers Pithole Penn," "Green Mountain Well," "Champion Wells Pioneer River," "RR Bridge & Pioneer from Oil Creek," "New York Well Pioneer," "Lady Stewart & Lady Brooks Pioneer River," "Petroleum Center Penn," "Fishers Shipping Sheds," "Old Shipping Platform Miller Farms," and "Sunken Fortune or Ruined Man."
MatherPhotographer John Aked Mather settled in TItusville, Pennsylvania, in 1860, and from there he travelled along Oil Creek River on his flatbed studio photographing views of the oil industry.
Physical Description22 items22 stereographs9 x 18 cm
A bust-length daguerreotype portrait of an African American woman. Her lips and cheeks have been tinted pink and her bowtie is blue.
Ninth-plate daguerreotype in Littlefield, Parsons & Co. thermoplastic Union case.
Physical Description1 itemdaguerreotype7 x 6 cm
Photograph of John and Lewis Rodman Wanamaker with a group of 14 Indigenous men from the delegation brought together for Wanamaker's ground breaking ceremony for the proposed National American Indian Memorial, which was never built. The Indigenous men are wearing traditional ceremonial items such as moccasins, headdresses, and breastplates, as they were asked to wear clothing that conformed to stereotypes of American Indian culture. The photograph was taken in Rodman Wanamaker's Philadelphia office.
From left to right: Plenty Coups (Crow) (1848-1932), Medicine Crow (Crow), White Man Runs Him (Crow) (c.1855-1925), Robert Yellowtail? (Crow) (1889-1988), John Wanamaker (1838-1922), Two Moons (Cheyenne) (1847-1917), Mountain Chief? (Blackfoot) (1848-1942), Louis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928), Wooden Leg (Cheyenne) (c.1858-1940), Jack Red Cloud (Oglala Lakota) (c.1858-1918). The six delegates on the far right have not been identified.
Physical Description1 Photographic Printsblack and white silver gelatin photograph21 x 26 cm
Consists of 17 silver gelatin photographs depicting the Oklahoma land run (also called the "Cherokee Strip Land Rush") of September 1893, taken by photographers Andrew Alexander Forbes, William S. Prettyman, and other, unidentified photographers. The photographs show events before, during, and after the rush, including men, women, and children participants, most of whom are white. Black participants are also featured.
Images include: pictures of crowds gathering at the land offices in Orlando, Oklahoma Territory to register; the start of the rush as well as the moments just before and just after; crowds that include women and African American participants; and photographs of "Hell's Half Acre" – a tent city with over 100 saloons and gambling establishments created on the day of the rush when 40,000 participants pitched tents in what would become the town of Perry, Oklahoma. Some photographs show signs for businesses such as Pabst Beer, the Red Light Saloon, The Times Restaurant, "Moore & Budd, Land Attorney's," and "Dinking & Bennett, Atty."
Each image is captioned in the negative and mounted on a black card with the embossed imprint of Hughes, Perry, O.T.
Physical Description17 Photographic Printssilver gelatin photographs on card mountsmount 23 x 18 cm
Consists of 11 black and white portrait photographs of Norman C. Pierce. One photograph shows Pierce standing, is 3 x 4.25 inches, and has a caption in blue ink on the back: "Uncle Norman C. Pierce, Salt Lake City, 1944." The other ten photographs are 8 x 10 inches, and six of these appeared in the article "Is the World Coming to an End? Yes, says Norman Pierce, and Maybe Sooner than You Think," in the March 1975 issue of The Salt Flat News. Pierce is sitting on an upholstered chair in 9 of the photographs and standing in front of a framed, hanging artwork in one photograph.
Physical Description11 Photographic Prints26 x 21 cm or smaller
Consists of four black and white photographs of José Pepe Chan Bor. Other people who appear in the photographs are a man named Jorge from near the Jatate River, Carmen Na Bor, and Lacanja Chansayab President Juan Chan Bor. Captions written by Gertrude Duby Blom appear on the back of three of the photographs identifying the people in them.
José Pepe Chan Bor, according to Blom, was a Lacandon man who lived in the region of the River Cedro, not far from Lacanja Chansayab.
Physical Description4 Photographic Prints