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Olga Ross Hannon Photographs, 1944-1947
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Hannon, Olga Ross
- Title
- Olga Ross Hannon Photographs
- Dates
- 1944-194719441947
- Quantity
- .4 linear feet
- Collection Number
- Collection 1126, MtBC, us (collection)
- Summary
- The Olga Ross Hannon Photographs consist of photographic prints and 35mm transparencies. The images were taken by Hannon or collected by her. Also found in the collection are samples of artwork created by Hannon or Native American Artists, as well as a selection of postcards. These images are primarily of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Chippewa-Cree people of Montana, with an emphasis on their lodge designs.
- Repository
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Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Olga Ross Hannon was born in Moline, Illinois on September 15, 1890. She received her art education at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Students League of New York City, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Snow-Froelich School of Industrial Art. Hannon taught art at the Sheridan, Wyoming high school prior to joining the faculty at Montana State College in Bozeman in 1921. She served as Head of Applied Art at MSC from 1941-1947. She served as Acting Dean of the Division of Household and Applied Arts in 1944-1945. In addition to her teaching duties she organized Delta Phi Delta, the art honorary at Montana State College and served as a national president for eight years. Mrs. Hannon was Montana representative for the American Artists Professional League. She was editor of the art section of the MEA. Mrs. Hannon was a collector of Indian, Oriental and Mexican arts and crafts and a photographed native peoples throughout Montana and other western states. She spearheaded a project for the preservation of the designs on the painted lodges of the Blackfeet Indians by means of the silk screen process. Hannon died in Wickenburg, Arizona on May 4, 1947.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Hannon images have been divided into two boxes: photographic prints and 35mm transparencies. The 435 prints in Box 1 are (for the most part) photographs taken by Hannon herself or collected by her and have been individually numbered. These numbered prints have been placed in thirty-nine numbered folders that have broad topical labels. Among these photographs can be found samples of artwork created by Hannon or Native American artists, and a large selection of postcards. Most of the postcards pertain to Indian tribes of the American southwest and have been placed in folders 14 through 39. The 35mm transparencies consist of 270 images that have not been placed in numbered folders. As a result, the slides themselves have been assigned individual image numbers that are prefaced with the word "slide." The titles were taken from notes written on the cardboard slide mountings. These images are primarily of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Chippewa-Cree people of Montana, with an emphasis on their lodge designs.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
Original 35 mm slides and photographic prints of Montana Native American peoples and their lodges created by Olga Ross Hannon were donated to Montana State University by her friend, Jessie Wilber of Bozeman, Montana on January 28, 1977. This collection incorporates images previously designated as Collection 2252.
Processing Note
This collection was processed 2017 September 12
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Assiniboine Indians, Images #1-2 | |
1/2 | Mostafa Adl and the Iranian Delegation at Glacier National Park, Images #3-24 | June 30, 1945 |
1/3 | Blackfeet Indians, Images #25-55 | |
1/4 | Blackfeet Indians, Images #56-70 | |
1/5 | Blackfeet Indians, Images #71-145 | |
1/6 | Cheyenne Indians, Images #146-151 | |
1/7 | Glacier National Park, Images #152-154 | |
1/8 | Various tribes, Images #155-168 | |
1/9 | Crow Indians, Images #169-218 | |
1/10 | Various tribes, Images #219-227 | |
1/11 | Parflesch designs, Images #228-231 | |
1/12 | Heilman photos, Images #232-243 | |
1/13 | Miscellaneous artwork, Images #238-243 | |
1/14 | Acoma, Images #244-256 | |
1/15 | Acoma Laguna, Images #257-264 | |
1/16 | Apache, Images #265-267 | |
1/17 | Chimayo, Images 268-273 | |
1/18 | Cochiti, Images #274-281 | |
1/19 | Firjoles, Images #282-288 | |
1/20 | General, Images #289-291 | |
1/21 | Hopi, Images #292-300 | |
1/22 | Isleta, Images #301-304 | |
1/23 | Mesa Verde, Images #305-310 | |
1/24 | Moqui, Image #311 | |
1/25 | Navajo, Images #312-334 | |
1/26 | Pueblo, Images #335-338 | |
1/27 | Puye, Images #339-340 | |
1/28 | San Dia, Image #341 | |
1/29 | San Ildefonso, Images #342-354 | |
1/30 | San Juan, Image #355 | |
1/31 | San Philippe, Images #356-360 | |
1/32 | Santa Clara, Images #361-369 | |
1/33 | Santa Domingo, Images #370-380 | |
1/34 | Santa Fe, Images #381-384 | |
1/35 | Tesuque, Images #385-389 | |
1/36 | Taos, Images #390-400 | |
1/37 | Taos, Images #401-410 | |
1/38 | Taos, Images #411-420 | |
1/39 | Taos, Images #421-435 | |
box-slide | ||
2/1 | Blood Encampment | July 1944 |
2/2 | Blood Encampment | 1944 |
2/3 | Blackfoot Encampment | June 1944 |
2/4-5 | Blood Encampment | July 1944 |
2/6 | General Tipis Heart Butte, Montana | July 1944 |
2/7 | Tipis Browning, Montana | 1942 |
2/8-9 | Tipis Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/10 | Tipis Little Badger, Montana | July 1942 |
2/11 | General Tipis Heart Butte, Montana | 1944 |
2/12 | Blackfoot Sacred Lodge (right) | June 1945 |
2/13 | Blackfoot men learning to get poles for Sun Dance Lodge | July 1945 |
2/14 | Blackfoot men learning to get Sun Dance Lodge poles | July 1945 |
2/15 | Bringing poles and brush for Sun Dance Lodge Little Badger, Montana | July 1942 |
2/16 | Tipis Blackfeet | 1945 |
2/7 | Sun Dance Lodge Heart Butte, Montana | 1944 |
2/18 | Part of Weasel Tail Blackfoot | July 1945 |
2/19 | Blackfoot Sun Lodge | July 1942 |
2/20 | Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/21 | Buffalo skull behind Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Mintana | July 1945 |
2/22 | Inside Sun Dance Lodge | |
2/23 | Blessing people inside Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/24-25 | Chewing Black Bones at Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/26 | Chewing Black Bones blessing people in Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/27 | Chewing Black Bones in Sun Dance Lodge Blackfoot | July 1945 |
2/28 | Blackfoot Sweat Lodge Browning, Montana | July 1945 |
2/29 | Blackfoot Sacred Lodge | July 1945 |
2/30-31 | Blackfoot Medicine Women | July 1945 |
2/32 | Indians and Tipis at Little Badger | 1942 |
2/33 | Setting up tipi Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/34-35 | Pole arrangements Blackfoot | July 1945 |
2/36 | Tipi rings ten miles south of Browning, Montana | |
2/37 | Blood Medicine Bundle | |
2/38 | War Banner Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/39 | Tipi lining Made by Julia Wades in the Water Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/40 | Tipi door panel - Julia Wades in the Water tipi Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/41 | Painted lodge lining Owner: Mr. R. H. Willcomb | |
2/42 | Unidentified | |
2/43-44 | Jerky drying Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/45 | Blackfoot Travois | 1942 |
2/46-47 | Stickgame Browning, Montana | July 1942 |
2/48 | Game of sticks Heart Butte, Montana | July 1944 |
2/49 | Blackfoot Grass Dance | 1942 |
2/50 | Grass Dance Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/51-52 | Blackfoot Grass Dance | July 1942 |
2/53-56 | At a War Dance Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/57 | Crazy Dogs Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/58 | At a War Dance Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/59-63 | At a War Dance Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/64 | Indians on horseback Browning, Montana | 1942 |
2/65 | Group of Blackfeet Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/66 | Group of Blackfoot at ceremony | July 1, 1945 |
2/67 | Indian ceremony Little Badger, Montana | July 1942 |
2/68 | Blackfoot Ceremony | July 1, 1945 |
2/69 | Group of Blackfoot | July 1, 1945 |
2/70 | Blackfoot Chief | July 1942 |
2/71 | Blackfoot Give Away | July 1942 |
2/72 | Indian on horse Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/73 | Indians on flatbed Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/74 | 4th of July Parade Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/75 | 4th of July Parade Browning, Montana | July 4, 1942 |
2/76 | Blackfoot Browning, Montana | July 4, 1944 |
2/77 | Blackfoot on horse Browning, Montana | July 4, 1944 |
2/78 | Blackfoot (group sitting at ceremony) | 1945 |
2/79 | Blackfoot (group of chiefs sitting at ceremony) | 1942 |
2/80 | Blackfoot give away in old Sun Dance Lodge | July 1945 |
2/81 | Give away Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/82 | Peter Whiteman Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/83 | Joe Spotted Eagle Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/84 | Pete Whiteman and son; Joe Spotted Eagle and son Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/85 | Eugene Head Carrier, Raymond Aims Back Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/86 | Albert Mad Plume Heart Butte, Montana | July 1944 |
2/87 | Sipeakumi (Night Howler) Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/88 | Mrs. Frank (Kate) Many Fingers, Blood Indian | |
2/89 | Blackfoot with horse | July 1942 |
2/90 | Marie Bear Medicine Blackfoot | 1942 |
2/91 | Woman and child in front of tipi Browning, Montana | July 1942 |
2/92 | Blackfoot woman | 1942 |
2/93 | Joe New Robe Heart Butte, Montana | July 1945 |
2/94 | Mr. and Mrs. Big Face Chief - Bloods of Brockett, Alberta, Canada Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/95 | Mr. Swims Under Little Badger, Montana | 1942 |
2/96 | Fred Tail Feathers at All Star lodge Browning, Montana | 1944(?) |
2/97 | Fred Tail Feathers, Blood Reserve, "All Star" tipi used by John Eagle Ribs, Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/98 | Antelope tipi Mrs. Bob Rider, Blood Indian | |
2/99 | Bear tipi Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian | |
2/100-101 | Bear tipi (detail) Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian | |
2/102 | Bear tipi Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian | |
2/103 | Bear tipi (detail) Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian | |
2/104 | Beaver or Badger tipi Cecil Black Boy Blackfoot | July 1942 |
2/105 | Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider Blackfoot | June 1945 |
2/106 | Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider Blackfoot | 1944 |
2/107 | Rear of Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider - Blackfoot | June 1945 |
2/108 | Big Rock tipi Minnie Aims Baack Heart Butte, Montana | 1944 |
2/109-110 | Yellow Buffalo tipi James White Calf Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/111 | Yellow Buffalo tipi (detail) | |
2/112-113 | Yellow Buffalo tipi James White Calf Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/114 | Buffalo Head tipi Mud Head Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/115 | Buffalo Head tipi (detail) Mud Head Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/116 | Buffalo Hoofs tipi Mrs. Black Plume, Blood Indian | |
2/117 | Buffalo Hoofs tipi belongs to Mary Ground Blackfoot | 1945 |
2/118 | Cow Head Tipi (detail) Frank Choate, "Red Paint" Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/119 | Cow Head tipi Blood Indian | 1944 |
2/120 | Cow Head tipi (detail) Blood Indian | 1944 |
2/121 | Crow tipi (detail) Henry and Isabel Bear Medicine Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/122 | Crow tipi Henry and Isabel Bear Medicine Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/123-124 | Curlew tipi (detail) Mark Wolf Child, Blood Indian | |
2/125-126 | Curlew lodge Mark Wolf Child, Blood Indian | |
2/127 | Elk or Deer tipi Dan Bull Plume Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/128 | Rear of Deer or Elk lodge Blackfoot | June 1945 |
2/129 | Tipis at Little Badger, Montana | July 1942 |
2/130 | Elk or Deer and Person tipi Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/131 | Donkey tipi (detail) Mary Rides at the Door given to Julia Wades in the Water | 1944 |
2/132 | Eagle tipi Blackfoot | July 1942 |
2/133-134 | Eagle tipi (detail) Wolf Robe, Blood Indian | |
2/135 | Eagle tipi Wolf Robe, Blood Indian | |
2/136 | Medicine Bundle with Eagle Lodge Wolf Robe, Blood Indian | |
2/137 | Deer or Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/138 | Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/139 | Elk lodge John and Mary Mountain Chief Blackfoot | July 1945 |
2/140 | Deer or Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/141 | Fish tipi Tom Many Guns Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/142 | Mountain Sheep tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian | |
2/143 | Goat tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian | |
2/144 | Goat tipi (detail) Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian | |
2/145 | Mountain Sheep Tipi (detail) Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian | |
2/146 | Goat tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian | |
2/147 | Monument to Chief Red Crow (Goat tipi in background) Frank Red Crow and family | |
2/148 | 2 tipis next to monument to Chief Red Crow Frank Red Crow | |
2/149 | Tipi given to Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian, by Chewing Black Bones | |
2/150 | Blood Indian tipi | |
2/151 | Medicine Pipe tipi Mrs. Shoots First Browning, Montana | July 1944 |
2/152 | Moon tipi Owned by Chief Coward Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/153 | Moon tipi Blackfoot | 1944 |
2/154 | Moon tipi Owned by Chief Coward Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/155 | Medicine Bundle at Moon Lodge Crow Spreads His Wings | |
2/156 | Medicine Bundle at Moon Tipi Crow Spreads His Wings | |
2/157-158 | Single Circle Otter tipi (detail) Chewing Black Bones Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/159 | Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/160 | Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones Blackfoot | July 1942 |
2/1610 | Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones Little Badger, Montana | July 1942 |
2/162-163 | Orange and blue Otter tipi Deer Rider, Blood Indian | |
2/164-165 | Medicine bundle at Otter tipi Deer Rider, Blood Indian | |
2/166 | Person lodge Little Badger, Montana | 1944 |
2/167 | Person tipi Mrs. Swims Under Heart Butte, Montana | 1944 |
2/168 | Person tipi Fish Wolf Robe Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/169 | Person tipi (detail) Fish Wolf Robe Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/170 | Person tipi Fish Wolf Robe Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/171-172 | Plume tipi Charlie Iron Breast Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/173 | Prairie Chicken Lodge Josephine Turtle Blackfoot | July 1945 |
2/174 | Prairie Chicken tipi Josephine Turtle Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/175 | Prairie Chicken and Deer tipis Blackfoot | July 1942 |
2/176 | Tipi Albert Mad Plume Heart Butte, Montana | 1944 |
2/177 | 3 tipis Little Badger, Montana | 1943 |
2/178-180 | Snake tipi Willie Scraping White, Blood Indian | |
2/181-183 | Snake tipi (close up) Willie Scraping White, Blood Indian | |
2/184 | Red Snake tipi Yellow Kidney (Ensima) Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/185 | Red Snake and Moon tipis Browning, Montana | 1944 |
2/186-187 | Winter tipi Crow Spreads His Wings, Blood Indian | |
2/188 | Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides, Blood Indian | |
2/189 | Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides | |
2/190 | Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides, Blood Indian | |
2/191 | Yellow Tipi George Dog Child | |
2/192 | Yellow tipi George Dog Child, Blood Indian | |
2/193-194 | Yellow tipi Bull Head (No. Piegan), Blood Indian | |
2/195 | Tipi Bruised Head, Blood Indian | |
2/196 | Yellow tipi Charlie Good Rider, Blood Indian | |
2/197 | Tipi, Little Badger, Montana | July 1942 |
2/198-199 | Moccasin Flats, Browning, Montana | March 1944 |
2/200 | Tipis in front of Glacier Park Lodge | 1942 |
2/201 | Blackfeet tipis in front of Glacier Park Lodge | Summer 1940 |
2/202 | Under Moose tipi (detail) - property of Glacier Park Blackfoot | July 1, 1945 |
2/203 | Tipi, Glacier Park | July 2, 1945 |
2/204 | Under Moose tipi (detail) property of Glacier Park | July 2, 1945 |
2/205 | Group of Blackfoot Indians to greet San Francisco delegation | July 2, 1945 |
2/206 | Theodore Last Star and 2 Feathers in Hair | |
2/207 | Lt. Commander Mandley being inducted into tribe, Glacier Park, Montana | July 2, 1945 |
2/208 | Group of inductees with tribal members, Glacier Park, Montana | July 2, 1945 |
2/209 | Paul Boncour of France being inducted into tribe, Glacier Park, Montana | July 2, 1945 |
2/210 | Group of inductees with tribal members, Glacier Park, Montana | July 2, 1945 |
2/211 | Sir A. Ramaswami Modalier, India inducted into tribe by Running Sun | |
2/212 | Sol Bloom of New York inducted by Buffalo Chief and Theodore Last Star | |
2/213-218 | Rocky Boy encampment | June 1945 |
2/219-220 | Rocky Boy Town | June 1945 |
2/221-231 | Rocky Boy Sun Dance Lodge | 1945 |
2/232-236 | Rocky Boy Sacred Lodge | 1945 |
2/237 | Baptise Sammatt | |
2/238-241 | Baptise Sammatt tipi | |
2/242-244 | Baptise Sammatt tipi (fish detail) | |
2/245-247 | Pete Ferel tipi | |
2/248-250 | Pete Ferel tipi detail | |
2/251-254 | Mrs. Left Hand Boy tipi | |
2/255-257 | Mrs. Left Hand Boy tipi (detail) | |
2/258 | Paint skin owned by Reverend Petter of Lame Deer | 1944 |
2/259-262 | Mrs. Lucy Real Bird of Lodge Grass | August 1944 |
2/263-266 | Picture Writing Rock in N.W. North Dakota | September 1944 |
2/267-268 | Martha Hensley, Henry and Edgar Syverod at Writing Rock | |
2/269-270 | Ceremonial Ring near Writing Rock |