The Institute of the American West photograph collection, 1886-1985

Overview of the Collection

Title
The Institute of the American West photograph collection
Dates
1886-1985 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 boxes
Collection Number
P0046
Summary
The Institute of the American West photograph collection contains portraits and photographs documenting the history of the West and of Native Americans. The collection includes photographs documenting trips to Indian reservations relating to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and activities on the Navajo reservation in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Also included are photographs used in several television documentaries on the West, and portraits of participants in several conferences related to Western history.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Institute of the American West was a non-profit educational organization established in 1974. It was originally designated the Humanities Division of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Sun Valley, Idaho. In 1978, E. Richard Hart became director of the Institute, a position he held through 1984.

The collection contains photographs, negatives and proof sheets for the conferences and other activities of the Institute. The major conferences, held annually, were successful from their inception. Much of the photograph collection documents the planning, execution, and follow-up of the events and the use made of the materials generated by the conferences, i.e., broadcasts and publications. Also included are pictures of Institute Advisory Board members, participants, and program leaders. These papers were donated to the University of Utah by E. Richard Hart in 1984 and 1985, with additional materials arriving on a steady basis.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Gift of E. Richard Hart, 1984 and 1985.

Processing Note

Processed by Peter Schmid in 1988.

Separated Materials

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Institute of the American West audio-visual collection (A0046).

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Institute of the American West records (MS 0582).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Institute Programs and ActivitiesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
1 1
Charlotte Lloyd Walkup Photographs
  • Photos taken by or given to Ms. Walkup in 1936-1937 when she was Charlotte Tuttle Westwood, attorney in the Solicitor's Office of the Interior Department, in connection with trips to Indian reservations in the Mid-West to assist in tribal organizations under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Photos are copies from originals. For negatives, see proof sheets in Box 2
  • 1: Wounded Knee Cemetery
  • 2: U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs Agency Office at Pine Ridge, South Dakota
  • 3-4: Mr. Ben Reifel and Sioux Representative, Mr. Keller, at Pine Ridge I.R.A. meeting
  • 5-9: July 4 celebration at Kyle, Pine Ridge
  • 10: Meeting on an I.R.A. charter at the extreme northwest end of the Cheyenne River Reservation
  • 11-12: Meeting at Thunder Butte (Cheyenne River). District meeting house being built by Indians from Resettlement funds
  • 13: An I.R.A. meeting of Cheyennes at La Plante
  • 14: Meeting at Red Scaffold School on Cheyenne River
  • 15-17: Omaha people at a temporary road camp at the Winnebago Agency
  • 18: Dr. Roe Cloud casting the first Winnebago vote on their I.R.A. constitution. Other Winnebago people watch
  • 19: Men at time of Winnebago vote on I.R.A. constitution
  • 20-21: Winnebago Agency home during I.R.A. meetings. Ms. Walkup present
  • 22-23: Winnebago basket makers in front of Agency home
  • 24-25: Ms. Walkup at Winnebago Agency
  • 26 I.R.A. meeting at Winnebago Agency including Mr. Alfred, Farm Agent to Omahas; Superintendent Parker; Dr. Roe Cloud; Mrs. Merrich, Land Clerk; Frank Beaver, Chair, Winnebago Council; Felix Cohen; Ed Cline, former chair of Omaha Council; Lucy Cohen; "Dalken;" "Lillian;" Elwood Harlan, Chair of Omaha Council; Joe Penusha, Chair of Ponca Council; Isaac Redowl, Santee; Joe Jennings; David Frazer, Chair of Santee Council; and Mr. Brewer, Farm Agent of Niobara. Others unidentified
  • 27: Santee Sioux at I.R.A. meeting in Nebraska
  • 28: Ms. Walkup, Indian Chief Clark, and Superintendent Parker at Winnebago Agency
  • 29: Winnebago people
  • 30-31: Agency and school office at Pipestone Indian School, Minnesota
  • 32: School children at the Pipestone Indian School
  • 33-34: Sibley County, Minnesota
  • 35-37: Unidentified buildings, possibly in Sibley County
  • 38: U.S. Land Office, Chippewa Indian Headquarters and Forestry Bldg., Cass Lake, Minnesota
  • 39-40: Mr. Munnell, author of the Consolidated Chippewa Constitution, and Mr. Murrell, interpreter at the Chippewa meeting on I.R.A. at Cass Lake
  • 41: I.R.A. meeting with Chippewas at Bay Mills (tribal leaders and Superintendent Burns)
  • 42: Herman Cameron, leader of Bay Mills Chippewas near St. Marie, Michigan, at grave of ancestors on reservation
1 2
E. Reeseman Fryer Photographs
  • Photographs by or courtesy of Mr. Fryer from late 1930s and early 1940s. Fryer was General Superintendent of the Navajo Reservation during this period. For negatives, see proof sheets in Box 2
  • 43-44: The Navajo Police Patrol, who patrolled Navajo Indian Reservation in 1930s
  • 45: Dr. W.W. Peter, Medical Director of the Navajo Service, speaking at the dedication of the Ft. Defiance Base Hospital, with Howard Johnson, Vice Chair of the Navajo Tribal Council, interpreting
  • 46: A meeting in 1940 at which Navajo Tribal Delegate Scott Preston is explaining the government's stock reduction program to people from the Western Tonalea area
  • 47: An overflow crowd of Navajo listening to the proceedings of the Tribal Council transmitted by loudspeaker, Window Rock, Arizona, 1938
  • 48-50: Navajo Tribal Council in session in Window Rock, 1941
  • 51: Navajo Tribal Council of 1942 casts a customary standing vote. Jake Morgan is Chair. Paul Jones, who later became Chair, is counting
  • 52: Probably a Navajo Tribal Council meeting at Window Rock in the 1950s
  • 53: The winning side of a tug-of-war at the Navajo Tribal Fair in 1939
  • 54-55: Unidentified Navajo man
  • 56-58: Unidentified dam site
1 3
Program: "That Awesome Space"
  • In conjunction with the Institute of the American West, KBGL-TV (Pocatello), produced a one hour video documentary on human interaction with the landscape of the Intermountain West. Photos are mostly landscapes, with many showing the filming of the landscape. Most photos were unidentified
  • 59: Program poster
  • 60-62: Paintings and sketches. Etchings, Engravings, and Drawings
  • 63: Unidentified city
  • 64: Helena, Montana, 1890
  • 65: Pheonix, Arizona
  • 66: Prescott, Arizona Territory
  • 67-68: Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 69-70: Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 71: 1849 sketch by Calhoun suggesting localities for Indian agencies
  • 72-73: Wood River Valley with Hailey in the foreground, 1884
  • 74-75: Unidentified drawings of towns. Landscape
  • 76-79: Kennecott Copper smelter viewed from Great Salt Lake ponds
  • 80: Delicate Arch, Arches National Park
  • 81-95: Unidentified landscape
  • 96-97: Deadhorse Point, Canyonlands National Park
  • 98: Yaki Point, Grand Canyon
  • 99-107: Unidentified landscape
  • 108: Satellite photo of Intermountain West
  • 109-12: Unidentified Indian structures and ruins
  • 113-14: Aztec ruins, New Mexico
  • 115: Unidentified structure
  • 116-122: Unidentified pictographs
  • 123: Pot fragment
  • 124-137: Painting on interior of unidentified Catholic church
  • 138: Exterior of unidentified church
  • 139: Street of unidentified town. Includes sign, "Apache Detective Agency"
1 4
Farming and Ranching Photographs
  • Historical photographs of horse-drawn threshers, irrigation, etc. These may have been used in connection with the "Future of Agriculture in the Rocky Mountains" (F.A.R.M.) program, folder 5
1 5
Program: "Future of Agriculture in the Rocky Mountains"
  • Photographs of the advertising poster and of the participants of the program
  • 165: Poster
  • 165a: Bob Allred
  • 165b: Bob Allred and Randall Morgan
  • 165c-e: Leonard Arrington
  • 165f-g: Thaddis W. Box
  • 165h: James Bruce
  • 165i: Rupert Cutler
  • 165j: Mr. Fergesen
  • 165k: Isao Fujimoto
  • 165l-n: Clancy C. Gordon
  • 165o-p: Drummond Hadley
  • 165q: Mr. Higginson
  • 165r-s: Alven M. Josephy
  • 165t: David LeRoy
  • 165u: Randall Morgan
  • 165v: Neil Sampson
  • 165w: Ms. Smith
  • 165x-y: K. Ross Toole
  • 165z: Mr. Trueblood
  • 165aa-b: Gary Wicks
  • 165ac-e: Unidentified speakers
  • 165af: Higginson, Box, Jones, Cutler, Trueblood
  • 165ag: Fergesen, Jones, Trueblood, Fujimoto
  • 165ah: Smith, Arrington, Hadley, Allred
  • 165ai: LeRoy, Peavey, Wicks, Box
  • 165aj: Wicks, Josephy, Peavey, Box
  • 165ak: Josephy, Peavey, Higginson, Gordon
  • 165al: Sampson, Cutler, Box, Trueblood
  • 165am-n: Farmers and ranchers discuss options for action at conference
  • 165ao: Bill Bryan leads worksho
  • 165ap: Rupert Cutler with others
  • 165aq: Drummond Hadley and Lou Cannon of the Washington Post
1 6
Program: "Indian Self-Rule"
  • For negatives see proof sheets in Box 2
  • 166: Roger Buffalohead
  • 167: Russel Jim
  • 168-169: Philleo Nash
  • 170: Benjamin Reifel
  • 171: Reifel, Nash, and others
  • 172-173: Unidentified
  • 174: Rupert Costo and Jeanette Henry
  • 175: Philip (Sam) Deloria
  • 176: Russel Jim
  • 177-181: Unidentified
  • 182-188: Slide
1 7
Program: "Inventing the West"
  • 189: Poster (oversize negative only)
  • 190: Street in Ketchum, Idaho with banner announcing program. Book plates, engravings, and lithographs
  • 191: Satirical drawing of the scene of the Mountain Meadow Massacre
  • 192: Title page from Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, no. 11, "Old Grizzly Adams," by Dr. Frank Powell
  • 193: "Across the Continent. Westward the course of empire takes its way,"
  • 194: "Entrance of Santa Fe River to the valley of Rio Grande, near Pena Blanca," Lossing and Barritt
  • 195: "Plano Geographico, de la tierra descubierta, nueba mente, a los Rumbos Norte Noroesta y Oesta, del Nuebo Mexico..."
  • 196: "Mojave Ratt," Roberts
  • 197: "Camp scene in the Mojave Valley of Rio Colorado," Lieutenant J.C. Tidball
  • 198: "Artillery Peak," W. Roberts
  • 199: "Despair," Spiegle
  • 200: "Tontos," J.W. Orr
  • 201: "Akaninili ready for the journey"
  • 202: "Fig. 54. Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow. Dancer swallowing' the great plumed arrow"
  • 203: "Wolves on the Trail," from Mayne Reid, Adventures Among the Indians
  • 204: "Besieged by Peccaries," from Mayne Reid, The Desert Home
  • 205: "Basil and the Bison Bull," from Mayne Reid, The Young Voyagers
  • 206: "The Toughest Struggle of My Life," from Mayne Reid, Adventures Among the Indians
  • 207: "Stir a Finger and I Spur On," Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman
  • 208: "No Ye Don't," from Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman
  • 209: "Indian altar and ruins of old Zuni," H.E. Mollhausen
  • 210: "Rock Mary," Roberts
  • 211: "A mountain trapper," Alfred Jacob Miller
  • 212: "Products of the textile art"
  • 213: "Fire dance," H.H. Nichols
  • 214: "Dance of Nahikai," H.H. Nichols
  • 215: "Use of wampum belts in Indian Council," facsimile plate in Lafitau
  • 216: "A mound," from De Bry
  • 217: "Amerigo Vespucci encounters America" depicted as an Indian woman in a sixteenth-century engraving
  • 218: "Honkeytonk Sue," a cartoon character drawn by Bob "Boze" Bell
  • 219: "Gathering to Zion"-life on the plains
  • 220: "Navajos," H.B. Mollhausen
  • 220a: "Over at Last"
  • 221-30: Unidentified engravings
  • 231: La Grange Mine crew
  • 232: Unidentified photo of a man and two boys walking towards a cabin
  • 233-34: Vera McGinnis, bronc and trick rider and jockey, roping the mayor of Riverside, California, 1924
  • 235: Movie still of Terence Hill and Stewart Granger in "Flaming Frontier"
  • 236: still of Terence Hill, Stewart Granger in "Frontier Hellcat"
  • 237: Maurice Chevalier and William A. Harte
  • 238: Mr. Billington
  • 239: Mr. Evans
1 8
Program: "The American West: Colonies in Revolt"
  • Photograph number Unidentified program attendants/speakers. See proof sheets in Box 2
1 9
Program: "Western Movies: Myths and Images"
  • For negatives, see Walkup/Fryer proof sheets in Box 2
  • 282-283: Program poster
  • 284: Chief Dan George, Clint Eastwood, and an unidentified man
  • 285: Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
  • 286-288: Movie stills from "Heartland"
  • 289: Movie still from "Next Year Country"
  • 290-292: Movie stills from "Northern Lights"
  • 293-298: Movie stills from "Three Warriors"
1 10-11
Program: "The Writer and the West"
  • For negatives, see proof sheets in Box 2
  • 299-300: Program posters
  • 301-304: Coyote
  • 305-306: Mr. Crumley
  • 307-308: John E. Echohawk
  • 309-310: Sy Gomberg
  • 311-314: Richard Hugo
  • 315-316: Alven M. Josephy
  • 317-318: Grace Lichtenstein
  • 319-323: Frederick Manfred
  • 324-327: Carey Williams
  • 328: Shirley Hill Witt
  • 329: Witt, Echohawk, and Josephy
  • 330: Manfred, Witt, Echohawk, Josephy, and Coyote
  • 331: McWilliams, Josephy, Crumley, and others
  • 332-333: Echohawk and Lichtenstein
  • 334-335: Witt and Echohawk
  • 336-337: Coyote, Crumley, and Floyd O'Neil
  • 338-339: McWilliams and Manfred
  • 340: Lichtenstein and others
  • 341: Coyote and Gomberg
  • 342: Josephy and Manfred
  • 343: Manfred and others
  • 344: Floyd O'Neil and others
  • 345: Josephy and others
  • 346-355: Unidentified program participants

Proof Sheets, Unidentified Events, MiscellaneousReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Contemporary Issues Forum
  • 356: Louise Dunlap, President of the Environmental Policy Center
  • 357: Henry Patton, Chairman of the Board, GeoKinetics
1982
2 2
Unidentified conference
  • 358-361: Unidentified people
  • 361a-b: Alven M. Josephy
2 3
Unidentified Music Festival
  • 362-376: Unidentified
  • 377: Bryan Bowers
  • 378: James Bryan, Nancy Blake, and Norman Blake
  • 379: Alex de Grassi
2 4
Graphics Shop
  • Photos of the personnel of the Institute's graphics shop at work, and also of the works themselves. For negatives, see proof sheets in Box 2
2 5
Miscellaneous
  • 411: Looking Glass mounted on a painted war horse
  • 412: Geronimo and his warriors before the surrender to General Crook on March 27, 1886
  • 413: "The end of the frontier." Geronimo and friends, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in latest model Buick, circa 1905
  • 414: "A good catch." Trappers with furs and traps
  • 415: Sketch of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation
  • 416: The Emancipation Proclamation with Lincoln's portrait
  • 417: Lincoln in late 1863
  • 418: Cartoon of Woodrow Wilson: "Grasping at Straws"
  • 419: Woodrow Wilson on his 65th birthday, December 29, 1921
  • 420: Charles Lindbergh just before take-off for Paris, on May 20, 1927, 7:45 AM New York time
  • 421: W.E.B. Du Bois in 1947
  • 422: Martin Luther King with a group of black anti-segregation picketers in St. Augustine, Florida, June 10, 1964
  • 423: Two cowgirls feeding a horse
  • 424: Cowgirl riding a bull in a rodeo
  • 425: Cowboy herding cattle
  • 427: Woman holding baby in a cowboy hat
  • 428: Two old cowboys
  • 429: Japanese woman holding a child
  • 430-433: Construction of a road and a well
  • 434: Unidentified American Indian
  • 435-437: Unidentified man
  • 437a: Unidentified building development drawing
2 6
Proof Sheets: Walkup and Fryer Photos
  • Please note that these sheets and their corresponding negatives include additional Walkup and Fryer photos of which prints were never made. There are also some of the movie stills from the Western Movies folder on sheet No.440
2 7
Proof Sheets: Indian Self-Rule Photos
2 8
Proof Sheets: Colonies in Revolt
2 9
Proof Sheets: The Writer and the West
2 10
Proof Sheets: Miscellaneous
  • 476-477: Program: "Parks in the West" (proofs and negatives only)
  • 478-481: Unidentified conference
  • 482-484: Unidentified music festival
2 11
Proof Sheets: Graphics Shop

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Indians of North America--History--Photographs
  • Navajo Indians--History--Photographs

Geographical Names

  • West (U.S.)--History--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Group portraits--1850-1964
  • Photographic prints--1850-1964
  • Portrait photographs--1850-1964