UUS_P0474.xml Guide to the Baker and Johnston photograph collection, 1881-1882 Baker and Johnston photograph collection, 1881-1882 Finding aid/Register created by Jessy Swift Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2012
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Purchased from Cowan's Historic Americana in 2011, with later additions (images 19-21) purchased from Buckingham Books in 2020.

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Initial Citation: USU_P0474; Baker and Johnston photograph collection; Photograph Collections Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0474, USUSCA.

Charles S. Baker and Eli Johnston owned a photography studio in Evanston, Wyoming called Baker & Johnston Photographic Studio. Baker was a member of the Masonic Lodge and never married. They are best known for a series of 93 photographs, "List of Indian Pictures," taken in the 1880s of the Shoshone, Arapahoe, and Apache Indians.

The Shoshone tribe permanently located to the Wind River Reservation near present day Fort Washakie in 1868. The Arapahoe were moved onto the reservation (without permission from the Shoshone) in 1878. This reservation has been diminished in size down through the years, but it still serves as a reservation for the Shoshone and Arapahoe nations. Evanston is along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad and is about four hours southwest of the reservation.

Libraries and archives collect and preserve a broad spectrum of material. Some materials in the USU Libraries' collections contain sensitive or harmful content. This collection has been identified as having such content. You may submit feedback on such content here. For USU Libraries' full statement on sensitive or harmful, content, please visit this page. The Baker and Johnston photograph collection consists of 22 cabinet card images mainly of Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians, some in tribal dress, probably taken in their Evanston, Wyoming studio in the 1880s. Included are images of Arapahoe Chief Sharp Nose, Painting Horse, Oiti, Pappagoit and the Shoshone Chief Washakie. Several of the cabinet cards do not include an index of the photographs contained in the "List of Indian Pictures," series. Because of similarities in content and printing, however, they are assumed to be taken by Baker and Johnston, or as noted, contemporaries.

Shoshone Indian portrait collection, P0292

 Anthropology Arapaho Indians--Portraits Shoshone Indians--Portraits Indians of North America--Portraits Landscape photography--Wyoming--Photographs Images Cabinet cards Studio portraits "Windeah" a Shoshone Indian. He is in traditional dress seated on a log holding a revolver looking to the right 01 1881-1882 1 1 "Shoshone Sun Dance Costume" worn by an unidentified man who is holding a feathered stick in left hand 02 1881-1882 1 1 "Naroce—Shoshone warrior with tomahawk". He is looking to the left and is in traditional dress 03 1881-1882 1 1 "Oiti and Pappagoit". The image is of three men seated on horses in a creek. The man in the middle is probably Chief Washakie 04 1881-1882 1 1 Two unidentified Arapahoe men, both wearing traditional jewelry but modern clothing and hats. The man on the right is holding a feather 05 1881-1882 1 1 "Sharp Nose. War Chief of the Arapahoe Indians". In a military jacket 06 1881-1882 1 1 "Sharp Nose", the Arapahoe war chief in a military jacket 07 1881-1882 1 1 "Young Calf" an Arapahoe Man. In traditional dress, including a traditional feathered headdress, sitting on a rock turned to the right holding a revolver in his right hand. Handwriting on the back identifies the revolver as "Gun—Colt—Carey Cartridge—[illegible]" 08 1881-1882 1 1 "Arapahoe". An unidentified portrait of an Arapahoe man wearing a belt with shell casings looking to the right 09 1881-1882 1 1 "Taboonggwesha" an Arapahoe Man. Wearing traditional jewelry 10 1881-1882 1 1 "Painting Horse" an Arapahoe Man. Wearing traditional dress, including a feathered headdress, and is seated on furs holding a revolver in his right hand 11 1881-1882 1 2 "Painting Horse." Standing with his right leg on a log holding a revolver in right hand, looking off to the right, wearing a belt made of shell casings and is also wearing a traditional feathered headdress 12 1881-1882 1 2 "Buffalo Wallow" an Arapahoe Man. Standing with his right leg on a log turned to and looking at the left. He is also in a feathered headdress, holding a revolver in right hand and a shell casing belt 13 1881-1882 1 2 "Bad Lands" A rock formation with a man in the center of the background. Possibly near Lyman, Wyoming 14 1881-1882 1 2

Stereoview, photographer unknown

 Chief Washakie with Shoshone Chiefs 15 1881-1882 1 2 Arapahoe Children in School 16 1881-1882 1 2 Chief Washakie (standing) and Shoshone Chiefs (sitting) 17 1881-1882 1 2 Shoshone woman with baby - "Shoshone Squaw carrying papoose." 18 1881-1882 1 2

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 Chief Washakie, seated 19 1881-1882 1 2 Chief Washakie standing in front of an open tepee with a small child seated near the tepee 20 1881-1882 1 2 Chief Wasakie standing with a group of Indians in front of four tepees 21 1881-1882 1 2

A tiny ink star exists above Chief Wasakie, presumably for purposes of easy identification.

 Unidentified Indian 22 1881-1882 1 2

Shorey Photographer, with note on verso: "Photo donated by Mrs. Frances Janes Masterson"