Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
PC 83
Nez Perce Photographs
circa 1877-1905
0.5 Linear feet of shelf space
1 Box
A composite collection made up of six separate auction
lots containing original photographic prints and one glass-plate negative, most
photographs depict various members of the Nez Perce tribe in studio poses with some
outdoor images.
Collection materials are in English
A composite collection made up of six separate auction lots containing 75 original
photographic prints and one glass-plate negative. Folders 1 and 2 include 16 gelatin
and silver print cabinet cards, on C. W. Hanson and J. A. Hanson studio mounts. Each
photograph depicts members of the Nez Perce tribe in various studio settings.
Folders 3 and 4 contain 45 gelatin and silver print cabinet cards, on E. G. Cummings
studio mounts. These images, taken in the studio and outdoors, depict various Nez
Perce Indians. An 8x10 glass-plate negative (folder 5), copyrighted by F.T. Cummins
in 1903, of Chief Joseph shows him seated in with another man in Western dress. Two
prints made from the negative may be found in folder 6. A bust-length portrait of
Chief Joseph (folder 7) is printed on the verso with O. S. Goff and D. T. Bismarck.
Eight bromide prints (folder 8) by Dr. Edward H. Latham were taken at Nespelem, WA
ca. 1900-1905. The final two 7x9 mounted albumen prints (folder 9) were believed at
purchase to be the St. Joseph Mission Nez Perce School, but were identified in 2011
as the St. Francis Xavier Mission and Indian School in St. Xavier, Montana (Crow
Reservation).
All items in this collection were digitized in 2011, and can be found in our
Nez Perce Photographs Digital Collection.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Nez Perce Photographs, circa 1877-1905 (PC 83)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection of Nez Perce Photographs comprises six lots (197, 198,
199A, 202, 203, and 210) purchased at auction. Swann Galleries, Sale 1513,
Thursday, 1989 November 19.
Frank S. Matsura Photographs, 1907-1913 (PC 35)
Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs, circa 1868-1950 (PC 85)
Cull A. White Photographs and Negatives, 1861-1950 (PC 86)
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Joseph (Nez Perce Chief), 1840-1904 -- Portraits
Nez Perce Indians
Indians of North America -- Idaho
Native Americans
Photographs
Idaho
C.W. Hanson cabinet cards depicting Nez Perce in studio
settings
1
1
Jane Davis
1
2
Unidentified Nez Perce woman and child
1
3
Matilda Thunder and sister
1
4
Unidentified Nez Perce man in western
clothing
1
5
Yum Lumkin
1
6
Nez Perce man (probably John Moss)
1
7
Unidentified Nez Perce man
1
8
Nez Perce woman and child (child appears to be
hydrocephalic)
J.A. Hanson - Elite Studio Grangeville and Stuart
(Kooksia), Idaho
2
1
Nez Perce Family portrait
2
2
Two Indian women and child, 1890
2
3
Mr. William Parson's, Kamiah, Idaho
2
4
Josiah Redwolf and Francis Rabain Redwolf
2
5
Henry Enos (Ma sham key low nee)
2
6
Sophia Broncheau and child
2
7
Julia Newton Gould
2
8
Kho sa Lot (?) - various names and relations on back
of card
E.G. Cummings cabinet cards depicting Nez Perce
(identified)
3
1
Delia Davis
3
2
Nez Perce family - Nathan White, Sarah White, Charley
White and James White
3
3
Wilson Davis
3
4
Two unidentified Nez Perce men
3
5
Benjamin Five Crows and family (Nez Perce)
3
6
Norton Blackeagle
3
7
J.W. Fenderson
3
8
Norton Blackeagle and unidentified Nez Perce
man
3
9
Annie Monteith, Maggie Jackson, and Lewis
Williams
3
10
Three Nez Perce women
Negative 90-014
3
11
Elias Stevens and Martha Rueben, of Lapwai,
Idaho
3
12
William Axtell
3
13
Two young Nez Perce men (one of them probably William
Light)
3
14
Fred Lowery
3
15
Priscilla Frank
3
16
Dick Paul
3
17
John Hill
3
18
Jesse Michael LaBrunn and family
E.G. Cummings cabinet cards depicting Nez Perce
(unidentified) in studio settings
4
1
Nez Perce woman with two woven cornhusk
bags
4
2
Nez Perce woman and man
4
3
Nez Perce woman
4
4
Nez Perce woman with woven cornhusk bag
4
5
Nez Perce man
4
6
Two Nez Perce men
4
7
Nez Perce man
4
8
Nez Perce man and woman
4
9
Nez Perce woman and baby
4
10
Nez Perce man
4
11
Nez Perce woman
4
12
Young Nez Perce girl and baby
4
13
Nez Perce woman and baby
4
14
Nez Perce man in military uniform
4
15
Nez Perce man
4
16
Young Nez Perce man
4
17
Nez Perce family portrait
4
18
Two Nez Perce women and a young girl
4
19
Two young Nez Perce women
4
20
Three Nez Perce women
4
21
Three Nez Perce women
4
22
Two Nez Perce women
4
23
Two Nez Perce women with woven cornhusk
bags
4
24
Nez Perce woman and man
4
25
Nez Perce woman and man
4
26
Young Nez Perce woman
4
27
Nez Perce woman
5
1
Glass plate negative of Chief Joseph seated in the
photographers studio. Another man in western dress (possibly Colonel Frederick T.
Cummins) is seated beside him.
1903
6
1
Two prints from glass plate negative of Chief Joseph
(copyright F.T. Cummins, 1903). Chief Joseph seated in the photographers studio. Another
man in western dress seated beside him.
1903
7
1
Portrait of Chief Joseph, 1877. Photo by O.S. Goff
Bismark, D.T.
1877
Dr. Edward H. Latham, photographs taken at Nespelem,
Washington
(eight bromide prints)
8
1
Nez Perce woman on horseback
1900
Negative 96-050
8
2
Professor Edmund S. Meany at the monument at Chief
Joseph's grave
June 20, 1905
8
3
Yellow Bull at Chief Joseph's funeral
8
4
Peo Peo Tholekt at Chief Joseph's funeral
8
5
Peo Peo Mox Mox at Chief Joseph's funeral
8
6
Professor Edmund S. Meany at the monument at Chief
Joseph's grave
June 20, 1905
8
7
Chief Joseph in war regalia at Nespelem
Creek
1903
Negative 90-069.
8
8
Columbia woman on horseback with
cradleboard
1900
Saint Francis Xavier Mission and Indian School in St.
Xavier, Montana
(2 mounted prints)
9
1
St. Francis Xavier Mission and Indian School in St.
Xavier, Montana (Crow Reservation)
9
2
St. Francis Xavier Mission and Indian School in St.
Xavier, Montana (Crow Reservation), showing students