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The APS holds a substantial number of collections containing Native American images. These collections include candid observations as well as formal portraits. These images may be viewed in their entirety or by the collection from which they are drawn.

In addition to the collections enumerated below, see also material related to Native Americans housed in the Anthropology, Broadsides, Eugenics,  Lewis and Clark, and Natural History Collections.

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• A comparative study of Aztec hieroglyphs (Mss. 497.4 W65)
   
• Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection (Mss. 913.72 Ab23)
   
• Ancient Mexican material culture as revealed in Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus (Mss.913.72. Wi649)
   
• American Philosophical Society Archives (APS Archives)
   
• APS Print Collection (APS Print Collection)
  
  
• Franz Boas Papers (Mss. B B61)
   
• Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (Mss. 497.3 B63c)
   
• Franz Boas Professional Papers (Mss. B B61p)
   
• Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports (505 C11)
   
• Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages, 1802-1808 (Mss.497.J35)
   
• Crania Americana; or, a comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America (573.7 M84c)
   
• James M. Crawford Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 66)
   
• Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss. Ms. Coll. 77)
   
• Ephraim Dyer IV collection, ca. 1842, of the sketches of Sherman Day (Mss. 917.48 D33)
   
• Etats-Unis d'Amerique (Mss. 917.3 R76)
   
• William N. Fenton Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 20)
   
• Simon Flexner Papers (Mss. B F365)
   
• Mary Rosamond Haas papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 94)
   
• Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 26)
   
• H. O. Hanson, Photograph Collection (Mss. B H198)
   
• Victor (Victor George) Heiser Papers (Mss. B H357.p)
   
• Historia de Nueva Espanna (972 C81)
   
• Histoire de la conquete de la Floride (975.9 V52)
   
• Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States (970.1 Sch6)
   
• History of America and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas and islands of it (917 M766)
   
• History of the Indian tribes of North America (970.1 M19)
   
• E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 43)
   
• Illustrations of the manners, customs and condition of the North American Indians (970.1 C28L.e)
   
• Indian notes and monographs: Goldsmith's art in ancient Mexico (970.1 In25)
   
• Isleta sketches (Mss. 572 P25.1 No.25)
   
• Journey from Prince of Wales's fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean (919.8 H35)
   
• Elisha Kent Kane Papers (Mss. B K132)
   
• League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois (970.1 M82L)
   
• Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
   
• Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 95)
   
• John Alden Mason Papers (Mss. B M384)
   
• Miscellaneous collection on the American Indian (Mss. 497.3 G41)
   
• Miscellaneous Manuscrupts Collection (Mss. Miscellaneous. Manuscripts)
   
• Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss. B M828)
   
• Robert Cushman Murphy Journals (Mss. B M957)
   
• James V. Neel Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 96)
   
• New, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world...Captain Cook's... (910.4 An25n)
   
• New voyages to North America (917 L13n)
   
• De Nieuwe en onbekende Weerelde (917 M76)
   
• Notes of travel made from memoranda in old diaries [1869-1885], 1897-1898 (Mss. B D735)
   
• Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiae occidentalis (917.29 L12)
   
• Ojibwa ethnographic and linguistic field notes (Mss. 497.3 J71)
   
• Papers and drawings for Cherokee materials (Mss. 970.3 W78)
   
• Ely Samuel Parker Papers (Mss. 497.3 P223)
   
• Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 29)
   
• William Parsons material (Mss. B P252)
   
• Titan Ramsey Peale Sketches (Mss. B P31.15d)
   
• Phillips fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss. 497.3 Am4)
   
• Paul Radin Papers (Mss. 497.3 R114)
  
  
• C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss. B R124)
   
• Rubin E. Reina Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 67)
   
• Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians (Mss. 497.3 K965a)
   
• Richard Joel Russell papers (Mss. B R91)
   
• Walter C. Shields Photograph Album (Mss. SMs. Coll.4)
   
• A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection (Mss. 970.1 Sh6)

• Frank T. Siebert Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 97)
   
• Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes (Mss. 917.7 M19)
   
• Snake dance of the Moquis of Arizona (970.3 B66)
   
• George S. Snyderman Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 51)
   
• Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages (Mss. 497.3 P61s)
   
• Speck-Choate Photograph Collection (Mss. B Sp3c)
   
• Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 126)
   
• Elisabeth Tooker Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 84)
   
• Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (917 C25)
   
• Under the midnight sun (Mss. 919.8 D73u)
   
• United States Works Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports (Mss. 913.748 Un3)
   
• Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas (Mss. 913.72 D92v)
   
• C.F. Voegelin Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 68)
   
• Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 64a)
   
• Pamela Wallace Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 130)
   
• Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll 64b)