| 1 | Creator: | Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Speck-Choate Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1879-1881 | | | | Abstract: | The United States Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., was founded by Gen. Richard Henry Pratt in 1879, and served as a model for government boarding schools for Indians until its closure in 1918. Over 10,000 students enrolled at the Carlisle Training School during its 39 years, where, separated from their native cultures, the students were prepared for work in industrial and manual labor and socialized into "civilized" life. Given new white names to replace their Indian ones, the students were prohibited from speaking their native languages, were instructed in Christianity, and were fed, clothed, and housed under strict military discipline.
The 27 photographs in the Speck-Choate Photograph Collection were taken by J. N. Choate, a local commercial photographer in Carlisle, Pa., and collected by the anthropologist Frank G. Speck. Choate advertised "Photographs of all the Indian Chiefs that have visited the Indian Training School at Carlisle Barracks, also of children in native and school costumes" and were intended to document the benefits of civilization that the school brought to Indians. Typical images include "before and after" shots of students in native dress and school uniforms, the school band, and shots of the students at work in the saddle shop and making shoes. Choate also took a number of images of visiting chiefs in traditional dress, including the Lakota chief Spotted Tail, and the Cheyennes Man on Cloud and Mad Wolf. One photograph depicts Richard Henry Pratt seated with Quaker supporters. Among the tribes represented are the Lakota, Laguna, Cheyenne, Creek, Lipan, and Pueblo. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sp3c | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Boudoir card photographs | Cabinet card photographs | Cheyenne Indians--Photographs | Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902 | Creek Indians--Photographs | Dakota Indians--Photographs | Ethnographic photography | Indians of North America--Photographs | Laguna Indians--Photographs | Lipan Indians--Photographs | Mad Wolf, Cheyenne Chief | Man on Cloud, Cheyenne Chief | Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924 | Pueblo Indians--Photographs | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Spotted Tail, Brule Sioux Chief, 1823-1881 | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Photographs | White Buffalo, Cheyenne Chief | |
| 2 | Creator: | Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1859-1882 | | | | Abstract: | A traveler, archaeologist, and photographer, Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) was one of the most important early expeditionary photographers. During his tours of Yucatan, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886, Charnay became one of the first to use photography in documenting the great Meso-American archaeological sites and to make ethnographic photographs of indigenous Mexicans. His major publications
Cités et Ruines Américaines (Paris, 1862) and
Les Anciennes Villes du Nouveau Monde (Paris, 1885) are important transitional works to the later scientific archaeology of Alfred Maudslay.
The collection of photographs taken by Desire Charnay are representative of the range of images he took of Meso-American archaeological sites during three tours of Mexico in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886. Although some of the images have suffered an unfortunate degree of fading, they convey the power and fascination that these sites held for Charnay and his contemporaries, and include some of the best early examples of the use of photography in the documentation of Mexican archaeology. The collection includes 123 images of the sites at Tula, Teotihuacan, Iztaccihuatl, Chichen Itza, Comalcalco, and Palenque, of archaeological specimens held at the Museum of Mexico, and of landscape and villages in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Oaxaca, as well as a series of Lacandon, Mayan, Mixtec, and Yucatec "racial types." | | | | Call #: | Mss.913.72.Ab23 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927 | Albumen prints | Archaeology--Mexico--Photographs | Carte de visite photographs | Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Chichen Itza Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Comalcalco Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Ethnographic photography | Indians of Mexico--Photographs | Kabah Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Lacandon Indians--Photographs | Madeira (Madeira Islands)--Photographs | Maya Indians--Photographs | Mexico--Antiquities--Photographs | Mitla Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Mixtec Indians--Photographs | Museo Nacional de Mexico--Photographs | Oaxaca (Mexico)--Antiquities--Photographs | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)--Photographs | Photographs | Southwest Indians | Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico)--Photographs | Toltecs--Antiquities--Photographs | Tula Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico)--Photographs | Uxmal Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Yucatan (Mexico)--Antiquities--Photographs | |
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