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Author/Creator:Cross, W. R. (William R.), photographer.
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Title:[Photographs of Lakota Indians, Oglala Indians, and views of South Dakota and Nebraska].
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Production:[Nebraska and South Dakota], [approximately 1871-1907]
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Physical Description:24 photographic prints : b & w ; 20.4 x 12.8 cm. on mounts 21.6 x 13.4 cm and smaller.
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Links:View digital images from the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
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Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
Captions and image numbers in negatives.
Advertisement on verso of most mounts for W. R. Cross, Portrait and View Photographer.
Advertisement on verso of one mount for L. W. Stillwell, Indian Relics.
Label from L. W. Stillwell Minerals, Fossils and Indian Relics affixed on verso of some mounts.
Captions in English.
Source unknown for seventeen photographs. Seven photographs purchased from Barney Chapman on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2010.
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Biographical / Historical note:W illiam Richard Cross (1839-1907) was a photographer in Nebraska and South Dakota. he owned galleries in Nebraska including Creighton (1871-1878) and Niobrara (1878-1890) as well as Hot Springs, South Dakota (1890-1907).
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Summary:Photographs chiefly of Lakota Indians and Oglala Indians and views at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and sites in South Dakota and Nebraska, approximately 1871-1907.
Photographs of American Indians in South Dakota include Lakota Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the United States Army Cavalry, 7th Regiment, in January 1891. Images also document Omaha Indians at the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Individual portraits of American Indians alone and with others include war chief Gall, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, and a Yankton Sioux woman with a child, as well as Indian scouts with their commanding officer, Lieutenant Charles W. Taylor, and portraits of Sitting Bull, including a photograph with Buffalo Bill. Images of Indian police at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, include the chief of police George Sword with American Indian performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company.
Photographs of South Dakota include Fort Meade and sites along the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad, including a smelter in Deadwood and the arrival in Hot Springs of members of the National Association of Railway Surgeons in June 1893. A photograph also documents a sod house in Nebraska.
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Cite as:W. R. Cross, Photographs of Lakota Indians, Oglala Indians, and Views of South Dakota and Nebraska. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Portraits.
Cross, W. R. (William R.)
Gall, approximately 1840-1894--Portraits.
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890--Portraits.
Stilwell, Lucien W., 1843-1932.
Sword, George, approximately 1846-1910--Portraits.
Taylor, Charles William, 1856-1939--Portraits.
Young Man Afraid of His Horse, approximately 1830-1900.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company--Pictorial works.
Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad--Pictorial works.
National Association of Railway Surgeons (U.S.)--Pictorial works.
United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th.--Pictorial works.
Indian reservation police--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Indian reservations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--Pictorial works.
Indian reservations--South Dakota--Rosebud--Pictorial works.
Indian scouts--Portraits.
Indians of North America--Pictorial works.
Indians of North America--Portraits.
Indians of North America--South Dakota.
Lakota Indians--Pictorial works.
Oglala Indians--Portraits.
Omaha Indians--Portraits.
Yankton Indians--Portraits.
Deadwood (S.D.)--Pictorial works.
Fort Meade (S.D.)--Pictorial works.
Hot Springs (S.D.)--Pictorial works.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works.
Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works.
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Genre/Form:Card photographs (photographs)
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
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Also listed under:Stilwell, Lucien W., 1843-1932, distributor.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3786157