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O'Sullivan took the photograph displayed here during Lt. George M. Wheeler's (1842-1905) 1873 survey of eastern Nevada and Arizona. Wheeler twice described O'Sullivan's domestic image, once in 1874 and again in 1889, and his remarks reflect the…

Many U.S. treaties with American Indians included promises of food and clothing because the tribes were often prohibited from entering their traditional hunting grounds. This photograph shows members of the Sioux Nation collecting beef rations at an…

Coastal northern Oregon was the traditional territory of the Siletz Indians. In 1856, the U.S. government forced the Siletz to absorb at least twelve other Oregon tribes on the reservation created from their homeland. Within just fifty years, the…

More than five hundred American Indians from thirty-five tribes attended the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska. American ethnographer James Mooney (1868-1921) of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology hired Omaha native…

In 1901, Seattle photographer Curtis conceived the most ambitious photographic project to document the lives and customs of American Indians, whom he called the "vanishing race." He received funding in 1906 from American banker J. Pierpont Morgan…

Tuell was a self-taught photographer who lived with her schoolteacher husband on Cheyenne and Sioux reservations in Montana and South Dakota. She taught home economics at reservation schools and in her spare time documented the social customs and…

Savage successfully operated a photography studio in Salt Lake City by balancing the demand for portraiture with his artistic preference for landscape photography. Savage's landscape work rivaled that of his friends Carleton E. Watkins, William Henry…

Russell, chief photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad, made one of the famous photographs of the ceremony joining the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. Following that event, Russell took an…

Georgetown, Colorado, about fifty miles west of Denver, was established in 1864 as a result of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush (1858-1859). From a settlement consisting of four cabins and a few tents, the "Silver Queen of the Rockies" quickly became the…

Students were responsible for planning the College of New Jersey's first geological survey to the American West in 1877. The highly organized affair led to many discoveries and publications in the fields of paleontology and topography. The students…