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William S. Hart Paramount Studio Portrait
Perhaps attracted by the theatrics of Wild West shows, the early film industry enthusiastically embraced the Western genre. William S. Hart (1870-1946) was a Shakespearian stage actor who became a celebrity of Westerns in the silent film era,…
Ute Teepee, Los Pios Agency, Colorado
In Mesa, Canon, and Pueblo, Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) described the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest as "peaceable and industrious, quiet farmers by profession, as they were when the world first found them." Lummis clearly intended to…
Twin Lake, Big Cottonwood Canon, Utah
After Hayden's survey ended in 1879, Jackson established his own studio in Denver. Ever attuned to consumer demands, he specialized in portraiture and landscape photography. Jackson hired others to handle the portraits, but photographed the region…
Stevens' Hydraulic Mines near Oro City, Colorado
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…
Reno Ford of the Little Bighorn with Vignette Inset of Captain Frederick Benteen and Reno's Crossing with Vignette Inset of Major Marcus Reno, Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana
On June 25, 1876, General George A. Custer led the Seventh Calvary into battle against Sioux and Cheyenne Indians along the Little Bighorn River in Montana. The utter defeat of Custer and his men at "Custer's Last Stand" is one of the defining…
Portrait of Bick Juna, Zuni Man
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…
Portrait of "Clear," a Sioux Indian
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…
Palisades, Humboldt River, C.P.R.R., Nevada,
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…
Mt. Hood from near Vancouver, Washington
Watkins achieved critical acclaim but had difficulty selling his photographs and often found himself unable to fund his photographic excursions. With a loan from American geologist J. D. Whitney (1819-1896), Watkins set out from California in 1867 to…
Modern American Harvesting in the Great Western Wheat Fields. Combine Harvester, Cutting, Threshing, and Sacking, Walla Walla, Washington; Evolution of the Sickle and Flail. 33 Horse Harvester at Walla Walla, Washington
Walla Walla is situated between the Snake and Columbia Rivers in eastern Washington State. The text on the verso of "Evolution of the Sickle and Flail" emphasizes the limitless possibilities of farming on a "grand, western scale" and compares the…