American Historical Ephemera & Photography

FLANDERS & PENELON, photographers. Chiefs at Verde Reservation. Arizona: [Spring 1874]. 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. stereoview on cardstock mount (toning and soiling to prints, with significant vertical crease extending  between prints and affecting mount; wear to mount edges and corners). Image titled and numbered in ink on mount recto: "Chiefs at Verde Reservation / 32." Image also numbered in the negative, lower right. Verso bears Flanders & Penelon imprint. Tonto and Yavapai Apache subjects pose in rows for the camera, while numerous other subjects sit and stand near a wickiup visible in the background. 

Likely taken in the spring of 1874. An alternate title listed for this view in Flanders' series is "Squaws at Verde Reservation."

[With:] Muster Day, at San Carlos Reservation. Arizona: [Summer 1874]. 6 x 3 5/8 in. stereoview on cardstock mount (toning and some spotting to print; corner and edge wear to mount). Flanders' imprint and series title, "Scenes in Arizona" featured on mount recto. Image number and title printed on applied paper label below image: "94. Muster Day, at San Carlos Reservation." A large crowd of Native American subjects are pictured sitting on the ground awaiting the distribution of rations at San Carlos. Tribes represented include Mohave, Yuma, and Apache bands (Arivaioa, Chiricahua, Coyoterto, Mimbreno, Mogollon, Pinaleno, San Carlos, Tonto, and Tsiiladen). Likely taken July - August, 1874.
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Dudley P. Flanders, based in Los Angeles, visited Arizona Territory for about ten months between December, 1873 and October, 1874. Jeremy Rowe has meticulously documented Flanders' trip and compiled a list of all known negatives (see Vintagephoto.com).