American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

4 cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts, each lacking a studio imprint but taken by William Soule, Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Scenes include: Outdoor view of a Cheyenne encampment near Fort Dodge or Camp supply, verso with period inscription, "Cheyenne Indians. Lodges etc. Buffalo meat drying on the poles for winter use." The man shown to the left of the three Cheyenne Indians is Horace P. Jones, an interpreter at Fort Sill. -- 2 studio portraits of Southern Cheyenne Chief Whirlwind, each with period identification in lower margin of mount recto, one also including an applied paper label with printed identification, "Ma-nim-mie." One view with verso notation identifying Whirlwind as a "war chief" and "head chief at present," dated 1872. Each with pasted label on verso from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts. -- Studio portrait of Southern Cheyenne Chief Whirlwind's daughters, verso with period identification and pasted label from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies."

Together, 4 cabinet photographs.