SIBLEY HOUSE:

An Inventory of Its Photograph Collection at the Minnesota Historical Society

Sound and Visual Collection

OVERVIEW


	Title:	Sibley House photograph collection.
	Dates:	1850-1950.
	Abstract:	The collection consists primarily of views of Native American Indians from the midwestern and western United States, including identified Indian portraits. Minnesota views include Lower Sioux Indian Community, Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, Sibley House in Mendota and an 1860 view of Duluth. Also includes portraits of Henry B. Whipple, Katherine McMillan, Isaac McNair, Jean B. Faribault and Mary Schwandt Schmidt.
	Quantity:	135 photographs: black and white; various sizes and 31 negatives: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
	Location:	III.43: See Detailed Description for item numbers.

OTHER FINDING AIDS

A list of the locator numbers assigned by the Sibley House is attached to the donor record, filed in the Acquisitions and Curatorial Department.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Sibley House Photograph Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Provenance:

This collection was compiled at the Sibley House historic site in Mendota, Minn. and transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society’s Sound & Visual Collections in 2002.

Accession Information:

Accession number: AV2002.169

Processing Information:

Negatives: Copy negatives made by Minnesota Historical Society.

Processed by: Nancy Devine, March 2004.

Catalog ID number: 990028892560104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


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III.43.1	1	Mary Hunt Tomitsk, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white.
			Digital image


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III.43.2	1	Standing Buffalo (Tatanka Nalighin), Chief of the Sissetons, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white; 14.5 x 20 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.3	1	Unidentified Indian male, circa 1865. 1 photograph: black and white.
			Digital image


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III.43.4	1	Little Crow, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.5	1	Anpetu-tokeca (John Other Day), circa 1862. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.6	1	John Other Day, 1862. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.7	1	Cut Nose, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.8	1	Standing Buffalo, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.9	1	Plain Cree family at home, circa 1880. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.10	1	Crow Indian warriors, circa 1880. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.11	1	Crow Indians and crowd at Last Spike ceremonies, 1883. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.12	1	Reverend George W. Johnson, circa 1885. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.13	1	Reverend Charles Wright, circa 1885. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.14	1	Reverend George Morgan, circa 1885. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.15	1	Reverend John Coleman, circa 1885. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.16	1	Reverend George Smith, circa 1885. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.17	1	Young Man Afraid of His Horse, circa 1890. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.18	1	Indian girl with a cat, circa 1895. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.19	1	Sybil Carter with instructors and lace makers at Birch Coulee, circa 1896. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.20	1	Indians women and children in canoe on the Mississippi River, circa 1898. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.21	1	Emma Good Thunder and Janette Crooks working on lace and needlework pieces, circa 1900. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.22	1	Mah-Je-Gob-Bow, circa 1900. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.23	1	Flathead Indian family in front of tipi, circa 1900. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.24	1	Hakah Indian basket maker, circa 1900. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.25	1	Yakima Indian family, circa 1900. 1 photograph: tinted.
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III.43.26	1	Native American male wearing headdress, circa 1910. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.27	1	Native American Indian male, circa 1910. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.28	1	Indian women seated in front of tepee, circa 1910. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.29	1	Flathead Indian family posed in front of their home, Montana, 1910-1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.30	1	Unidentified wooden structure, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.31	1	Man shucking corn, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.32	1	Flathead Indian male, Arlee, Montana, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.33	1	Plenty Coos, Chief of the Crows, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.34	1	Colville Indian Reservation, Washington, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.35	1	Home of a mixed blood Indian, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.36	1	Indian graves, northern Minnesota, 1920-1929. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.37	1	Indian man and woman carrying a birch bark canoe, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.38	1	Joe Hunt Tomitsk and his wife, Klichitat, Washington, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.39	1	Adult Indian and child, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.40	1	Indian village, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.41	1	Indian village, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.42	1	Indian family camped by a lake, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.43	1	Indian family getting into a birch bark canoe, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.44	1	Indian family posed by a tent, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.45	1	Indian woman washing clothes outside a tepee, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.46	1	Indians gathered by a tepee, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.47	1	Indian male, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.48	1	Indian male on a horse, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.49	1	White children on a horse led by an Indian male, at a dude ranch, 1920-1929. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.50	1	Crow Indian women, Crow Agency, Montana, 1920-1929. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.51	1	Indian man and woman with a birch bark canoe, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.52	1	Francis McFarland at Northwest Indian Congress, October 1925. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.53	1	Chippewa Indian woman with wild rice in winnowing basket, circa 1925. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.54	1	Chippewa Indians pounding wild rice to break the husks, circa 1925. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.55	1	Chippewa Indians gathering wild rice, circa 1925. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.56	1	Wild rice field, Leech Lake, circa 1925. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.57	1	Indians presenting peace pipe to a U.S. military officer and an unidentified man, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.58	1	Indian male wearing headdress, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.59	1	Indians in costume on horseback, circa 1935. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.60	1	Indians in costume on horseback, circa 1935. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.61	1	Indian village, 1930-1939. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.62	1	Flathead Indians in camp, Arlee, Montana, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.63	1	Flathead Indian 4th of July celebration, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.64	1	Grandmother and grandchild, Couer d'Alene Indian Tribe, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.65	1	Crow Indian tepees, Montana, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.66	1	Indian powwow, Valley Ranch, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.67	1	Salish Indian tepees near Arlee, Montana, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.68	1	Indians in canoe, Leech Lake, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.69	1	Indians in canoe, Leech Lake, circa 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.70	1	Max Big Man, 1930. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.71	1	Indian tepees burning in a rodeo show, Sheridan, Wyoming, circa 1940. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.72	1	Indian attack on an Indian village (copy of a painting), 1940. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.73	1	Flathead Indian male, Arlee, Montana, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.74	1	Henry B. Whipple, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.75	1	Young woman, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.76	1	Young man, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.77	1	Elderly man, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.78	1	Young woman, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.79	1	Sibley family member (?), Frederick (?), circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.80	1	Unidentified woman, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.81	1	Katherine McMillan, daughter of Samuel J. R. and Harriet B. McMillan, circa 1870. 1 photograph: tinted; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.82	1	Isaac McNair, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.83	1	Jean Baptiste Faribault, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.84	1	Mary Schwandt Schmidt, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.85	1	Unidentified elderly man, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.86	1	Unidentified woman, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.87	1	Unidentified man, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.88	1	Unidentified woman, circa 1860. 1 photograph: tinted; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.89	1	Unidentified man, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.90	1	Father and sons, circa 1850. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.91	1	George and Euphrasine Faribault's wedding portrait. Left to right, top: Alexander Faribault, Father Augustin Ravoux. Left to right, bottom: George Faribault, Euphrasine St. Antoine Faribault, Jean Baptiste Faribault, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 in. and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.92	2	Faded image, subject can not be identified, 1 photograph: black and white.


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III.43.93	2	Sibley House, Mendota, circa 1920. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.94	2	Sibley House, Mendota, circa 1910. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.95	2	Sibley House, Mendota, circa 1900. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.96	2	Two commercial buildings, lake in background, Duluth, 1860. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.97	2	Henry H. Sibley, circa 1886. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.98	2	Sarah J. Sibley, circa 1868. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.99	3	Presbyterian Indian Day School, circa 1900. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.100	3	The Mink Woman, circa 1909. 1 photograph: tinted.
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III.43.101	3	Matsu-apes Chief "Bear's Necklace", circa 1909. 1 photograph: tinted.
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III.43.102	3	Bad Brave, Gros Ventres Indian, circa 1909. 1 photograph: tinted.
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III.43.103	3	Infant in cradleboard, circa 1915. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.104	3	Sacagawea, circa 1805. 1 photograph: black and white.
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III.43.105	3	Standing Buffalo, circa 1862. 1 photograph: black and white; 32 x 24.5 in.
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III.43.106	3	Little Crow, 1862. 1 photograph: black and white; 32 x 24.5 in.
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III.43.107	3	Rain in the Face, Gall, Sitting Bull, circa 1860. 1 photograph: black and white; 23.5 x 31 in.
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III.43.108	3	Reverend John Eastman, circa 1880. 1 photograph: black and white.
			Digital image


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III.43.109	4	Daughters of Sitting Bull, circa 1910. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.110	5	Gideon H. Pond and Samuel W. Pond, circa 1860-1870. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.111	6	Angry Bull, Blackfeet Indian, 1950. 1 photograph: color.
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III.43.112	6	Chief Hollow Horn Bear, 1898. 1 photograph: tinted.
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III.43.113	6	Views Fort Snelling, Minnehaha Falls, Red River ox carts, a sled dog train, refugees from U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and portraits of Indian men, 1860-1869. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.114	6	Native American on horseback, 1974. 1 photograph: color.
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III.43.115	6	Snana, circa 1880. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
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III.43.116	6	Mary Schwandt Schmidt and Snana, 1899. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.117	6	Mary Schwandt, circa 1865. 1 photograph: black and white and 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 in.
			Digital image


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III.43.74-84	7	Original unique images.
			Restricted: This material, which is not available for public use, consists of the original daguerreotypes and ambrotypes. Use copies of all these items are available in Box 1 of the collection.


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III.43.85-91	8	Original unique images.
			Restricted: This material, which is not available for public use, consists of the original daguerreotypes and ambrotypes. Use copies of all these items are available in Box 1 of the collection.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Indians of North America -- Photographs.; Indians of North America -- Portraits.

Document Types:: Ambrotypes.; Daguerreotypes.; Lantern slides.; Photographs.; Tintypes.

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SIBLEY HOUSE:

OVERVIEW

OTHER FINDING AIDS

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS