The quality of some of these photos are just amazing when you consider that they were taken 150 years ago…
Civil War Photos 1861 - 1865
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Timothy O'Sullivan's Pictures Show the Landscape As It Was Charted for the Very First Time
These remarkable 19th century sepia-tinted pictures show the American West as you have never seen it before - as it was charted for the first time.
The photos, by Timothy O'Sullivan, are the first ever taken of the rocky and barren landscape.
At the time federal government officials were travelling across Arizona, Nevada, Utah and the rest of the west as they sought to uncover the land's untapped natural resources.
The photos, by Timothy O'Sullivan, are the first ever taken of the rocky and barren landscape.
At the time federal government officials were travelling across Arizona, Nevada, Utah and the rest of the west as they sought to uncover the land's untapped natural resources.
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19th century housing: Members of Clarence King's Fortieth Parallel
Survey team explore the land near Oreana, Nevada, in 1867. Clarence King
was a 25-year-old Yale graduate, who hired Irish tough guy O'Sullivan
for his Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Funded by the
War Department, the plan was to survey the unexplored territory that lay
between the California Sierras and the Rockies, with a view toward
finding a good place to lay railroad tracks while also looking for
mining possibilities and assessing the level of Indian hostility in the
area.
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Incredible: Tents can be seen (bottom, centre) at a point known as Camp
Beauty close to canyon walls in Canyon de Chelly National Monument,
Arizona. Photographed in 1873 and situated in northeastern Arizona, the
area is one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes in North
American and holds preserved ruins of early indigenous people's such as
The Anasazi and Navajo.
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On this rock I build a church: Old Mission Church, Zuni Pueblo, New
Mexico pictured in 1873 where the Zuni people of North have lived for
millennia. O'Sullivan was famous for not trying to romanticise the
native American plight or way of life in his photographs and instead of
asking them to wear tribal dress was happy to photograph them wearing
denim jeans.
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Land rising from the water: The Pyramid and Domes, a line of dome-shaped
tufa rocks in Pyramid Lake, Nevada photographed in 1867. Taken as part
of Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel,
O'Sullivan's mesmerising pictures of the other-wordly rock formations at
Pyramid Lake committed the sacred native American Indian site to camera
for the first time
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Blackmore Collection
Studio portrait of a Native North American sitting on a chair, wearing ear ornaments, a peace medal(?), a cloth tunic, an embroidered sash, a blanket around his waist, and holding a hat.
Blackmore Collection Photographs of Native Americans
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| studio portrait of Wah-tian-kah, an Osage chief, seated wearing a cloth shirt, decorated leggings, and ear ornaments; his hair is partially shaved and he is holding a pipe |
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| studio portrait of Smutty Bear (Ma-to-sa-bi-tshi-a), a Chief of the Yankton-Yanktonai, sitting on a chair, wearing a feather headdress, a piece of cloth tied around his neck, a shell necklace, a warrior shirt with shell(?) embroidery, a blanket covering his legs, and a pair of leggings |
Blackmore Collection Photographs of Native Americans
photo available at the British Museum
William Blackmore collection
Photograph (black and white) from an album; portrait of (from left to right) Fast Bear, Shotted Tail, John, Long Hair, and Palladay (sitting in the front); Fast Bear is standing on the far left, wearing a hat, and wrapped in a blanket with tassels; Shotted Tail, stands second from the left, wearing a piece of cloth tied around his neck, a shirt, and a blanket wrapped around himself; John is standing on the far right, wearing a hat with a feather and a section of his hair wrapped in cloth and wearing a shirt, and wrapped in a blanket; Long Hair, sits on the far right, with his hair in two section wrapped in cloth, wearing a piece of cloth tied around his neck, a shirt, and a blanket wrapped around himself, whilst holding a pipe(?); Pallasay, sits in the foreground in the centre, wearing a hat, a shirt, and a pair of trousers; in the background on the left, is a western-style building; directly behind the men, is a pile of tree logs;
William Henry Blackmore
William Blackmore (1827-1878) remains a little known millionaire mid-Victorian polymath. He was a successful lawyer based in Liverpool and subsequently London. An international financier involved in numerous North American land grants, he was also principal financier of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. His reputation by the mid 1870s within London financial circles was that he ‘has means of obtaining information in the City such as very few men possess.’
Blackmore was acknowledged by contemporaries to have so effectively exploited photography to document North American Indians that his photographic collection was copied to form the basis of the holdings of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Blackmore was acknowledged by contemporaries to have so effectively exploited photography to document North American Indians that his photographic collection was copied to form the basis of the holdings of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Mary Bernard Aguirre
Mary Bernard Aguirre whose husband's wagon train took Steve Elkins to NM was the daughter of Elkins' mentor, Joab Bernard. Bernard had a famous supply house in Kansas City which sold provisions to the wagon trains as they left for the west on the Santa Fe Trail.
1864, “THE MOWRY SILVER MINING COMPANY” BOND
“THE MOWRY SILVER MINING COMPANY” BOND “Few men did more for Arizona during its early history than Sylvester Mowry”
This $1,000 Mortgage Bond was issued to William Tell Coleman (1824-1893), a prominent and early resident of San Francisco where he became a successful shipping merchant, running a Steamship Line to New York.
The Mowry Massacres
Also known as the Mowry Murders, were a series of Apache attacks in and around the mining town of Mowry, Arizona between 1863 and 1865. At least sixteen American settlers were killed during the period.
The former United States Army lieutenant, Sylvester Mowry, purchased the Patagonia mine in 1860 from a party of Mexicans. Soon after, Mowry began operating the mine and attracted miners to the area for work. The Chiricahua and other Apache bands were also attracted though, and they considered the Santa Rita Mountains to be sacred ground and they defended it accordingly by raiding and ambushing settlers. As the American Civil War began, United States Army troops were withdrawn from the frontier of Arizona to fight the Confederates in the South. This left the settlers unprotected and vulnerable to attack, even after Union troops from California arrived.
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| A grave along the trail to Mowry, a victim of an Apache ambush. |
Offices and headquarters of the Mowry Mine in southwestern AZ.
The Mowry Mine in 1862 was famous in the east because Sylvester Mowry appeared in Congress more than once appealing for AZ to be made a state.
His mine produced a large amount of silver coin and easterners were told about it in a number of newspapers. (He was a graduate of West Point and a former Union officer who had been based in Yuma before buying the mine and developing into one with a smelter.)
His mine produced a large amount of silver coin and easterners were told about it in a number of newspapers. (He was a graduate of West Point and a former Union officer who had been based in Yuma before buying the mine and developing into one with a smelter.)
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in Kentucky where he was mortally wounded in a Union ambush in May 1865, aged 27.
Fort Sumner
On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the creation of Fort Sumner. General James Henry Carleton initially justified the fort as offering protection to settlers in the Pecos River valley from the Mescalero Apaches, Kiowa, and Comanche.
The fort was in charge of the Bosque Redondo Indian reservation on the Pecos River in eastern NM about 1867
The fort was in charge of the Bosque Redondo Indian reservation on the Pecos River in eastern NM about 1867
Headquarters of the Mowry Mine
The Mowry Mine, Originally the Patagonia Mine
In 1860 Sylvester Mowry purchased the Patagonia Mine and renamed it the Mowry Mine.
In 1860 Sylvester Mowry purchased the Patagonia Mine and renamed it the Mowry Mine.
FORT SUMNER
On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the
creation of Fort Sumner. General James Henry Carleton initially
justified the fort as offering protection to settlers in the Pecos River
valley from the Mescalero Apaches, Kiowa, and Comanche
Story Board For Yankee Gold
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Showing My friend, Chun-Mei My Story Board I worked with for some months. |
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