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Title: Philip Reade Collection of Native American Photographs by William S. Soule
Dates (inclusive): 1867-approximately 1900
Bulk dates: 1867-1869
Collection Number: photCL 189
Creator:
Miller, Fred E., 1868-1936; -- Photographs.
Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908 -- Photographs.
Extent:
25 photographs in 2 boxes; prints 13 x 21 cm. (5 x 8 in.) and smaller.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This is a collection chiefly of studio portraits of Native Americans from the Midwestern and
Southwestern United States taken by photographer William S. Soule during the American Indian Wars
in the late 1860s.
There are also views of their
homes and camps on reservations.
Language: English.
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Philip Reade Collection of Native American Photographs by William S. Soule. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of Philip Hildreth Reade, date unknown.
Biographical Note of William S. Soule
William Stinson Soule was born in Maine in 1836. At the age of 27, he served in the Union Army during the Civil War but was
wounded at the Battle of Antietam, resulting in a discharge.
In 1865, Soule worked at a photographic gallery in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, before heading west to improve his health,
taking his photography equipment with him.
In 1869, Soule traveled to Camp Supply in Oklahoma; it was there he photographed Indian prisoners of war from the American
Indian conflicts in the Great Plains. Later that same year, he traveled to Fort Sill, which served as an Indian agency and
a
military control headquarters for various Plains Indians. Here, Soule photographed studio portraits of members of the Plains
tribes, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, from 1870 to 1874.
Around 1874, Soule left Fort Sill and traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, where he opened and ran a photography studio until
his retirement in 1902. Soule died in Boston at the age of seventy-two in 1908.
Biographical Note of Philip Reade
Philip Hildreth Reade (1844-1919) was a Brigadier General in the United States Army
and fought against the Plains Indians in the American Indian Wars in the late 1800s.
Scope and Content of Collection
This is a collection chiefly of studio portraits of Native Americans from the Midwestern and Southwestern United States taken
by photographer William S. Soule during the American Indian Wars
in the late 1860s.
There are also views of their homes and camps on reservations.
The photographs in this collection depict members of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, Osage, and Wichita tribes
during
the American Indian Wars; Native American camp sites on Indian reservations; chieftains; a medicine man; native prisoners
of war; native
women and children; braves and their families; tipis; native families;
and native scouts for the U.S. army. Notable portraits include Lone Wolf, Satank, Chief Stumbling Bear, and Chief Powder Face.
William S. Soule is the photographer of the first 23 photographs (taken ca. 1867-1869), and Fred Miller is the photographer
of the last two (taken ca. 1900).
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Arapaho Indians -- Photographs.
Cheyenne Indians -- Photographs.
Comanche Indians -- Photographs.
Crow Indians -- Photographs.
Indian reservations -- Photographs.
Indian scouts -- Photographs.
Indians of North America—Great Plains -- Photographs.
Kiowa Indians -- Photographs.
Osage Indians -- Photographs.
Tipis -- Photographs.
Wichita Indians -- Photographs.
Lone Wolf, Kiowa Indian -- Photographs.
Satank, Kiowa Chief, 1810-1871 -- Photographs.
Stumbling Bear, Kiowa chief -- Photographs.
Colorado -- Photographs.
Indian Territory -- Photographs.
Kansas -- Photographs.
Llano Estacado -- Photographs.
Montana -- Photographs.
Oklahoma -- Photographs.
Texas -- Photographs.
Photographs.
Portraits.