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Title: Modoc Indian War Lantern Slides
Dates: 1872-1873
Collection Number: photCL 515
Creator/Collector:
Heller, Louis, 1839-1928;
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904;
Putnam & Valentine
Extent: 52 lantern slides in 1 box; lantern slides 8 x 10 cm. (3 x 4 in.) and smaller. See itemized list under "Additional Collection
Guides"
Repository:
Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Abstract: This collection includes lantern slides of both photographs and illustrations of the Modoc War from 1872 to 1873. Notable
images include portraits of Modoc leader Captain Jack and Winema (Toby) Riddle, shaman Curly-headed Doctor, and Indian scout
Donald McKy; and the lava beds that served as the Modocs’ stronghold.
There are 29 photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, and 10 by Louis Heller.
Language of Material: English
Access is granted to qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact the Curator of Photographs at the Huntington
Library.
All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Photographs. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Huntington as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Modoc Indian War Lantern Slides. Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Given by Grabhorn Press in 1945.
Scope and Content of Collection
The lantern slides show Indian scouts for the U.S. Army; U.S. Army soldiers navigating through lava beds; a Warm Spring Indian
camp; U.S. Army camps; possibly San Francisco Bulletin’s correspondent William McKay; Captain Jack’s family; Modocs Scar-Faced
Charley, and Boston Charley; the gravesites of Boston Charley, Black Jim, Schonchiss, and Captain Jack; Modoc women; illustrations
of what is possibly the Modoc attack on the 1873 Peace Commission; Modoc prisoners of war; illustrations of Indians; ruins
of buildings; and a wounded U.S. soldier.
Indian interpreters
Indian scouts
Modoc Indians
Modoc Indians—Wars, 1873
United States. Army. Infantry, 1st
United States. Army. Cavalry
Jack, Captain, Modoc Chief, d. 1873
Winema, Modoc Chieftainess, 1842-1932
Siskiyou County (Calif.)
Lantern slides