Finding aid for the Buffalo Soldiers photographs 7150

Bo Doub -- with collection-level notes adapted from the seller, Max Rambod Inc.

USC Libraries Special Collections

2023 October

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: Buffalo Soldiers photographs

Identifier/Call Number: 7150

Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/3435

Physical Description: 0.02 Linear Feet 1 pamphlet binder

Date (inclusive): 1890-1910

Language of Material: English .

Container: 1

Scope and Contents

A collection of five photographs of African American Buffalo soldiers. One of the frequent assignments of Buffalo Soldiers was to assist the early frontiers of the Western United States. These African American soldiers contributed greatly to pathfinding, road and trail construction, building telegraph lines, and mapping out much of the frontier for homesteaders. The collection includes a photographic postcard depicting Buffalo Soldiers alongside white soldiers escorting a wagon train; a tintype of a Black soldier wearing his field hat and posing with three white civilians; a photograph of an all-Black regiment in a sketching class to learn the necessary skills of topographical survey; a photograph of a Buffalo Soldier in uniform and boots; and a stereoview showing a group of 14 African American Buffalo Soldiers in uniform. These photographs were likely taken before World War I, during the American Indian Wars or the U.S.-Mexican Border Wars.

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections 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.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Max Rambod Inc., August 7, 2023.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Buffalo Soldiers photographs, Collection no. 7150, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Subjects and Indexing Terms

African American pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs

African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs

African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Archival resources

Photographic postcards

Photographs

Postcards

Stereoscopic photographs

Tintypes (prints)

United States. Army -- African American troops -- Photographs