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Andrew Drips family portraits.
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Title:
Andrew Drips family portraitsDate:
approximately 1856-18-- (issued)Subject:
n-usp--Dakota Indians -- Portraits
Fur traders -- West (U.S.) -- Portraits
Dakota -- Portraits
Dakota Indians
Fur traders
West United States
Drips, Andrew -- 1789?-1860 -- Portraits
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Includes numerous copy photographs from the notebook of Andrew Drips.
Includes a pair of ambrotype portraits in a single case picturing Andrew J. Drips and his two young sons, Andrew Jackson Drips,
Jr. and Thomas Drips. Copy portraits are of Francis Marion Barnes, Catherine Mulkey Drips Branch, Louise Geroux Drips, and
Catherine Drips Mulkey (and husand?).
RESTRICTED AMBROTYPES. Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed,
in writing, to the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.
Received in conjunction with the Andrew Drips papers (BANC MSS P-W 37).
Moccasins worn in 1838 by Catherine Drips (Mulkey) at age six have been transferred to the Historical Objects collection of
The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 19xx.031:64--OBJ).
Drips was a fur trader and U.S. Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri, 1842-1846. He later traded for P. Chouteau, Jr., & Co.
at their Scotts Bluff post, Fort John. His second wife (and mother of his sons Andrew and Thomas), Louise Geroux Drips, was
a Native American of the Sioux tribe.
Type:
graphicPortraits.
Ambrotypes.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 14 photographic prints (including 2 ambrotypes) : black and white ; various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
United StatesCopyright Note:
RESTRICTED AMBROTYPES. Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed,
in writing, to the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.