Finding Aid to the Winold Reiss and W. Langdon Kihn Portrait Prints Collection MS.1341
Mallory Furnier
Library and Archives at the Autry
2015 March 20
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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Winold Reiss and W. Langdon Kihn Portrait Prints Collection
Creator:
Kihn, W. Langdon
Creator:
Reiss, Winold
Creator:
Linderman, Frank B.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1341
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
(16 folders, 1 oversized folder, 4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1920s-1940s
Language of Material:
English
.
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Winold Reiss and W. Langdon Kihn Indians of North America Portrait Prints, circa 1930s-1940s, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS. 1341; [folder
number] [folder title][date].
Winold Reiss and W. Langdon Kihn Indians of North America Portrait Prints Collection contains a booklet and loose pages with
portrait prints of American Indians, as well as printing plates from W. Langdon Kihn that were used in the Southwest Museum
publication,
The Masterkey.
The loose prints are housed in a "See America First" portfolio and are based on original portraits by Winold Reiss and W.
Langdon Kihn of Pikuni and Kainah Tribes of Blackfeet American Indians from Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes
National Park, Alberta, Canada. Materials were published by the Great Northern Railway Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. There
are two complete copies and a third copy containing 23 prints only. In addition there is a 1922
Exhibition Portaits of American Indians by W. Langdon Kihn booklet from the Anderson Galleries, New York.
There is also a newspaper clipping from the
New York Herald Tribune about Reiss' 1935 exhibit at Squibb Galleries, as well as an exhibit brochure and brochure about Reiss' Art School in Glacier
National Park.
The collection also includes an envelope containing Frank B. Linderman's
Out of the North: A Brief Historical Sketch of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe, an additional 24 color prints from Winold Reiss portraits, prints from W. Langdon Kihn's plates, and loose Winold Reiss
lithograph prints.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Indians of North America -- Great Plains
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Portraits
Waterton Lakes National Park
Portrait collection
Glacier National Park