Florence Barclay Hyatt Photograph Collection: Finding
Aid
Finding aid prepared by Michelle Sanchez and updated by Diann Benti.
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Florence Barclay Hyatt Photograph Collection
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1860s-1924
Bulk dates: approximately 1860s-1890s
Collection Number: photCL 178, photDAG 94
Creator:
Hyatt, Florence Barclay, 1865-
Extent:
49 photographs in 1 box ; photographs 15 x 20 cm. (6 x 8 in.) and smaller + 1 daguerreotype in separate case
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 collection contains 50 photographs collected by Florence Barclay Hyatt (born 1865) including card photographs chronicling
the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in
southwestern South Dakota from 1890 to 1891, with images of Buffalo Bill, Captain Frank Dwight Baldwin, General Nelson Appleton
Miles, and Chief Kicking Bear. Other images include nature scenes in
the mid-Western United States and portraits of Hyatt’s extended family members.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
Florence Barclay Hyatt Photograph Collection. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Purchased from the Shorey Bookstore March 7, 1963.
Biographical Note
Florence Barclay Hyatt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1865; her mother had been a Union nurse while her father had been
a soldier in
the Union army during the Civil War. In 1876, Florence’s family moved to the Dakota Territory; one of the first bits of news
that greeted them here was of the Custer Massacre, and Florence
remembered watching personally the soldiers calling on Mrs. Custer to inform her of the tragedy.
Later in life, Florence married Wellington Barrington Hyatt, whose father was Aaron Hyatt, a well-known Civil War gunsmith.
The Hyatts had a son whom they named Ray Hyatt.
Relocating seemed to be a way of life for Florence. Throughout the years, she lived in Bismarck, North Dakota; Chadron, Nebraska;
Savanna, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; and Seattle, Washington.
Historical Note
A significant portion of photographs chronicle the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in southwestern South Dakota. This
event stemmed from white settlers’ fears of the Indian Ghost Dance,
which many settlers and the United States Army saw as a war dance that encouraged physical violence. Tensions between the
Sioux and the U.S. Army came to a head in December 1890, when a Sioux rifle accidently
discharged, prompting the military to shoot and kill more than 250 Sioux Indians, mainly women and children.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains 50 photographs (28 prints, 21 tintypes, and 1 daguerreotype), collected by Florence Barclay Hyatt
(born 1865), who moved with her family to the Dakota Territory as a child and later ran a boarding house in Bismarck,
North Dakota. The photographs include 14 card photographs chronicling the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in southwestern
South Dakota from 1890 to 1891. Photographs show images of the
corpses of Sioux Indians in a mass grave, Chief Hollow Wood, Chief Young Man Afraid of his Horses, council meetings amongst
Sioux chiefs, the Ghost Dance, Pine Ridge Indian Agency, Indian police,
the Pine Ridge Agency hospital, Indian men and women, and the remnants of Indian camps. Eight views of the mid-Western United
States include Sioux Indian Red Tomahawk; Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota;
the 1890 Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa; and various nature scenes.
The Northwestern Photographic Company created the Wounded Knee Massacre photographs (1-14). F.B. Fiske created photograph
(15) of
Red Tomahawk, and Brown & Wait created photograph (21) of the Corn Palace at Sioux City, Iowa.
Additionally, the collection also includes 28 Civil War era tintypes, carte-de-visites and card photographs, and one daguerreotype
depicting Florence Barclay Hyatt’s family members from the Askren, Johnson, Kirkpatrick,
Messenger, and Ruark families. Some of the sitters have been identified while others remain unknown.
Indexing Terms
Corn palaces
Dakota Indians -- Photographs.
Ghost dance -- Photographs.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Photographs.
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency -- Photographs.
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890 -- Photographs.
Baldwin, Frank Dwight, 1842-1923 -- Photographs.
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Photographs.
Kicking Bear, 1853-1904 -- Photographs.
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-192 -- Photographs. 5
Red Tomahawk (Dakota Indian), approximately 1853-1931 -- Photographs.
Young Man Afraid of His Horse, approximately 1830-1900 -- Photographs.
Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952, photographer.
Northwestern Photographic Company, photographer.
Shorey Book Store, seller.
Chadron (Neb.) -- Photographs.
Iowa -- Photographs.
Minnehaha Falls (Minn.) -- Photographs.
Nebraska -- Photographs.
Wyoming -- Photographs.
Card photographs.
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Daguerreotypes (photographs).
Photographs.
Portraits.
Tintypes.
Box 1
Prints and tintypes (Items 1-49)
Battle of Wounded Knee and Aftermath, and Pine Ridge Agency, 1890-1891. Photographer: Northwestern Photographic Company, Chadron,
Nebraska
Note
Item titles transcribed from titles on images; cataloger-supplied titles are in square brackets.
Box 1, Item 1
The Medicine Man, taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee S.D.
Box 1, Item 2
Burial of the Dead at the Battlefield at Wounded Knee, S.D.
Box 1, Item 3
[Remains of an Indian camp after a battle‚--possibly Wounded Knee]
Box 1, Item 4
Grand Council between Friendly and Hostile Indian Chiefs at Pine Ridge Agency, S.D. Jan. 17, 1891. Chief Kicking Bear talking.
Box 1, Item 5
Beef Issue at Pine Ridge, S.D.
Box 1, Item 6
[Indian men, women, and children]
Box 1, Item 7
Bird's eye view at Indian village at Pine Ridge Agc., S.D.
Box 1, Item 8
Chief Hollow Wood, taken at Pine Ridge, S.D.
Box 1, Item 9
[Indian Ghost Dance before Battle of Wounded Knee. 1890]
Box 1, Item 10
Chief Young Man Afraid of his Horses and his Tepee taken at Pine Ridge Agency, S.D. Jan. 17, 1891
Box 1, Item 11
Chief Kicking Bear, leading chief of the Brule hostile Indians. Pine Ridge, S.D.
Box 1, Item 12
Buffalo Bill, Capt. Baldwin, Gen. N.A. Miles, and Capt. Moss. Pine Ridge Agency, S.D.
Box 1, Item 13
Indian police at Pine Ridge
Box 1, Item 14
[Hospital at Pine Ridge Agency, S.D.]
Mid-West Views
Note
Item titles transcribed from titles on images; cataloger-supplied titles are in square brackets.
Box 1, Item 15
Red Tomahawk. Sioux. [Part of a 1924 calendar] [Photographer: F.B. Fiske]
Box 1, Item 16
View at Fort Robinson, Neb.
Box 1, Item 17
Crow Butte, Neb. Southeast view
Box 1, Item 18
View at head of Chadron Creek, Neb.
Box 1, Item 19
View on west side of Chadron Creek, Neb.
Box 1, Item 21
Corn Palace, 1890 [Photographers: Brown & Wait, Sioux City, Iowa]
Box 1, Item 22
Minnehaha in all of her glory. The scene of Longfellow's immortal story. Taken in March 1897, about the hour of eleven
Note
Title transcribed from handwritten caption on item verso.
Florence Barclay Hyatt’s Family Portraits (Tintypes, Card Photographs, and Daguerreotype)
Note
Item titles transcribed from handwritten identifications on item versos; cataloger-supplied titles are in square brackets.
Box 1, Item 24
Levi Johnson, Grandma Messenger's brother. Entered Civil War at age of 14 as a drummer boy
Box 1, Item 26
Bud Kirkpatrick [possibly Newton Porter Kirkpatrick]
Box 1, Item 28
John Kirkpatrick [standing with unidentified man]
Box 1, Item 31
Preston Kirkpatrick, mother's uncle [in Civil War uniform] [possibly Cyrus Preston Kirkpatrick]
Box 1, Item 35
Johnson Messenger [in Civil War uniform]
Box 1, Item 41
Uncle Den [Unidentified man]
Box 1, Item 45
[Unidentified young woman]
Box 1, Item 46
[Unidentified older woman with book]
Box 1, Item 47
[Unidentified older woman]
Box 1, Item 48
School friend of mother's [Unidentified young man]
Box 1, Item 49
[Unidentified bearded man]
