Finding Aid to the Photographic Portraits of Modoc Indians of the Modoc War PC 006

Jaime Henderson

California Historical Society

January 2019

678 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

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Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: California Historical Society

Title: Photographic portraits of Modoc Indians of the Modoc War

Creator: Heller, Louis Herman

Identifier/Call Number: PC 006

Physical Description: 2 folders

Date: 1873

Language of Material: Materials in collection are in English.

Scope and Content

Contains 15 black and white cartes de visite picturing Modoc Indians who took part in the Modoc War of 1872-1873. Portraits taken by Louis Herman Heller after their capture by Captain C.B. Throckmorton. Includes portraits of Captain Jack and his family, Schonchin, Steamboat Frank, Hook Jim, Donald McKay (posed with Captain Jack's capturers), Shacknasty Jim, Scar-Faced Charley, Black Jim, Bogus Charley, Ike, Boston Charley, and Curly-Headed Doctor. Includes a group portrait with a Caucasian man identified as Fairfield. Each mount is printed at bottom: I certify that L. Heller has this day taken the photographs of the above Modoc Indian prisoner under my charge. Capt. C.B. Throckmorton, 4th U.S. Artillery, Officer of the Day. I am cognizant of the above fact. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, U.S.A. Cartes de visites were published by Carleton E. Watkins. Advertisement for Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery printed on back of mount.

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

Materials in this collection, which were created in 1873, are in the public domain in the United States. Permission to publish or reproduce is not required.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials found in collection; provenance is unknown.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item, date]; Photographic Portraits of Modoc Indians of the Modoc War, PC 006; [box number, folder number]; California Historical Society.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Cartes de visite

Modoc Indians -- California -- Siskiyou County -- Pictorial works

Modoc Indians -- Wars, 1873 -- Pictorial works

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Jack, Captain, Modoc Chief, d. 1873

Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery