Weinland (William H.) Photograph Collection

Loose Photographs

Box 1

Alaska (Items 1-80) approximately 1884-1885

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Scope and Contents

Views along the Kuskowim River, Bethel, Nushagak, Togiak, Ounalaska and Bethel. Photographs of Eskimos, traders, trading posts, churches and buildings of these areas. Some very interesting "Before and After" shots of Eskimos with regard to the "civilizing" influence of Christianity. Portraits of Edith Kilbuck, one of the missionaries, and her children.

Box 2

Morongo Reservation (Items 81-160) approximately 1890-1920

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Box 2, Item 81-94

Schools.

Scope and Contents

U.S. Government schools, including new and old buildings. Views of teacher, Sarah Morris, and students.

Box 2, Item 95-98

Moravian Church.

Scope and Contents

Interior and exterior views of the church building.

Box 2, Item 99-106.1

Cemeteries.

Scope and Contents

Indian, Catholic and Moravian cemeteries.

Box 2, Item 107-113

Dwellings & Topographical views.

Scope and Contents

Moravian missionary cottage, Native American homes and topographical views of the Potrero and surrounding countryside.

Box 2, Item 114-123

Activities & Scenes on the Reservation.

Scope and Contents

Views of horse racing, picnics, laborers digging ditches and making adobe bricks.

Box 2, Item 124-136.1

Captain John Morongo and family.

Scope and Contents

Portraits of John and Rose Morongo, their children and relatives. Views of the Morongo residence in various stages of disrepair.

Box 2, Item 137-151

Various members of the Morongo Reservation.

Box 2, Item 152-160

Unidentified people and views.

Box 3

Miscellaneous (Items 161-262)

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Box 3, Item 161-198

Reservations in southern California.

Scope and Contents

Individuals, schools, and views from the reservations surrounding Morongo including Soboba (161-164), Torees-Martinez (165-185), Agua Caliente/Warner's Ranch (186-195), and Pala (196-198).

Box 3, Item 199-201

Schools in southern California.

Scope and Contents

Unidentified cyanotype of schoolchildren; Group portrait of students at Perris Indian School; Superintendent Savage and family on occasion of a summer outing; Postcard view of Sherman Indian Institute in Riverside.

Box 3, Item 202-209

Portraits of U.S. Government officials and Native Americans.

Scope and Contents

Portraits of Horatio Nelson Rust, Amelia Quinton, Capt. Juaro, Samuel Powatt, Victoriano, and others.

Box 3, Item 210-216

"Ramona."

Scope and Contents

Sites and individuals affiliated with Helen Hunt Jackson's fictionalized tale of California Mission Indians.

Box 3, Item 217-236.1

Unidentified reservations in southern California.

Box 3, Item 237-246

Arizona reservations.

Scope and Contents

Primarily shots of Yuma Reservation with one photograph of Sara Morris posing with schoolchildren. One topographical view of Pima-Papago dwelling. Many unidentified views.

Box 3, Item 247-259

Northwest and Plains Indians; Unidentified and Miscellaneous tribes.

Scope and Contents

Portraits of two Cheyenne children; gatherings [unidentified] possibly in Montana Territory; Unidentified Plains Indians; Two photographs of Hopi dances.

Box 3, Item 260-262

Miscellaneous and Unidentified views.

Box 4

Scenes from Riverside and San Diego Counties (Items 263-349) approximately 1915

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Scope and Contents

Contact prints from original glass plate negatives which concentrate on the town of Banning, California and the surrounding countryside. Topographical and bird's eye views of the town (263-276); Street scenes and views of Banning's buildings, including the high school (277-297); Processing almonds and apricots (298-314); Scenes of wreckage from a train explosion and an earthquake (315-324); Palm Canyon and vicinity (325-336); Views from San Diego County (337-347).

Box 5

Weinland Family photographs (Items 350-525)

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Scope and Contents

Portraits of the Weinland and Yost families, the children and grandchildren; Friends of the Weinlands; Photographs of various residences, schools, and universities (including Caltech and Stanford), trips taken and places visited.

Photograph Albums

Weinland Family photograph album approximately 1910s and 1920s

Scope and Contents

Many personal snapshots of William and Caroline Weinland, their children, and grandchildren. Additionally, a majority of the views focus on Morongo and the surrounding reservations with images of Indians, missionaries, and various activities. An item-level finding guide to this volume was typewritten by Clarence Weinland (the youngest son of the Weinland and donor of the collection) and is in the collection file.

Box 6

Weinland Family photograph album approximately 1910s and 1920s

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Morongo Reservation and "The Portrero" albums approximately 1880s-1901

Scope and Contents

Two albums of Sarah Morris, a school teacher on the Morongo Reservation, that focus on the government school and schoolchildren. There are views of the various members of the reservation, and some interesting photographs of basket collections.

Box 7

Photograph album of Mr. and Mrs. French Gilman Voume 2 (1-68) 1901

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[New government schoolhouse at the Potrero. Exterior views at two different angles.] Volume 2, Item 1-2

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Nine school children pose with Sarah Morris & unidentified Indian woman next to schoolhouse.] Volume 2, Item 3

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[New government schoolhouse at the Potrero. Sarah Morris stands on porch.] Volume 2, Item 4

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Old Diabla. [Elderly woman sits on bottom step of schoolhouse with basket in her hands.] Volume 2, Item 5

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Juan Lugo's wife (Polineria). [Woman seated next to large basket & holding two baskets in her lap.] Volume 2, Item 6

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (137)

[Views of roosters, one by the name of "Jumbo" and another by the name of "Los Angeles" being fed by a woman. Morongo Reservation?] Volume 2, Item 7-10

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

New school house (sic) at the Potrero. [Group of children posing on the porch with Sarah Morris standing at right.] Volume 2, Item 11

Physical Description: 5 x 8 in.

[Group of school children standing in front of old schoolhouse [?] with Sarah Morris standing at right. The names "Polinaria Sisco, Nancy Morongo, Louisa Jose, and Modesta Sisco written in ink above image.] Volume 2, Item 12

Physical Description: 4.5 x 7.5 in.

Jim Morongo, Maria Ventura, Charles Ventura, Willie Pablo, Manuelito Chino. [Group photo of six children.] Volume 2, Item 13

Physical Description: 7.5 x 4.5 in.

Santiago and family. [Man and two women with two children on wagon.] Volume 2, Item 14

Physical Description: 4 x 4.5 in.

[Unidentified gathering of Indian men and women. See Album 39(152) for some of same people, possibly same gathering.] Volume 2, Item 15

Physical Description: 4 x 4.5 in.

S.E. Gilman's baskets. Volume 2, Item 16-17

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Mrs. Burr's baskets. [Collection of baskets on porch. On verso says "Pima baskets at my sister-in-law's.] Volume 2, Item 18

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Mrs. Burr's China cabinet. Volume 2, Item 19

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Interior view of room with piano in one corner, Indian basket on the floor. Statement on verso: "My parlor in Pomona. April 1901.] Volume 2, Item 20

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Cyanotype of wood-burning stove. Unidentified location.] Volume 2, Item 21

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Snapshots of "Mrs. Burr," "Jula," and local vegetation.]

Washington Monument. [View of monument between trees.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Just a lake. [View of unidentified lake with two ships.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Unidentified man standing with arms folded next to native plant.]

Physical Description: 3.5x3.5 in.

Mrs. Burr's baskets. [Indian baskets & blankets piled atop a bed.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Views of the Potrero countryside and a small cottage identified as "Our cottage now Mrs. Ellis's" with Sarah Morris and French Gilman(?) standing in front.]

Physical Description: 3 x 4 in.

[Cyanotype views of various locales in New York State - Lake George; Lake Mohonk.]

Capt. John's house as it was when I taught and lived in it. [View of John Morongo's house with two children standing in doorway.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicates of photCL 39 (134) & photCL 39 vol.3 (5)

Ruins of Capt. John's house at Potrero in which I lived and taught for a time. [Ruins of John Morongo's house.]

Physical Description: 3.5 x 5.5 in.

Capt. John's old house. [View of ruins.]

Physical Description: 3.5 x 5.5 in.

Old school house at Potrero. [Exterior view of dilapidated building.]

Physical Description: 3.5 x 5.5 in.

[Views of the toddler, Ida Miguel, in the yard, holding an apple, and standing in a basket.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Grandfather. [Elderly man bent over in the act of chopping wood.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Cat-claw. [View of brush with mountains in the distance.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Victoria Miguel and children. [V. Miguel & her three children seated on porch steps and riding in an open carriage.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

A specimen of Banning civilization. [Cyanotype of a woman is seated on the ground in front of a brush dwelling and surrounded by baskets.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Unidentified group of women and children.]

Physical Description: 2.5 x 4.5 in.

Tomas Sisco, Polinaria's father. [Postcard of an elderly man sitting astride a horse. The caption reads: "A Native Son. Banning, Cal."]

Physical Description: 5.5 x 3.5 in.

[Unidentified group of young Indian men.]

Physical Description: 2.5 x 4.5 in.

[Polineria Sisco and baby posing outdoors next to unidentified dwelling.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Sweat house.

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

[Views of clouds over San Jacinto peak and an eagle's nest.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Ramolda, Victoria Gabazon, [?]iona Ventura, Annie Morongo. [Portrait of four young girls posing outdoors.]

Physical Description: 7 x 4.5 in.

[New government schoolhouse at the Potrero with children posing in front.]

Physical Description: 5 x 7 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (89)and photCL 39 Vol 3 (2).

Capt. John's house when used as a school building. [Portrait of school children lined up in front of building with Sarah Morris standing in doorway at rear and Rose and John Morongo standing at right. Damaged print.]

Physical Description: 4 x 7 in.

Carmel Lugo, Ella Morongo, Marinianna Sabachio. [Three small girls pose outdoors.]

Physical Description: 7.5 x 4.5 in.

Old school house at the Potrero. [Group of children posing in front of building with Sarah Morris standing at right.]

Physical Description: 4.5 x 7.5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (82).

[Views of tree trunk.]

Physical Description: 3 x 3 in.

Alexander Arguella, Lomas Arguella, Francisco Esfroma. [Three adolescent boys pose outdoors.]

Physical Description: 7.5 x 4.5 in.

Box 7

Album: "Potrero Photographs" Volume 3 (1-38)

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[Two unidentified children in granary basket.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (154).

[Government Indian Day school at the Potrero. New building with children posing in front.]

Physical Description: 5 x 6 1/2 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (89).

Catholic cemetery at Potrero. [View of circle of rocks in foreground, crosses marking graves in the background. Badly faded print.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Moravian cemetery, Potrero. [Close-up view of markers w. stones covering graves. Badly faded print.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (104).

[Captain John Morongo's house at the Potrero. Badly faded print.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (134).

Rose, Annie, Ella and Sarah. [Rose Morongo seated in wicker chair and surrounded by her three daughters.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Bartesol Rice and children. [B. Rice in front of dwelling with four small children.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (144).

Four generations. Old Maria and her mother, her son Juan & his children. [Five people stand in front of thatched dwelling.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 Vol 1 (93).

Three generations. Pablo, his mother & Will [Two older people seated with baskets, the older woman working on a basket, and the two younger people stand to the side.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (147).

Will Pablo's daughter. [Small girl poses in basket.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Sweat house. [View of entrance to sweat house.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Grandmother. [Old woman seated on steps and wrapped in a blanket.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Annie, Ella and Sarah. [Daughters of John & Rose Morongo posing outdoors. Badly faded print.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Annie, Ella, Sarah and myself. [Daughters of John & Rose Morongo & Sarah Morris seated in a wicker chair at center.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

[Elderly woman with bundle tied around her head - "Old Maria." Badly faded print.]

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (141).

Old Maria. [Woman seated on ground with hand covering her face. Women working in the background.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Old Maria. [Woman with her back turned to the camera working on a basket.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Potrero school. [Group view of school children with Sarah Morris, the teacher, standing in background at left. Faded print.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Basket maker. [Over-exposed view of woman in front of dwelling making a basket.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (141).

Council house. [View of council house with elderly woman seated in front.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Potrero. Moravian church and parsonage. [Bird's eye view over the Potrero.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Victoria and children. [Victoria Lugo and three small children in front of house.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

New council house.

Physical Description: 3.4 x 5.5 in.

[Sarah Morris and some of her pupils.]

Physical Description: 2.5 x 2.5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (84).

Poleneria. [Woman holding basket & standing next to small boy.]

Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.5 in.

[Grouping of baskets with three circled in ink and numbered. Possibly made by Poleneria pictured in #26 above this photograph.]

Physical Description: 2.5 x 4.5 in.

[Bird's eye view of the Potrero/Morongo Reservation.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

Two groups of the Potrero Day School. [Views of school children pasted side-by-side in album.]

General

Duplicate variants of photCL 39 (86-88).

Ramona. [Woman shown washing clothes and facing camera.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Duplicate of photCL 39 (210).

Victoria and children at [Victoria Lugo and two young boys and a girl standing in front of a house.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

General

Variant of photCL 39 (131-132).

Capt. John. [Portrait view of Capt. John Morongo. Oval print.]

[Unidentified group of men and women standing in front of palm tree.]

Potrero school building. [New government school building w. Sarah Morris standing on steps.]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

[Topographical view of field with buildings in distance. Vicinity of Morongo?]

Physical Description: 4 x 5 in.

[Group of school children at Morongo.] Small, circular snapshot.

[Elderly woman with bundle of reeds on her back, her hand on her forehead.]

[Unidentified dwelling made of brush, boards and other materials.]

Physical Description: 3.5 x 2.5 in.

[Unidentified gathering of men in front of old school house?]

Physical Description: 4 x 4.5 in.

Negatives

Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet(4 boxes)

Scope and Contents

One box of film negatives and three boxes of original glass plate negatives.

Conditions Governing Access

RESTRICTED: Film negatives (Box 8) are housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Box 8

Film negatives

Scope and Contents

Film negatives (5 x 7 inch) for the following photographs: 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 332, 335.

Box 9

Glass negatives

Scope and Contents

Glass plate negatives (5 x 7 inch) for the following photographs: 83, 102, 105.1, 106, 118.1, 120, 136, 151, 182, 266-291. Contact prints were made from these negatives (see Boxes 1-4) and have the corresponding numbers.

Box 10

Glass negatives

Scope and Contents

Glass plate negatives (5 x 7 inch) for the following photographs: 292-304; 315-323; 325-331; 333, 334, 336. Contact prints were made from these negatives (see Box 4), and have the corresponding numbers.

Box 11

Glass negatives

Scope and Contents

Glass plate negatives for the following photographs: 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 346.1, 347, 387, 525. Contact prints were made from these negatives (see Boxes 1-4) and have the corresponding numbers.