Reverend Berry Edmiston collection of photographs of Apache peoples, approximately 1890s

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Summary

Abstract:
A collection of 45 photographs (glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and copy prints) of Apache peoples and some U.S. Army soldiers in Arizona, approximately 1899. The Apache are seen with baskets, in family groups, posed with rifles, riding horses, and in lines at federal agency buildings.
Extent:
1.33 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Reverend Berry Edmiston collection of photographs of Apache peoples, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of 45 photographs (glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and copy prints) of Chiricahua? Apache people at an encampment in Arizona, approximately 1899. Images include Apache men, women, and children in a line outside a federal agency building in San Carlos, Arizona; a woman and man displaying baskets; Apache men standing in a line next to a U.S. Army soldier; brush huts and adobe buildings; Apache men riding horses and holding guns (probably scouts). Three images show Apache men and a boy in poses for the Devil Dance, wearing headdresses, masks, and blankets, and holding weapons. One group portrait depicts Native American and Anglo men and women posed together. There are also five copy photographs of the collector, Reverend Berry Edmiston, and his wife Ednah Lee Edmiston, seen in youth and in old age, including one image of them standing outside their Riverside, California home, approximately 1890s. Box 1 contains copy prints of all the glass plate negatives, and 17 of 30 lantern slides. Some lantern slides are duplicates of the glass plate images.

Biographical / historical:

Reverend Berry (James Littleberry) Edmiston was born in 1831 in Lincoln County, Tennessee. In 1861, he married Ednah Lee, and they both graduated from Adrian College, Maryland in 1866. In 1869, he became pastor of the Swedenborgian Society church in Henry, Illinois. The Edmistons moved to Riverside, California in 1878 and settled on a ranch. Edmiston became pastor of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church of Riverside in 1885; he died in 1912.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Joe Edmiston, January 2020.
Processing information:

Processed by Suzanne Oatey in October 2021.

Arrangement:

Arranged by format: Box 1. Copy prints; Box 2. Glass plate negatives and lantern slides.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information. Box 2: Items are fragile; available with approval from Curator of Photography.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Reverend Berry Edmiston collection of photographs of Apache peoples, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2129
reference@huntington.org
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