Title:
Andrew Drips family portraits
Abstract:
Includes a pair of ambrotype portraits in a single case picturing Andrew J. Drips and his two young sons, Andrew Jackson Drips,
Jr. and Thomas Drips. Copy portraits are of Francis Marion Barnes, Catherine Mulkey Drips Branch, Louise Geroux Drips, and
Catherine Drips Mulkey (and husand?).
Date:
ca. 1856-18-- (issued)
Subject:
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Drips, Andrew -- 1789?-1860 -- Portraits
Dakota Indians -- Portraits
Fur traders -- West (U.S.) -- Portraits
Note:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Includes numerous copy photographs from the notebook of Andrew Drips.
AMBROTYPES: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Moccasins worn in 1838 by Catherine Drips (Mulkey) at age six have been transferred to the Historical Objects collection of
The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 19xx.031:64--OBJ)
Drips was a fur trader and U.S. Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri, 1842-1846. He later traded for P. Chouteau, Jr., & Co.
at their Scotts Bluff post, Fort John. His second wife (and mother of his sons Andrew and Thomas), Louise Geroux Drips, was
a Native American of the Sioux tribe.
Received in conjunction with the Andrew Drips papers (BANC MSS P-W 37)
Type:
graphic
Ambrotypes.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
ca. 14 photographic prints (including 2 ambrotypes) : b&w ; various sizes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1962.018--POR
BANC PIC 1962.018--CASE
BANC PIC 1962.018
Origin:
United States
Copyright Note:
AMBROTYPES: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.