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Portraits of Cherokee Indians identified by Ingalls as missionaries, preachers and teachers. Several views of school and seminary buildings; group portraits of students and teachers; children from "Orphan Asylum" in front of U.S. Agency office; Cherokee National Female Seminary near Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Baptist Indian Institute and Theological school; scenery around Tahlequah.

People identified: William P. Ross; his brother, D. H. Ross; J. A. Scales; Col. Jesse Chisholm; James Taylor; Daniel Gritts; Rev. Levi Walkingstick; Huckleberry Downing; G. W. Hicks; Adam Lacie (or Lacy); Mark Bean and Pete Markam; John R. Vann; Letitia Fields; Lydia Sixkiller; Mary Jones (daughter of a white missionary who was adopted by the Cherokee Council); Little Foot; Rev. John Buttrick Jones and family. Photographer: John K. Hillers; unidentified.

Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date
approximately 1869-approximately 1915.
Call number
photCL 275
Creator
Ingalls, George W (1838-1921)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ingalls, 1923.
Restrictions
Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs. The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.
Associated people
Barry, D. F. (1854-1934,)
Bell, C. M. (approximately 1849-1893,)
Brady, Mathew B., (approximately 1823-1896,)
Gentile, Carlo, (1835-1893,)
Hillers, John K., (1843-1925,)
Moorhouse, Lee, (1850-1926,)
Randall, A. F. (1832-1909,)
Savage, C. R. (1823-1899,)
Shindler, A. Zeno (1856-1916,)
Vroman, A. C.
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