Guide to Photographs and Print Collections - Missouri History Museum

Missouri Lithographs and Engravings
This file contains oversize lithographs and engravings of Missouri not found in artist
specific collections.
1 large folio drawer
Missouri Towns and Counties
The Missouri Towns and Counties file contains photographs and drawings of buildings,
streets, and other sites in towns and counties in Missouri other than St. Louis City and
County. Please request the folder list for the names or locations of the approximately 300
sites represented.
Subjects include: government buildings; churches; religious buildings; Arrow Rock,
Missouri; residences; commercial buildings and stores; Boonville, Missouri; flood
damage; Jefferson City, Missouri; Missouri state capitol building; Kansas City, Missouri;
St. Charles, Missouri; schools; hotels; Ste. Genevieve, Missouri; (more).
14 boxes, 3 oversize folders, 2 other items
Native Americans
The Native Americans file contains various images of Native Americans arranged
alphabetically by artist or by tribe.
Box 1 includes: copy photographs of daguerreotypes by Thomas Easterly; photographs
with pastel by Emile Herzinger; engravings and photos of engravings and paintings by
Carl Wimar; photos of Frederick Remington sketches made to illustrate Francis
Parkman's "The Oregon Trail;" reference copies of Edward S. Curtis photographs for his
"The North American Indian;" and reference copy photographs of Alexander Gardner’s
“Scenes in the Indian Country” series.
Box 2 includes: copies of an 1860 Emile Herzinger photo of Father R.P. DeSmet with a
delegation of tribal chiefs from the Rocky Mountains in San Francisco and other images
of DeSmet's mission; illustrations removed from books (7 illustrations from "Prairie and
Rocky Mountain Adventures, or Life in the West," by John C. Von Tramp; 6 plates and
the title page from "Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience among
the Red Men of the Great West" by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge; 6 illustrations from
"Bancroft's History of the United States;" 40 engravings removed from an unknown
source); a colored engraving titled "Amerique Septentrionale: Vieillard du haut-Missouri,
implorant le secours d'un guerrier;" four copy print photo of items from the Smithsonian
Office of Anthropology; (more).
Box 3 includes images of members of various tribes: Osage; Chippewa; Keokuk; Apache;
Mandan; Blackfoot; Cheyenne; Sioux; Crow; Hopi; Ute.
Box 4 (oversize) includes: "Death of Tecumseh" print; "Scenery of the Upper
Mississippi, An Indian Village" by Currier and Ives; "Ree Indians Crossing the Missouri
in 'Bull Boats'" by Charles Graham; Native Americans on horses in the desert by Edward
Borein; "Antelope Priests Chanting at Kisi, Moki Snake Dance;" (more).
3 boxes
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