While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Preface to
Descriptive
Catalogue, Photographs of North American
Indians
The following Descriptive Catalogue is intended to systematize the collection of
Photographic Portraits of Indians now in the possession of the United States
Geological Survey of the Territories, and to place on record all the
information, we have been able to obtain of the various individuals and scenes
represented. It is of course far from complete; but it is a beginning, and every
new fact that comes to light will be added to what has already been secured.
This information has been gathered from many sources, principally from Indian
delegates visiting Washington, and by correspondence with agents and others
living in the Indian country.
Particular attention has been paid to proving the authenticity of the portraits
of the various individuals represented, and it is believed that few, if any,
mistakes occur in that respect.
The historical notices are mainly compilations from standard works on the
subject.
All of the following portraits and views are photographed direct from nature,
and are in nearly every case from the original plates, the exceptions being good
copies from original daguerreotypes or photographs that are not now accessible.
The portraits made under the supervision of the Survey are generally accompanied
by measurements that are as nearly accurate as it has been possible to make
them.
The pictures vary in size from the ordinary small card to groups on plates 16 by
20 inches square. The majority, however, are on plates 6½
by 8½ inches square; these are usually
trimmed to 4 by 5½ inches, and mounted on
cabinet cards.
All the photographs are numbered upon their faces, and as these numbers do not
occur in regular order in the text a Numerical Index is appended, by means of
which the name of any picture, and the page on which the subject is treated, may
be readily found.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
