Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Santa Clara Indian.
- Native American (Pueblo, Tewa) man poses outdoors on horseback near Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The man is wrapped in a woven blanket. The horse has a bridle and saddle.
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1910-1920.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1910-1920.; Tewa Indians--Men--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1910-1920.; Santa Clara Pueblo (N.M.)--1910-1920.; Horseback...
- [1910]
- Spokane portrait
- Studio portrait of a Native American Spokane man and woman; she stands wearing a dress, bead necklaces, abalone shell disks, and wrapped in a blanket; he sits, wearing a cotton shirt, neck scarf, abalone disks, and a "ranger" hat with a blanket...
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Spokane Indians--Women--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1905?]
- Spokane portrait
- Standing portrait of a Native American Spokane man and two women; he wears a shirt, beaded vest, gauntlets and a blanket; the women wear dresses, bead necklaces, abalone shell disk earrings; one is wrapped in a blanket, the other holds a...
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Spokane Indians--Women--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Alice Good Horse
- Seated portrait of Alice Good Horse, a Native American Sioux woman, posed outside on a fur skin rug over the snow covered ground, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. She wears braids, a dress with a blanket around her waist, metal rings, bracelets,...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Women--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Good Horse, Alice.
- [1890 or 1891]
- Chief Young Man Afraid of His Horses an his tepee taken at Pine Ridge Agency S.D.
- Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Native American Oglala Sioux, poses in his tepee camp on the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. He wears a polka dot shirt, leggings, hat, and a blanket around his waist; possibly his wife, wrapped in a blanket shows...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Oglala Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.;...
- 1891? January 17
- Native American woman and children
- A Native American (tribe unknown) woman stands near the entrance to a tepee with two children, she holds one wrapped in a blanket shawl. The other child is wrapped in a blanket. Two horses and a dog stand in the distance.
- Indians of North America--1890-1920.; Children--1890-1920.; Tipis--1890-1920.; Women--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1915]
- Chief Red Cloud and his wife in later years
- Standing outdoor portrait of Chief Red Cloud, (Makhpia-sha, or Maqpeya-luta) Native American Sioux (Lakota or Teton group, Oglala band) and his wife. Red Cloud led his people in the Fetterman fight and was a great negotiator and diplomat. He wears...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Oglala Indians--1880-1900.; Teton Indians--1880-1900.; Aged persons--1880-1900.; Spouses--1880-1900.; Red Cloud, 1822-1909.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Native American woman and child
- A Native American (Pueblo) mother and child pose outdoors on a pueblo style building, probably at the Manitou Cliff Dwelling Museum in Manitou Springs, Colorado. The woman wears woven boots, a dress, and a blanket shawl. The child is wrapped in the...
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1920.; Pueblo Indians--Women--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1920.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Mothers & children--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1915?]
- Issuing supplies
- White men, some in military uniform, stand around bundles of supplies to be distributed to Native American (Brule ?)prisoners of war, Fort Randall, South Dakota.
- Dakota Indians--Capture & imprisonment--South Dakota--Randall--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Capture & imprisonment--South Dakota--Randall--1880-1890.; Randall (S.D.)--1880-1890.; Clothing relief--South Dakota--Randall--1880-1890.; Food...
- 1882?
- Four women and man seated
- Native American (probably Navajo) four women and one man are seated on a striped blanket at a fair in New Mexico. Behind the group, people stand under pine trees; two blanket looms hang from the branches. The women wear patterned wool blankets over...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Looms--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Chief Painted Horse, Chief Little Bull
- Studio portrait of two Native American (Dakota) men, identified as Chief Painted Horse and Chief Little Bull. Painted Horse is sitting and wears moccasins, a blanket around his waist, a vest over a long sleeved shirt, and a kerchief. Little Bull is...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Little Bull.; Painted Horse.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Navajo women and children
- A group of Native American (Navajo) women and children pose in front of an adobe building. An elderly women, wrapped in a patterned blanket, sits beneath a paned glass window. One woman stands, she wears a dark shirt, necklace, silver bracelets,...
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Navajo Indians--Clothing & dress--1890-1900.; Adobe buildings--1890-1900.; Children--1890-1900.; Women--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Annie Colliere (quamir)
- Annie Colliere, a Native American (Plains) woman, poses outdoors with three children. She holds a baby wrapped in a blanket; one of the children wears a bonnet; the other has her head covered by the baby's blanket. A brush shelter and trees are in...
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Great Plains--1880-1910.; Children--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Infants--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Mothers & children--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Women--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Colliere, Annie.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Chief of Southern Cheyennes,- Stone Calf, -and wife
- Studio portrait (sitting and standing) of Stone Calf and his wife, Native American (Cheyenne) man and woman. Stone Calf wears a blanket around his waist, a patriarchal cross around his neck, and scarves that cover his braids. Stone Calf's wife...
- Cheyenne Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Spouses--1880-1890.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1890.; Women--1880-1890.; Stone Calf--Family.; Stone Calf.
- 1871
- Unidentified Kansas res.
- View of a Native American Potawatomi (Prairie Band) baby wearing a diaper and sitting on a blanket playing with balls of yarn attached to a post, Potawatomi Reservation west of Mayetta, Kansas. Shows a finished blanket.
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta (Kan.)--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indian Reservation (Kan.)--1930-1940.;...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]]
- Jicarilla? So. Ute?
- Portrait of perhaps a Native American Jicarilla Apache or Southern Ute man wrapped in a blanket and holding a beaded bag, standing next to a girl wrapped in a patterned blanket.
- Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Girls--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Late Chiricahua renegade captured at South Fork
- Studio portrait (sitting) of two of Geronimo's wives, Native American (Chiricahua Apache) women. One woman wears a blanket on her shoulder while the other woman wears another section of the same blanket on her head.
- Chiricahua Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Spouses--1880-1890.; Women--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1888]
- Loco Warm Spring Apache chief
- Studio portrait (standing) of Loco, a Native American (Warm Springs Apache) medicine man. He poses near a rifle and a blanket draped over a pedestal. He wears boot moccasins, a blanket, beaded necklace with pendant, and cloth headband.
- Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Warm Spring Apache Indians--1880-1890.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1890.; Loco, Warm Spring Apache Chief.
- 1884
- Navajo weaver
- A Native American (Navajo) woman poses near a loom. She is wrapped in a blanket.
- Indians of North America--1880-1910.; Navajo Indians--1880-1910.; Navajo women weavers--1880-1910.; Weaving--1880-1910.; Women--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910]
- Type: Yei Gi Chai Weaver: Mae Lewis Size: 68" x 34".
- View of a Native American (Navajo) rug that depicts kachina and yei figures. A tag attached to the corner of the blanket reads: "Sedgwick Trading Post".
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1960-1970.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--1960-1970.; Navajo textile fabrics--1960-1970.; Pictorial rugs--1960-1970.; Rugs--1960-1970.; Lewis, Mae.
- 1968
- Mixing flour
- A group of spectators gathers to watch two men mix flour on a large blanket in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. One man empties a metal bucket onto the blanket while another man stands near him holding a large sack on his left shoulder....
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cookery--1900-1910.; Flour & meal industry--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Group of unidentified Indians, Sioux, full length
- Group of unidentified Native Americans, Dakota or possibly Crow, full length studio portraits with painted backdrop; group of three, two men and one woman; Native American man standing behind seated pair with two feathers in hat, muffler around...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Unidentified Indian man and woman, Crows, seated, full length
- Unidentified Crow man and woman, full length seated studio portrait with painted backdrop; man with feathers in hair, necklace, shirt, muffler around neck, blanket wrapped around waist, pants with fringe, and moccasins; woman with ornamentation on...
- Crow Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Group - William F. Cody with Red Cloud and American Horse, Dakota Indians, Cody standing, Indians sitting, wearing elaborate headdresses, full length
- holding a feather pole.; Red Cloud, Dakota Chief, on left, William Frederick Cody "Buffalo Bill", center, and American Horse, Dakota Chief, on right in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Madison Square Garden, New York; Red Cloud sits, wearing...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Wild West shows--1890-1900.; Entertainers--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Red Cloud, 1822-1909.
- [1897 or 1898]
- Group - William F. Cody with Red Cloud and American Horse, Dakota Indians, Cody standing and Indians sitting, Indians wearing headdresses, full length
- blanket wrapped around waist, moccasins, and holds a pole with feathers.; Red Cloud, Dakota Chief, on left, William Frederick Cody "Buffalo Bill," center, and American Horse, Dakota Chief, on right in Wild West Show taken in Madison Square Garden,...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Wild West shows--1890-1900.; Entertainers--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Red Cloud, 1822-1909.
- [1897 or 1898]
- Red Cloud and American Horse, Dakota, seated, wearing Indian war bonnets, full length
- Red Cloud, Dakota Chief, on left, and American Horse, Dakota Chief, on right, both full length, seated; taken during performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden, New York; Red Cloud wears feather headdress, breastplate,...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Wild West shows--1890-1900.; Entertainers--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908.; Red Cloud, 1822-1909.
- [1897 or 1898]
- Red Cloud, John Burke, and American Horse, full length
- Red Cloud, Dakota Chief, seated on left, John Burke, standing in center, and American Horse, seated on right during Wild West Show in Madison Square Garden, New York; Red Cloud wears feather headdress, breastplate, blanket wrapped around waist,...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Wild West shows--1890-1900.; Entertainers--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908.; Red Cloud, 1822-1909.; Burke, John, d. 1917.
- [1897 or 1898]
- White Face and family, Dakota, seated, in Indian clothing, full length
- White Face and family, Dakota, full length seated studio portrait with painted backdrop; White Face wears feather headdress, earrings, breastplate, metal bands around wrists, beaded sash laying on lap, blanket wrapped around waist, and moccasins;...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Women--Portraits--1880-1890.; Families--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; White Face--Family.
- [188-?]
- Rain-in-the-Face and wife outside tepee
- Rain-in-the-Face and wife, Sati, Dakota Native Americans, standing outside tepee probably on Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, where he lived after surrendering to General Nelson Miles at Fort Keogh, Montana in 1880 until he died in 1905;...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Tipis.; Rain-in-the-Face, ca. 1835-1905.; Sati.
- [188-?]
- Two unidentified Indians, Crows, full length
- Full length studio portrait of two unidentified Crow males, one seated on rock, wrapped in blanket, wearing vest, jewelry and feather in hair, other standing next to wooden fence, wrapped in blanket and wearing feather in hair.
- Indians of North America--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Crow Indians.
- [188-?]
- Allan
- Allan (also known as Alex Beaverhead), a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stands on a striped blanket in front of a teepee on the reservation. He has strips of dark fur wrapped around his hair. He also...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900-1910.; Beaverhead, Alex.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Antoine and Paul Pichette
- Paul Pichette and Paul Charley, two Native American men on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stand on a striped blanket near a creek on the reservation. Pichettewears a wide-brimmed hat and a dark vest. He has a scarf tied around...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Charley, Paul.; Pichette. Paul.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Eneas, Mat-a-lan and Isabelle
- Eneas, Mat-a-len and Isabelle, three Native Americans on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stand with a small child in a dirt area on the reservation. Each of the two women has a plaid, wool blanket wrapped around her. The man...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Geo Red Hawk (Goot La) and family
- Geo Red Hawk, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stands with two Native American women in front of a teepee on the reservation. A horse stands behind them. The man holds a round feather bustle in his left...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Women--Montana--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Filipe
- Filipe, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stands on a striped blanket in front of a teepee on the reservation. He wears a tall, feather headdress with ermine fur tassles hanging from its sides. He holds...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Filipe. Salish Indian.
- [1900?]
- Filipe
- Filipe, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, kneels on a striped blanket in front of a teepee on the reservation. He kneels on his left knee and aims a rifle into the distance. He wears a tall, feather...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Tipis--Montana--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Marie and Juan Pierre
- Marie and Juan Pierre, two Native American children on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stand on a striped blanket in front of a teepee on the reservation. A patterned, wool blanket is unfolded and spread out on the side of the...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Children--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Tipis--Montana--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 adn 1907?]
- Sin-se-la and wife (Nat-gat-mas-high-hi)
- Sin-se-la (also known as Sam Moody) and his wife, Nat-gat-mas- high-hi, a Native American, couple on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, pose on horseback in front of a group of teepees on the reservation. Sin-se-la wears a tall...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Sin-se-la--Family.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Woman on horseback with baby
- An unidentified, Native American woman poses on horseback in front of a teepee on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. A small child rests in a cradleboard adorned with beaded flowers on the side of the horse. The woman wears a...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Cradleboards--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Women and children on horseback
- An unidentified Native American woman and two children sit on a horse in front of a wood cabin on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. Another small child stands in the right background near the cabin. The woman wears a checkered...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Children--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- A-gath
- A Native American couple, possibly including Agate Ogden Finley, poses on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The woman holds a blanket wrapped over one shoulder and around her waist. Her hair is in braids. The man holds a folded,...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Finley, Agate Ogden.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Domingo, New Mexico
- An American Indian man and woman (probably Keresan from Santa Domingo Pueblo) are near a storefront in Domingo (Sandoval County), New Mexico. A sign on the window of the building reads: "Year Tires," "K[od]aks." The man has a headband and is...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Domingo--1910-1930.; Keresan Indians--New Mexico--Domingo--1910-1930.; Domingo (N.M.)--1910-1930.; Couples--New Mexico--Domingo--1910-1930.
- [between 1918 and 1925?]
- William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
- A "Buffalo Bill" Cody lookalike sits on a dark brown horse. He wears a buckskin coat with tassles, riding boots that reach his knees, spurs, a hat with brim curved slightly upward, and leather gauntles with tassles. A woolly sheepskin blanket is on...
- Wild west shows--1880-1900.; Entertainers--1880-1900.; Horses--1880-1900.; Impersonation--1880-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Souvenir bien an Colonel Cody Verona 1890
- Sioux Chief Rocky Bear stands in front of a group of Native American men and one woman in front of a group of tents in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show while touring in Verona, Italy. Standing on the far left slightly removed from the group...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Rocky Bear.; McKuhn, Bill.; Nelson, John Young, b. 1826.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.; Indians of North America.
- [1890?]
- Sioux Indians
- Two Native American men stand in the foreground holding their righhands and their left hands together. The two stand in front of a brick wall in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show near Earl's Court in England. The man on the left has a...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- No Neck and family, Spotted Tail and family
- Sioux leader No Neck and his family sit with Spotted Tail and his family on a wood platform in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn, New York. No Neck sits in the left foreground wearing a feather headdress and...
- No Neck--Family.; Spotted Tail, 1823-1881--Family.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; No Neck.; Spotted Tail, 1823-1881.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1894?]
- Death Valley Scott, with mustache
- A group of men, including "Death Valley Scott," rides horses in a dirt arena for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The group includes an American cowboy (Scott), a Mexican vaquero, a Native American, and a Russian Georgian Cossack. They are members...
- Cossacks--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cowboys--1900-1910.; Gauchos--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.; Death Valley Scott.
- [1901]
- Office in the bath house which burned in Jan. 1940
- Interior of front office in bath house, Hot Sulphur Springs, Grand County, Colorado, shows a rustic board trim room, a counter with glass display cases on top, flower vases, a caged area with stacks of towels and inner tubes; a sign reads: "Prices:...
- Hot Sulphur Springs (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Bathhouses--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1920-1940.; Interiors.
- [between 1920 and 1940]
- Capitol Hill Review
- Sina Rota (Gray Blanket)
- Sina Rota (Gray Blanket), a Native American (Omaha) man poses outdoors. He holds a wooden cane and wears fringed and beaded leg bands decorated with bells, a feather bustle, feather and fur pelt necklace, and a feather in his hair.
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Omaha Indians--1900-1910.; Clothing & dress--1900-1910.; Gray Blanket.
- 1900