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Title: Whitestone Hill   
                
Dates: ca. 1850s-1940s
Collection Number: 00004
Quantity: 63 prints and uncounted negatives
Abstract: Photographs of Whitestone  Hill and related images. Some images are copies of those contained in the  Research Notebooks of Dr. Hal Porter Collection in MSS#10548.  Copies of photographs from other institutions  in the collection are restricted. 
                  
    Subjects  include: General Alfred Sully, Whitestone Hill, Major Albert House, Chief Two  Bears, Colonel David Wilson, William C.F. Field, Samual Pollock, Josiah Eveans,  H.F. Eaton, General Sully, Francoise LaFramboise and children, Colonel R. P.  Furnas, E. R. Kennedy, Lucius, Beeman, John J. Worlay, Fort Pierre, Seventh  Iowa Cavalry, Prairie Battery, Indian Chiefs, Martin Futher, General Henry H.  Sibley, James Ashburn, General John Pope, Chief Little Crow, Albert and Alberta  Two Bears, Basil Two Bears, Frank Youngbear, James All Yellow, Agnes Looking  Horse, Battle of Killdeer Tahkahokuty MT.
Provenance: The Hal P. Porter Papers (MSS 10548) were donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Porter in 1958. The photographs were separated from the Manuscript Collection.
Property Rights: The State Historical  Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
                  
  Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in  this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's  heirs.  Researchers should consult the  1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17, U.S. Code and an archivist at  this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
                  
    Access: This  collection is open under the rules and regulations of the State Historical  Society of North Dakota.
                  
    Citation: Researchers  are requested to cite the collection title, collection number, and the State  Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic  references.        
Related  Collection:          
    MSS 10548  Hal P. Porter Papers
INVENTORY OF DIGITIZED IMAGES
0004-001              Charge of Sully's Brigade at the  Battle of Whitestone Hill, 1911 (painting by Alfred Sully )
    0004-002              General Alfred Sully Sioux City Iowa,  1863 (copy Langdon Sully Columbia University)
    0004-003              Indians Breaking Camp, 1952 (copy  Langdon Sully New York City)
    0004-004              General Alfred Sully's Headquarters  with Mount Hood Vancouver (Wash.) or Portland (Or.) (painting by Alfred Sully )
    0004-005              General Alfred Sully's  Headquarters Wagon, 1864
    0004-006              Chief Two Bears and Chiefs of  Mandans, Gros Ventres, Sioux Fort Berthold (D.T.), 1864-1865
    0004-007              Camp General Alfred Sully's  Headquarters Fort Berthold (D.T.), 1864
    0004-008              General Alfred Sully's Prairie  Battery Fort Berthold (D.T.), 1864
    0004-009              Sully's Camp, 1864
    0004-011              Old Buffalo at Bay (painting by  Alfred Sully )
    0004-012              Sioux Indian Maidens at Fort  Pierre (D.T.), 1855 (painting by Alfred Sully )
    0004-013-1          John J. Worley Private 2nd Nebraska  Cavalry, 1862-1863
    0004-013-2          Major Albert E. House 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-014              Ten veterans from the 6th Iowa  Cavalry, Wankon (Iowa) who were present at Whitestone Hill, 1954-1955
    0004-015              Lucius N. Beeman 1st Lieutenant  Company F 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-016              Officers at General Alfred Sully's  Headquarters Fort Berthold (D.T.), 1864
    0004-017              E. R. Kennedy 9th Indiana Infantry  Whitestone Battlefield Park Committee Ludden (N.D.)
    0004-018              Colonel Robert W. Furnas and staff  2nd Nebraska Cavalry, 1863
    0004-019              Francois LaFrambois, Fannie 12,  George 10, John 8 Copy from Sioux City Public Museum
    0004-020              Encampment of Troops
    0004-021              H. F. Eaton Member of Whitestone  Battlefield Park Committee, Oakes (N.D.)
    0004-022              Composite Wm C. F. Field, General  Alfred Sully, Colonel Samuel M. Pollock and Josiah L. Evans
    0004-023              Colonel David S. Wilson Commanding  Officer 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-024              Chief Two Bears, Yankton (D.T.) 1877
    0004-025              Major Albert Emory House 6th Iowa  Cavalry Commander 3rd Battalion Whitestone Hill
    0004-026              Theodorus Northrup Grand Army of  the Republic, Monango (N.D.)
    0004-027              General Alfred Sully and his  favorite horse (self-portrait)
    0004-028              Cavalry Charge Sully's Brigade  White Stone Hill Battle, September 3, 1863 (Harper's Weekly, October  31, 1863) 
    0004-029              General Alfred Sully (copy from  West Point U.S. Military Academy)
    0004-030              General Alfred Sully (copy from  Adjutant General's Office Washington D.C.)
    0004-031              Julius C. Luce 6th Iowa Cavalry (copy,  original at Groten S.D. library)
    0004-032              William Barkhoff 6th Iowa Infantry  (copy from Mrs. F. W. Knight, Spencer Iowa)
    0004-033              James Ashburn at time of  enlistment 6th Iowa Infantry, 1863 (copy from Mrs. F. W. Knight, Spencer Iowa)
    0004-034              Captain James A. Goodrich 2nd  Nebraska Cavalry
    0004-035              Andrew T. Shanklin Sergeant  Company H 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-036              Wesley A. Heath 1st 6th Iowa  Cavalry
    0004-037              Basil Two Bears (grandson of Chief  Two Bears) and Mato Cinca 
    0004-038              Bronze Plaque honoring Sioux who  died at White Stone Hill by Clinton Hess
    0004-039              Composite photo of Silver O.  Wilson, Anton Hansen, Gabriel Larsen and unidentified soldiers of 6th Iowa  Cavalry
    0004-040              Members of 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-041              Members of 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-042              Members of 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-043              Portrait Composite: James McIntosh  Jr., Griffin Gager, Francis Swehla, and unidentified members of 6th Iowa  Cavalry
    0004-044              Members of 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-045              Members of 6th Iowa Cavalry
    0004-046              Whitestone Memorial to Indians  unveiled at Whitestone Hill, northwest Dickey County (N.D.), July 4, 1942
    0004-051              General John Pope
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