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Title: Daniel Webster Longfellow
Dates: 1876-1924
Collection Number: 00088
Quantity: 60 items
      
      Abstract: Photographs by O. S. Goff and others of Fort Berthold, American Indians,  buttes and North Dakota landmarks.
Provenance: The State Historical Society  purchased the Daniel Webster Longfellow collection from his daughter, Emily L.  Latimer, (Mrs. H.B. Latimer), on March 28, 1945. The photographs and papers  were transferred from the Museum Division to the State Archives.
        
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    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  Collections:        
    MSS 20061 Daniel Webster Longfellow   
    MSS 20629 H. W. Longfellow 
    Museum Collection 9940
      
        BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
    
    Daniel  Webster Longfellow was born April 14, 1852 in the village of St. Anthony Falls,  Minnesota Territory to Jacob and Jane (Getchell) Longfellow. He worked on the  family farm and attended school in winter. He later taught country school,  worked in a bakery and in a grocery store.
    
    Longfellow  was headed to the Black Hills gold fields in 1876 when he stopped in Bismarck  and worked for a few days at the J. W. Raymond store. Raymond sent him up the  Steamer Josephine to manage the trading store at Fort Berthold, which he did  until 1880. On June 4, 1879 he married Myra C. Calhoun,  the Grosventres teacher  at Fort Berthold Agency. In 1880 he was a census enumerator. The 1880 census  shows him to be a boarder with Charles Lemon Hall along with his wife Myra C.  and three month old son Henry A. In another household lived a teamster, 19 year  old Ansel Longfellow, who may have been a some relation because both he and  Daniel’s parents were born in Maine.  In 1880 the family moved to Fargo  and then Minneapolis, Minn. where he started a retail grocery store. He  died March 16, 1943 in Hennepin County, Minn.
    Source:  MSS 20061 biographical  sketch written by Longfellow in 1938 at age 86.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00088-0001         Group  photo of Six Crow Indians, students at Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle (PA): Knows  How to Strike Enemy, Foolish Head, Carries His Food, Big Hail Stone, and  William Steele 
    00088-0002         Twenty  Crow Indian students at Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle (PA): Beatrice Big  Hail, daughter of Bread-on-Ankle, Charles Clawson, son of Takes-Things-First,  Horace Greeley, son of Long Bear, Carl Leider, Hugh Leider, Benjamin Long Ear,  son of Long Ear, Joe Martinus, son of John Martinus, John Morrison, son of  Antelope Coyote, Ollie Yellow Face, Flora Pretty Lodge, daughter of Pretty  Lodge, Martin Round Face, son of Round Face, Frank Shane, son of Goes Hunting, Fred  Shane, son of Goes to Hunt (mother), Laura Shoot Large, daughter of  Shoot-a-Lodge, Tommy Stewart, son of Thos. Stewart, George Thomas, William  Three Iron, son of Three Irons, Jack Williams, son of White Breast, Alexander  Wishaw, son of Plenty Bear, David Wishaw, adopted by Thomas Stewart.
    00088-0003         Group  of Indian children at Calhoun Cottage, Fort Buford (ND) photographer C. P.  Brown, Minot              
    00088-0004         Portrait  of Byron Wilde Christmas 1903                  
    00088-0005-1     Mrs.  Charging and Mrs. Crow's Heart and others
    00088-0005-2     Mrs.  Charging and Mrs. Crow's Heart and others 
    00088-0006         Group  of Indian children at school in Elbowoods (ND), 1924 
    00088-0007         Portrait  of Old Cherries in the Mouth
    00088-0008         Earth  Lodge in Like-A-Fishhook Village, Fort Berthold Reservation (DT)   
    00088-0009         Bismarck  (DT)    1876                       
    00088-0010         Leggings  and wife
    00088-0011         A  group of six girls in their sitting room in Calhoun Cottage, Weston (WV)             
    00088-0012         Mrs.  Big Foot Buffaloe or Good Way
    00088-0013         Medicine  Poles at Independence (ND)                  
    00088-0014         Putting  up the tent at the 4th of July Celebration at Elbowoods (ND)       
    00088-0015         A  Sunday Congregation of Mandan Indians across the river from Elbowoods (DT) in  front of a log house
    00088-0016         A  Sunday Congregation group on horses,  Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT)
    00088-0017         Four  Indian School Girls, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT)   
    00088-0018         Three  young Indian girls photographer C. L. Judd, Jamestown 
    00088-0019         Miss  Annie Dawson (Arikara) as Minnehaha McCormick Studio, Boston
    00088-0020         Wolf  Chief photographer photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0021         Mrs.  Naegle and her daughter Susie photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0022         Old  Giant (Gros Ventre)  photographer  O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0023         Mandan  Quarters of Indian Village of Berthold (DT) photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0024         Crossing  the Northern Pacific Railway and Little Missouri River. Stereoscope by F. Jay  Haynes.
    00088-0025         Clay  Butte Badlands (ND)
    00088-0026         Hard  Horn and wives 1879 photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0027         Agency  Buildings at Fort Berthold (DT) 1878 photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0028         Black  Fox and Son of the Star (Arikara Chief)
    00088-0029         Store  at Fort Berthold with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Webster Longfellow, Fort Berthold  Indian Reservation (DT) photographer  O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0030         Looking  across Mandan Quarters at Indian Village, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT)  photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0031         Mud  images of animals made by Indian boys at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT) photographer  O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0032         Mandan  Earth Lodge, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT) photographer O.S. Goff  Bismarck    
    00088-0033         Blockhouse  at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT) photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0034         One  Who Gathers Berries Running (Old Bets) Ha-za-e-yon-ke-win, St. Paul (MN)
    00088-0035         Pottery  made by Mandan Indians at Fort Berthold (ND) photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0036         Parsonage  at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT) 1879
    00088-0037         View  of parsonage in the distance at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT) 1879 photographer  O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0038         Badlands  Scene (ND) photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0039         Cerlew  Canyon of Little Missouri River 1879 stereoscope by F. Jay Haynes
    00088-0040         Gatling  Gun standing front of Officers Quarters, possibly  Fort Stevenson (DT) photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0041         Mandan  Bull boat 1879
    00088-0042         Residence  at Spinney Highlands                
    00088-0043         Flour  Mill Bismarck (DT) 1870s photographer O.S.  Goff Bismarck
    00088-0044         Wrecked  Steamer Montana
    00088-0045         Indians  with horses cattle, women and children on ground photographer O.S. Goff  Bismarck
    00088-0046         Arikara  Medicine Lodge at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (DT)                photographer S. J. Morrow, Yankton               
    00088-0047         Indian  woman and two children in front of tipi
    00088-0048         Son  of the Star (Arikara Chief) photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0049         Exploits  of Black Fox, Indian History drawings photographer O.S. Goff Bismarck
    00088-0050         Young  Man's Hall Santee Normal Training School, Santee Agency (NE) photographer W. R.  Cross, Norfolk and Niobrara, Neb.
    00088-0051         Boy's  Cottage Santee Normal Training School, Santee Agency (NE) photographer W. R.  Cross, Norfolk and Niobrara, Neb.
    00088-0052         Curios  Collection photographer O.S. Goff
    00088-0053         Indian  with eagle feather fan photographer O.S. Goff
 
    00088-0054         Poor  Wolf 
    00088-0055         Two  Indian braves seated in front of a fence photographer O.S. Goff 
    00088-0056         "One  of my Indian neighbors and children (3)." 
    00088-0057         Six  Indians in front of a painted background in studio 
    00088-0058         An  old Indian Gros Ventres who became a Christian when nearly 70 years old
    00088-0059         One  of our schoolboy's grandfather with pipe sitting in a field 
    00088-0060         Indian  schoolboy studio portrait, Kenton (OH)
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