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Title: Dr. William J. Whitman
Dates: 1885-1888
Collection Number: 2002-P-001
Quantity: 83 items
Abstract: Photographs taken by Dr. William J. Whitman on Fort Berthold Reservation.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Paul Crater of the Atlanta History Center Archives and accessioned in January 2002.
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PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
2002-P-001-00001 Identically dressed young women pose in Barry's  studio, Bismarck (D.T.), 1878-1888
    2002-P-001-00002 Dr. William J. Whitman around the time of his  graduation from medical school at Vanderbilt Medical College in Tennessee,  1880-1885
    2002-P-001-00003 The Teachers Residence and other Industrial  School buildings at former Fort Stevenson (D.T.), 1883-1888
    2002-P-001-00004 Three young Arikara men dressed to dance on the  Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00005 Spanish cowboy, likely George E. Bay, on  horseback on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00006 Children and teacher at the Mission Indian  School, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00007 Two young Arikara women, Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00008 Cree Indians outside a hide tipi with a Red River  oxcart nearby on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00009 Young Mandan Indian woman carrying a baby on her  back, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00010 Scaffolds filled with drying corn on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00011 Crows Heart poses outside his tipi on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00012 Five young Indian men ready to dance on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00013 Brush arbor with seated Indians, Fort Berthold  Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00014 Five young Indian dancers on the Fort Berthold  Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00015 Wounded Face, Sitting Bear and five other Tribal  Police on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00016 Indian men, women, and children gather at a  butchering site on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00017 Indian men, women, and children gather at a  butchering site on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00018 Hunting camp with tipis and people by a Red River  oxcart on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00019 Scaffold burial on the Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00020 Dance underway in an arbor on the Fort Berthold  Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07-20-1886
    2002-P-001-00021 Dr. William J. Whitman and other musicians on the  Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00022 Men sit atop an earth lodge at Like-a-Fishhook  Village (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00023 Dr William J. Whitman in an official photograph  by the Department of the Interior, 1886
    2002-P-001-00024 Fur garbed man, likely Dr. William J. Whitman,  physician at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00025 Men and a wagon at the Trading Post on the Fort  Berthold Indian Agency (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00026 Frame buildings in a fenced area of the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00027 Like-a-Fishhook Village, Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00028 Two Indian men ride a wagon-mounted barrel in the  snow of a Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.) winter, 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00029 Dr. William J. Whitman with two young Indian men,  one likely Crows Heart, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.),  08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00030 Figure in a sledge behind a team of horses on the  Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00031 Indian family of four stand near a frame house on  the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00032 Man in a fringed and quill worked jacket,  possibly George E. Bay, of Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00033 Slaughtering cattle in on the prairie of Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00034 Dr. William J. Whitman decked out in his winter  furs, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00035 Mother and child outside a wood-sided house on  the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00036 Butchering day at the Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00037 Like-a-Fishhook Village, Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00038 Five Indian men in the snow outside the Trading  Post at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00039 Indian dancers in a brush dance bower, Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00040 Wounded Face, Sitting Bear, and five other Tribal  Police of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00041 Two images of scaffold burials on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00042 Young Indian woman outside a log and sod house on  the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00043 Dr. William J. Whitman and six musicians at Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00044 Dance gathering at the Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00045 Oxen teams pulling sleds loaded with cottonwood  trunks on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00046 Indian man and horse team at a home site with a  log cabin under construction and a tipi, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation  (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00047 Woman stands in the doorway of an amalgamated  home on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00049 Buffalo skin tipi in the winter snows of the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00050 Five young Indian dancers in a bower on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00051 Two Gros Ventre (Hidatsa) brothers in dance  regalia on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00052 Like-A-Fishhook Village, Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00053 Young Indian woman at the entry of a log and sod  house on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00054 Ten girls and one boy stand at the door to the  Indian School on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00055 Butchering Day on the Fort Berthold Indian  Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00056 Indians dancing in a brush bower on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00057 Indian men dancing in a brush arbor on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00058 Young Gros Ventre (Hidatsa) woman and two tiny  children outside a building at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.),  1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00059 Indian man and horse team at a home site with a  log cabin under construction and a tipi, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation  (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00060 Men sit atop an earth lodge at Like-a-Fishhook  Village (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00061 Indians begin to harvest a field on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00062 Men sit atop an earth lodge at Like-a-Fishhook  Village (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00063 Like-A-Fishhook Village scene with a horse, Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00064 Indian women and others gathered in seated groups  outside a church on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00065 Log allotment house set at the base of a low  butte on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00066 People gathering at a dance bower on the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00067 Houses at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation  (D.T.), 08/17/1886
    2002-P-001-00068 Man in the snow with a long fur coat and fur hat,  on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00069 Two young girls tend a baby in a carriage on the  porch of a house on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00070 Indian woman in a fur winter cap at the Fort  Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00071 Two images, one of Dr. Whitman in his buggy and  the other of bullboats, both on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.),  1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00072 Family of missionary Major Gifford and an Indian  woman stand in front of the fence surrounding their house (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00073 George E. Bay stands ready to mount his horse, on  the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00074 People gathered around a Red River Oxcart on the  Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00075 Construction material around three of the  buildings at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00076 Dr. William J. Whitman's horse "Broncho  Pony" on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00077 Men and a wagon at the Trading Post on the Fort  Berthold Indian Agency (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00078 Indian and white families, horses and men outside  quarters on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00079 Major Gifford, missionary on the Fort Berthold  Indian Reservation (D.T.) stands at the fence of his house (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00080 Man casts a shadow on the side of a house on the  Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00081 Indian men and women at a cattle-butchering site  on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00082 Traditionally dressed Gros Ventre (Hidatsa), Man  Chief, on his horse on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
    2002-P-001-00083 Dr. William J. Whitman with two young Indian men  on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 07/20/1886
    2002-P-001-00084 Indian woman stands near a fenced farmstead on  the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.T.), 1886-1888
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