This is a collection of glass plate negatives and prints collected by Major George W. Ingalls, a United States Indian agent, 1872-1875, who worked among Paiute and other tribes in the West, as well as among Great Plains, Great Basin and Eastern tribes relegated to Indian Territory. Many of the photographs were made in the early 1870s and include photographs by John K. Hillers made during expeditions with John Wesley Powell in 1873 and 1874; views of Indian children attending seminary schools; portraits of tribal leaders in western suits; missionaries and churches in Indian Territory.
A young Southern Paiute woman with cradle-board
next to her, Southeastern Nevada, 1873
Cheevers and his two wives, Tabenanaka and
his wife, and U.S. interpreter, ca. 1874
Cherokee belle (Addie Foreman), 1875
Cheyenne Indians and white men at temporary camp during
Grand Council, 1875. G. W. Ingalls seated at right, holding cradle-board
Chief White Man (Arapaho), Indian Territory, 1875
Daughters of Big Mouth, Arapaho, 1875
Source: California Digital Archive