Beschreibung:

Lot of 28 cabinet card photographs capturing the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, most by photographers Trager & Kuhn of Northwestern Photo. Co. of Chadron, NE, with a minority by W.R. Cross and others. Note that many of the Northwestern Photo. Co. negatives were actually made by employee Clarence Grant Morledge, while George Trager was caught in a snowstorm on the way to the scene. All were collected by and acquired from Pat (Lathrop) Read, third generation trader with American Indians in Lawrence, KS. Eight are from the gruesome negatives made by George Trager on New Year's Day 1891, just five days after the "battle." In one, a group of men stand amidst the carnage on the frozen battlefield, including Washington correspondent George H, Harris (standing in front of the mounted man), who holds moccasins and other relics taken from the dead, and a similar view shows the men at a distance with one Indian's frozen body featured in the foreground at right. A mounted Lieut. Sydney A. Cloman, 1st U.S. Infantry, poses proudly amongst the bodies in another shot, and another is centered on a heap of corpses at the center of the Indian camp, looking northeast across what was left of the council circle, including at upper center the remains of an Indian wagon obliterated by the Army's Hotchkiss guns. Also included are the session's most famous images: close-ups of the corpses of Medicine Man and Big Foot, the stiffened corpses loaded on to a wagon while Army officers look on from the top of a ridge, and of course the iconic image of the mass grave. There is one pre-massacre view of the 7th Cavalry's camp near Pine Ridge, taken upon arrival from Fort Riley on Nov. 27, 1890, as well as a view of their camp on January 17, made by W.R. Cross. Also from this session, January 17-19, 1891, are views of the Hostile Indian Camp, the graves of some of the dead, a portrait of Crow Dog and Squaw, and one of Lieutenant Taylor and seven of his Indian scouts, all armed with Winchesters. Chief Red Cloud's blind wife is shown inside their home, wrapped in a blanket and warming next to the stove, with a U.S. Flag hanging on the wall behind her. One rare photograph of unknown circumstance shows a patriotic banner next to one emblazoned Presented to Survivors of Wounded Knee Battle / 7th U.S. Cavalry / By Miss Nellie Jackson. Two Northwestern Photo Co. views feature Deputy U.S. Marshal George Bartlett, who was sent to Pine Ridge to negotiate with the Indians to stop the Ghost Dance. One shows him inside his quarters at Pine Ridge preparing dispatches to Washington, and the other, from cracked negative, shows him with Chief Two Strike, Chief Crow Dog, and Chief High Hawk. Other portraits of Indians associated with the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee include: an outdoor shot of Chiefs Kicking Bear, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, and Standing Bear; a studio portrait of Chief No Flesh; a composite of studio portraits of Chiefs White-paints-his-ears, Little Hawk, and White Bull, and an illustration of Little Bighorn; composite of studio portraits of Jack Red Cloud and others; and three group shots of Sioux Indians in regalia. Plus: a heavily soiled view of the Catholic Mission near Pine Ridge; a view of the cattle issue at Rosebud Agency; and a Cosand & Mosser view of unidentified Indians posed on the porch of a home. Condition: Almost all with two metal grommets near the lower edge. Toning, soiling and light stains. Many with chipping at edges and corners of mounts.