By Nicole Bieganski, 2013
Title: MS 040 - Fort Belknap Reservation Photographs, 1898-1909
Primary Creator: Crichton
Other Creators: Ethridge
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Arrangement:
The Fort Belknap Reservation Collection (No. 40) is arranged into one series by physical arrangement, as follows:
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
SERIES 1. Photographs, c. 1898-1909, .25 ft (Box ) – Photographs taken by Sumner W. Matteson at the Fourth of July celebrations at the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Also two albums containing photographs from the 1920s and from a Catholic girls’ school between 1908 and 1909.
Date Acquired: 01/01/1985
Subjects: Indians of North America--Photographs
Languages: English
Sumner W. Matteson, (1867-1920/c. 1898-1908),
Sumner W. Matteson broke with his family’s banking traditions to become owner of the Overman Wheel Company which sold bicycles and cameras. After relinquishing management of the Overman, he cycled the country developing his knack for photography and becoming a hunter. The photographs in this collection document Matteson’s stay in Montana during Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Fourth of July Celebrations at Fort Belknap Reservation. In 1906, the editors of Leslie’s Weekly used select photographs from Matteson’s sojourn to try to depict the otherness of Native American culture to mainstream white Americans.
Repository: McCracken Research Library
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Acquisition Source: Robert S. Crichton
Acquisition Method: Donation
Related Materials: Casagrande, Louis B., and Phillips Bourns, eds. Side Trips: The Photography of Sumner W.Matteson 1898-1908. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1983. Print. TR 140 .M288.
Preferred Citation: Fort Belknap Reservation Photographs Collection, MS 40, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West
