Title: MS 078 - Dr. Edward H. Latham Photograph Collection
Abstract
Correlation of MS 78 Dr. Edward H. Latham Photographs, P.78.2.1 to P.78.2.111, to plates within Mick Gidley's book With One Sky Above Us: Life on an American Indian Reservation at the Turn of the Century, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. Captions from the Plates are noted in the description of the Plates.
Administrative/Biographical History
Dr. Edward H. Latham (1843-1928) was the agency physician on the Sioux, Spokane, and Colville Indian Reservations, arriving at the latter in 1890. He was an amateur photographer and created a record of life on the reservation.
Previously misattributed to Edward S. Curtis due to false stamp on the back of print images.