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Title: Philip Reade Collection of Native American Photographs by William S. Soule
Dates: 1867-1869
Collection Number: photCL 189
Creator/Collector:
Miller, Fred E., 1868-1936;
Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908
Extent: 25 photographs in 2 boxes; prints 13 x 21 cm. (5 x 8 in.) and smaller. See itemized list under "Additional collection guides."
Repository:
Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Abstract: This is a collection of mostly studio portraits of Native Americans from the Midwestern and Southwestern United States taken
during the American Indian Wars. There are also views of their homes and camps on reservations.
Language of Material: English
Access is granted to qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact the Curator of Photographs at the Huntington
Library.
All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Photographs. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Huntington as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Philip Reade Collection of Native American Photographs by William S. Soule. Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Given by Philip Hildreth Reade. Date unknown.
Philip Hildreth Reade (1844-1919) was a Brigadier General in the United States Army and fought against the Plains Indians
in the American Indian Wars in the late 1800s.
Biography/Administrative History
William Stinson Soule was born in Maine in 1836. At the age of 27, he served in the Union Army during the Civil War but was
wounded at the Battle of Antietam, resulting in a discharge. In 1865, Soule worked at a photographic gallery in Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, before heading west to improve his health, taking his photography equipment with him.
In 1869, Soule traveled to Camp Supply in Oklahoma; it was there he photographed Indian prisoners of war from the American
Indian conflicts in the Great Plains. Later that same year, he traveled to Fort Sill, which served as an Indian agency and
a military control headquarters for various Plains Indians. Here, Soule photographed studio portraits of members of the Plains
tribes, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, from 1870 to 1874.
Around 1874, Soule left Fort Sill and traveled to Boston, where he opened and ran a photography studio until his retirement
in 1902. Soule died in Boston at the age of seventy-two in 1908.
Scope and Content of Collection
The photographs in this collection depict members of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, Osage, and Wichita tribes
during the American Indian Wars; Native American camp sites on Indian reservations; chieftains; a medicine man; native prisoners
of war; native women and children; braves and their families; tipis; native families; and native scouts for the U.S. army.
Notable portraits include Lone Wolf, Satank, Chief Stumbling Bear, and Chief Powder Face.
William S. Soule is the photographer of the first 23 photographs, and Fred Miller is the photographer of the last two.
Arapaho Indians
Cheyenne Indians
Comanche Indians
Crow Indians
Indian reservations
Indian scouts
Indians of North America—Great Plains
Kiowa Indians
Osage Indians
Tipis
Wichita Indians
Lone Wolf, Kiowa Indian
Satank, Kiowa Chief, 1810-1871
Stumbling Bear, Kiowa chief
Colorado
Indian Territory
Kansas
Llano Estacado
Montana
Oklahoma
Texas
Photographs
Portraits