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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Buffalo Soldiers photographs
Identifier/Call Number: 7150
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/3435
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear Feet
1 pamphlet binder
Date (inclusive): 1890-1910
Language of Material:
English
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Container: 1
A collection of five photographs of African American Buffalo soldiers. One of the frequent assignments of Buffalo Soldiers
was to assist the early frontiers of the Western United States. These African American soldiers contributed greatly to pathfinding,
road and trail construction, building telegraph lines, and mapping out much of the frontier for homesteaders. The collection
includes a photographic postcard depicting Buffalo Soldiers alongside white soldiers escorting a wagon train; a tintype of
a Black soldier wearing his field hat and posing with three white civilians; a photograph of an all-Black regiment in a sketching
class to learn the necessary skills of topographical survey; a photograph of a Buffalo Soldier in uniform and boots; and a
stereoview showing a group of 14 African American Buffalo Soldiers in uniform. These photographs were likely taken before
World War I, during the American Indian Wars or the U.S.-Mexican Border Wars.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Max Rambod Inc., August 7, 2023.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Buffalo Soldiers photographs, Collection no. 7150, Regional History Collection, Special Collections,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African American pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Archival resources
Photographic postcards
Photographs
Postcards
Stereoscopic photographs
Tintypes (prints)
United States. Army -- African American troops -- Photographs