Description: NOTE: Shipping is estimated as USPS Ground Advantage, insured. If actual shipping is more than one dollar less than estimated, I will refund the difference. Two vintage, original large card-mounted photos. Each card is 5 x 8 inches and is titled in ink beneath the image, "Indian Camp Vermillion Lake Minn." However, one has the contradictory ID of "Leach Lake" [Leech Lake] on the verso. One photo is of three women standing at a bark-covered lodge. Fish are drying on horizontal poles, and fishing nets are hung up to dry. The older woman's staff has a stone pipe bowl mounted on it. On the verso is the penciled notation, "On Reservation at Leach Lake Minn. Centre Indian said to be 114 yrs old". The other photo shows twelve young Ojibwe children and two or three Ojibwe men in hats. Behind and next to them are ten or eleven Anglo men in hats. A bark-covered wigwam is at right, and in the right foreground is a birchbark canoe, apparently under construction, beneath the framework of a bark lodge. The verso has the penciled notation, "Reservation at Tower," which corroborates the location at Vermilion Lake. The notations on the versos appear to be in the same hand. The verso of each card has the stamped name of the photographer, which is difficult to read. It may say "B. A. Newton, Photographer". I find no information on a photographer with that name, nor any photographer on the Minnesota Historical Society's list of known photographers of the state whose name is a possible match. I find obscure references to one or two men named B. A. Newton in Saskatchewan and Ontario, both around 1940 and one a farmer at that time, but with no evidence of their ages or earlier professions. One is a query page in RootsWeb with reference to Hallonquist, Saskatchewan, which was founded in 1923: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ndeddy/queries.htm The other is a list of members of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in the Province of Ontario: https://dr.library.brocku.ca/bitstream/handle/10464/3277/grandlodge1940onta.pdf.txt;jsessionid=47C0595AC5F667F1B27FB6CCD52B9AC5?sequence=3 Dimensions of each: 5 x 8 inches Condition is represented fairly well by the scans. The color of both images is a more neutral brown than the output from my scanner, which renders them slightly reddish. The photo of the three women is in better condition, and is a stronger image with some marginal fading and very light wear to the surface. The photo of the children exhibits more fading, and the dark spots look like foxing under magnification. The surface shows slightly more wear than the other card. I do not accept returns. I provide thorough descriptions and good photos. Please refer to my feedback for evidence of the accuracy of my eBay listings for 25 years.
Price: 250 USD
Location: Tucson, Arizona
End Time: 2024-12-09T19:44:19.000Z
Shipping Cost: 15 USD
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Culture: Native American: US
