Big Medicine's house 1899. Smithsonian Institution Notes: Negative 56285, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. University of Montana, Museum and Northwestern Historical Collection, copy negative number 54-576K. Caption typed on paper attached to photograph: '...lumber...Custer buildings...for use of Dist....' Subject identified by Crow Indians through Barney Old Coyote, Spring, 1969.
Creator
Fred E. Miller
Genre (Short List)
photographs
Type
Image
Date Original
1899
Subject (LCSH)
Crow Indians--1890-1900; Log cabins; Miller, Fred E., 1868-1936;
56285 Smithsonian. Fred E. Miller (1868-1936) accepted a position in 1898 as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Crow Reservation in southeast Montana. For almost 14 years, Miller lived among and photographed the Apsa?alooke (Crow) people, learned to speak the language, and was officially adopted into the nation.
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Crow Indian Reservation, Montana
Digital Collection
Billings - Images of Places
Digital Format
image/tiff
Digitization Specifications
Items were scanned with a Kodak ngenuity 9125 or a Panasonic KV-57075C at 300 DPI using Papervision Capture Scan software.
