Copies of photographs depicting American Indian scouts with various United States Army detachments. The collection includes group portraits of Indian scouts at Fort Grant in 1898; as well as images of Sioux scouts in 1870; Pawnee scouts; Apache scouts at San Carlos, circa 1893; Dakota followers of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock reservation in 1877; a squad of Indian police with Lieutenant Maury Nichols and an Indian agent; and a studio portrait of an Apache scout.
Jacques Noel Jacobsen is a collector and dealer with a focus on US military antiquities and memorabilia.
The collection is open for research.
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This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Cannot be reproduced without written permission of the donor.
Photo Lot R86-39, Jacques Noel Jacobsen photograph collection of American Indian scouts, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Copy prints made by Marc Teatum for Jacobsen, circa 1975.
Originals retained by Jacques Noel Jacobsen, Jr.
Photographs donated by Jacques Noel Jacobsen Jr., circa 1975.
Additional photographs of American Indian scouts can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4423, MS 4536, MS 4659, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 89-8, Photo Lot 90-1, and the BAE historical negatives.
Drawings by scouts can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4653 and MS 7500.