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Stanley J. Morrow stereographs.
- Source :
- ST 003
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Stanley J. Morrow was a prominent photographer in the Dakota and Montana territories who operated from 1868 through 1882. This collection of seventy stereographs contains scenes photographed by Morrow between 1868 and 1881. It includes views of Morrow's home and studio in Yankton, D.T., military expeditions including views of General Crook's 1876 expedition against the Lakota Sioux and images of George K. Sanderson's cleanup of Little Bighorn Battlefield (1879), views of Fort Keogh (ca. 1878), and Indian portraits and village scenes.<br />This collection of seventy stereographs contains scenes in the Dakota and Montana territories captured by Morrow between 1868 and 1881. It includes images of the Little Bighorn Battlefield including the marking of graves (1879); Crow, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Gros Ventre villages and portraits of individuals; views of soldiers returned from General Crook's expedition, including a soldier re-enacting shooting a horse for food and captured Sioux Indians (1876); the Morrow family, home and studio in Yankton, D.T., and steamboats (including the Helena) and an ice gorge from the Great Flood of 1881; officers quarters and troops at Ft. Keogh; the Gates of the Mountains, Prickly Pear Canyon, and other scenes in the vicinity of Helena, Montana.
- Subjects :
- Cheyenne Indians.
Dakota Indians.
Crow Indians.
Indians of North America.
Steamboats South Dakota Yankton.
Cheyenne.
Dakota.
Crow.
Bateaux à vapeur Dakota du Sud Yankton.
Cheyenne Indians.
Crow Indians.
Dakota Indians.
Indians of North America.
Steamboats.
Yankton (S.D.)
Fort Keogh (Mont.)
Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)
Montana Fort Keogh.
Montana Little Bighorn Battlefield.
South Dakota Yankton.
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- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- ST 003
- Notes :
- Stanley J. Morrow was born in Richland County, Ohio, on May 3, 1843, and moved to Wisconsin early in his childhood. In 1861, he joined the 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry as a drummer. Morrow was then transferred into the Veteran Reserve and was stationed at Point Lookout Prison in Maryland as an assistant to renowned Civil War photographer Matthew B. Brady. Brady instructed Morrow in photography and the wet plate process, which Morrow used throughout his career. Upon exiting the war, Morrow married Isa Ketchum, and the couple moved to Yankton, Dakota, around 1868. Morrow established a photography gallery there and taught Isa the photographic process. When Morrow was away, Isa ran the gallery to fund his photographic expeditions. In 1876, Stanley Morrow met soldiers returning from General George A. Crook's expedition in pursuit of the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne. Morrow photographed soldiers reenacting scenes from the starvation march back to the Black Hills and from the Battle of Slim Buttes, and photographed Sioux warriors captured in battle. Morrow became post photographer at Fort Keogh in 1878 and later that year opened a gallery at Fort Custer. In April 1879, while working as photographer at Fort Custer, he accompanied Captain George K. Sanderson and a company of the 11th Infantry on an expedition to Little Bighorn Battlefield to clear the field of animal bones and remark the graves of fallen soldiers. Stanley Morrow returned to Yankton in 1880, photographing local events including the Great Flood of 1881. When Isa fell ill in 1882, the couple moved to Florida. Stanley J. Morrow died in Dallas, Texas, on December 10, 1921.
- Accession number :
- edsoai.ocn607560810