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Scalped on the Plains--incidents in Mormon history

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection

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Title
Scalped on the Plains--incidents in Mormon history
Names
Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908 (Photographer)
Johnson Co. (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Copyright claimant)
Johnson, Charles Ellis, 1857-1926 (Copyright claimant)
Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection

Warfare -- American Indian

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1908-10-03 (Inferred)
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC WARF-Ame
Topics
Indians of North America -- War
Soldiers -- American -- Great Plains
Dead persons
Horses
Scalping
Washita Campaign, 1868-1869
Military scouts
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Source note: "Surplus duplicate Library of Congress"--stamped on verso.
Date: "© CL-H-116891: Oct. 3-1908"--written on border.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Description
"A third cut [wood engraving] represents the body of Ralph Morrison, killed and scalped by the Indians near Fort Dodge, Kansas. A correspondent from Fort Dodge sends us the following description...The above is probably the only picture ever taken on the Plains of the body of a scalped man, photographed from the corpse itself, and within an hour after the deed was done. The 7th December [1868] Mr. Ralph Morrison, a hunter, was murdered and scalped by the Cheyenne Indians within less than a mile of this post. Mr. William S. Soule, chief clerk in Mr. John E. Trappan's trading establishment, an amateur artist, availed himself of the opportunity to benefit science and gratify the curiosity of your readers by taking a counterfeit presentment of the body literally on the spot. The pose of the remains is delineated exactly as left by the savages, the horrible contortion of the ghastly features, the apertures left by the deadly bullet, the reeking scalp, the wounds, the despoiled pockets of the victim, all are true to life, anomalous as the presentment of death may seem....The Indians were promptly pursued , and two more of their saddles emptied by our scouts, whose chief, Mr. John O. Austen, is represented on the right of the picture. The officer is Lieutenant Reade, Third Infantry...."--from Harper's Weekly, January 16, 1869.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17960483
Barcode: 33333159484514
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 50a31ab0-c565-012f-e2d3-58d385a7bc34
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Item timeline of events

  • 1836: Creator Born
  • 1908: Creator Died
  • 1908: Issued
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Scalped on the Plains--incidents in Mormon history" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1908-10-03. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0d6a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Scalped on the Plains--incidents in Mormon history" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0d6a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1908-10-03). Scalped on the Plains--incidents in Mormon history Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0d6a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Scalped on the Plains--incidents in Mormon history