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to anyone studying those tribes. A 20-page outline of the subject 

 matter of the collection has been prepared, and further information 

 will be provided on request. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS 



Requests by scholars, publishers, and the general public for etlmo- 

 graphic photographs from the Bureau's collection continue to in- 

 crease. The year's total of 604 purchase orders and written and 

 personal inquiries concerning photographs is considerably greater 

 than last year's total of 504, and the 1,983 prints distributed during 

 the year through purchase, gift, and exchange represented a marked 

 increase over the 1,208 of the previous year. 



As a result of new lists describing specific portions of the photo- 

 graphic collections that are frequently being prepared, much infor- 

 mation about available photographs is gradually being distributed, 

 wdth a corresponding increase in the distribution of photograplis. 

 At present about 110 lists have been prepared describing series of 

 photographs relating to individual tribes or subjects. Since these 

 are in typed form only, they are not distributed as complete sets, but 

 copies of the relevant ones are sent in response to specific inquiries. 



The Bureau's files of photographs are constantly growing through 

 the generosity and thoughtfulness of interested individuals who 

 either lend their personal collections for copying or present them as 

 gifts. For example, a series of 160 photographic prints relating to 

 the Northern Cheyenne Sun Dances of 1958 and 1959, and to the 

 moving and opening of the Sacred Buffalo Hat bundle in 1958 and 

 1959, were made from negatives taken and lent by Mrs. Margot 

 Liberty of Birney, Mont. The Bureau's set of prints is available for 

 reference by students, but until 1970 purchase orders for copies will 

 bo referred to Mrs. Liberty who retains the negatives. 



Arrangements were made by Dr. William C. Sturtevant for bor- 

 rowing and copying 69 photographs relating to the Florida Seminole 

 talcen during the first quarter of the 20th century. They w^ere from 

 the following collections in Florida: Collier Development Corpora- 

 tion, Everglades ; the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, Uni- 

 versity of Florida, Gaines^^lle; the AVillson-Cantrell Collection, Uni- 

 versity of Miami Library, Miami; and the personal collections of 

 Frank A. Robinson, Robinson Galleries, Miami; Dr. Charlton W. 

 Tebeau, Miami; and IMrs. M. K. Ashworth, Coral Gables. 



Daguerreotypes of Eleazer Williams, Mohawk, and John O'Brien 

 Skenondough, probably an Oneida, made by Mathew Brady in 1853 

 and owned by the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, New 

 York, were lent for copying through the courtesy of Miss Helen 

 Bolman, librarian of the Society. 



