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Villa of Brule – Vintage Print

Villa of Brule, c1891. — historic photograph
Villa of Brule, c1891.. Historic photograph from the Native Americans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Villa of Brule" shows a Brulé Lakota camp on the Brule River near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, with tipis and horses set against the riverbank. The photograph dates to about 1891, roughly a year after the Wounded Knee massacre of December 1890 drew national attention to the Pine Ridge reservation. Rather than a scene of conflict, it documents the ordinary arrangement of a camp, which is why it appears in Library of Congress resource guides on Native peoples. The print was deposited for copyright, and its albumen paper reflects the photographic methods of the 1890s.

Created / publishedc1891.
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1890-1900.
Notes4780W1 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Another copy published under title: Villa of Brule - the great Indian camp on river Brule near Pine Ridge, S.D. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 171. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 123. Forms part of: the John C. H. Grabill Collection.
SubjectsBrule Indians--Structures--1890-1900. Rivers--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900. Indian encampments--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900. Tipis--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900. Horses--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900. Indians of North America--Structures--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,465 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218709

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