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Plains Collection

Background imagePlains Collection: Elephants, c1867. Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

Elephants, c1867. Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye
Elephants, c1867. Three Asian elephants graze on a desolate plain at sunset; the warm tones of the sky are repeated in the landscape

Background imagePlains Collection: The Three Chiefs-Piegan, Printed 1900. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The Three Chiefs-Piegan, Printed 1900. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Three Chiefs-Piegan, Printed 1900

Background imagePlains Collection: Equus zebra (Mountain zebra), 1777-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon

Equus zebra (Mountain zebra), 1777-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon
Equus zebra (Mountain zebra), 1777-1786. Cape Bergzebra (Equus Zebra Zebra); with Rhenish (Rijnlandse) scale

Background imagePlains Collection: Hippotragus leucophaeus (Bluebuck), 1777-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon

Hippotragus leucophaeus (Bluebuck), 1777-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon
Hippotragus leucophaeus (Bluebuck), 1777-1786

Background imagePlains Collection: Khoikhoi and Settlers on Cape Plain, 1786. Creator: Jan Brandes

Khoikhoi and Settlers on Cape Plain, 1786. Creator: Jan Brandes
Khoikhoi and Settlers on Cape Plain, 1786. On the left a farmer (Boer) in a covered wagon returning from Cape Town to his farm. The man walking next to the cart is probably a slave

Background imagePlains Collection: View of the landscape east of Nijmegen, 1815-1824. Creator: Derk Anthony van de Wart

View of the landscape east of Nijmegen, 1815-1824. Creator: Derk Anthony van de Wart
View of the landscape east of Nijmegen, 1815-1824. Floodplains. On the left in the distance is Ooij

Background imagePlains Collection: The Lydian Plain near Sardis, Asia Minor (Turkey), 1878. Creator: Harald Jerichau

The Lydian Plain near Sardis, Asia Minor (Turkey), 1878. Creator: Harald Jerichau
The Lydian Plain near Sardis, Asia Minor (Turkey), 1878

Background imagePlains Collection: Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: 'In Search of a New Home - A Scene in the Far West, 1891. Creator: John Charlton

'In Search of a New Home - A Scene in the Far West, 1891. Creator: John Charlton
'In Search of a New Home - A Scene in the Far West, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Background imagePlains Collection: Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Acoma, New Mexico area views, between 1899 and 1928

Background imagePlains Collection: Chi: Musashi Plain, from the series 'Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures

Chi: Musashi Plain, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu...c1772/73 Creator)
Chi: Musashi Plain, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)", Japan, c. 1772/73

Abandoned farm on the edge of the Great Plains, Roswell (vicinity), New Mexico, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Roswell (vicinity), New Mexico. Abandoned farm on the edge of the Great Plains

Background imagePlains Collection: Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma. "The record of the Great Plains is to a great extent a record of settlement and abandonment." J. Russell Smith

Background imagePlains Collection: County road between potato fields, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

County road between potato fields, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. County road between potato fields

Background imagePlains Collection: On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy

Background imagePlains Collection: On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy

Background imagePlains Collection: On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the plains west of Fresno, California

Background imagePlains Collection: On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy

Background imagePlains Collection: County road between potato fields, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

County road between potato fields, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. County road between potato fields

Background imagePlains Collection: Roping gray wolf, Cowboys take in a gray wolf on 'Round up, ' in Wyoming, 1887. Creator: John C

Roping gray wolf, Cowboys take in a gray wolf on "Round up, " in Wyoming, 1887. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Roping gray wolf, Cowboys take in a gray wolf on "Round up, " in Wyoming, 1887. Five cowboys on horses roping a wolf

Background imagePlains Collection: Round-up scenes on Belle Fouche [sic] in 1887, 1887. Creator: John C. H. Grabill

Round-up scenes on Belle Fouche [sic] in 1887, 1887. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Round-up scenes on Belle Fouche [sic] in 1887, 1887. Cowboys and cattle on range

Background imagePlains Collection: Picket Pin, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Picket Pin, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Picket Pin, c1907. Full-length portrait of Dakota man dressed in loin cloth holding buffalo skull

Background imagePlains Collection: Red Dog (Shunka Luta), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Red Dog (Shunka Luta), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Red Dog (Shunka Luta), c1907. Head-and-shoulders portrait of Dakota man

Background imagePlains Collection: Slow Bull, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Slow Bull, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Slow Bull, c1907. Dakota man standing outside tipi gazing upward

Background imagePlains Collection: Saliva, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Saliva, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Saliva, c1907. Dakota man with calumet kneeling by altar inside tipi

Background imagePlains Collection: Two Charger Woman, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Two Charger Woman, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Two Charger Woman, c1907. Full-length portrait of Brule Woman

Background imagePlains Collection: Red Elk Woman, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Red Elk Woman, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Red Elk Woman, c1907. Half-length portrait of Dakota woman

Background imagePlains Collection: The Clowns, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The Clowns, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Clowns, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927

Background imagePlains Collection: Priests passing before the pipe-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Priests passing before the pipe-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Priests passing before the pipe-Cheyenne, c1910. Group of Cheyenne people, most seated in a semicircle during sun dance ceremony, woman in foreground is holding pipe, buffalo skull in foreground

Background imagePlains Collection: Sun dance in progress-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Sun dance in progress-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sun dance in progress-Cheyenne, c1910

Background imagePlains Collection: Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Photo shows three Arikara men, members of the medicine fraternity, dancing, painted to represent ducks and holding rushes

Background imagePlains Collection: Offering pipe to the skull-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Offering pipe to the skull-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Offering pipe to the skull-Cheyenne, c1910. Woman offering pipe to buffalo skull, during sun dance ceremony

Background imagePlains Collection: Gray Dawn-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Gray Dawn-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Gray Dawn-Cheyenne, c1910. Sun dance lodge with Cheyenne people standing inside

Background imagePlains Collection: Crazy dancers-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Crazy dancers-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Crazy dancers-Cheyenne, c1910. Cheyenne dancers around stick tripod

Background imagePlains Collection: Before the final journey-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Before the final journey-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Before the final journey-Cheyenne, c1910. Cheyenne people gathered in open area, for Sun Dance ceremony; several tents and hills in background

Background imagePlains Collection: Chiefs in the Sun Dance parade-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Chiefs in the Sun Dance parade-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Chiefs in the Sun Dance parade-Cheyenne, c1927. Several Cheyenne chiefs on horseback in a row in an open field

Background imagePlains Collection: The Wolf, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The Wolf, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Wolf, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927

Background imagePlains Collection: The plains of the Dakota-Sioux, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The plains of the Dakota-Sioux, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The plains of the Dakota-Sioux, c1905. Three Sioux Indians of horseback on plains with rock formation in background

Background imagePlains Collection: Yellow Bone woman, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Yellow Bone woman, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Yellow Bone woman, 1908, c1908. Indian family: woman and man in native dress holding baby

Background imagePlains Collection: Morning attack, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Morning attack, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Morning attack, c1907. Dakota Indians on horseback on plains

Background imagePlains Collection: In the land of the Sioux, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

In the land of the Sioux, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
In the land of the Sioux, c1905. Three Sioux Indians on horseback facing front by pond on plains

Background imagePlains Collection: Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Photo shows Arikara medicine ceremony with four night men dancing



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