15 x 11 in. album with leather boards and gilt page edges containing 25 salt print photographs by Joel Whitney. The first two are 7 x 9.25 in. prints of New Orleans, including one of dozens of steamboats loading cotton in New Orleans, and one of a New Orleans cemetery, followed by a photograph of the bridge over the Mississippi at St. Paul. Remaining photographs are Whitney’s famous studies of the Sioux Indians, many of whom were involved in the 1862 Sioux Uprising, as well as his images of the Chippewa and Winnebago peoples of Minnesota.
These images, which measure 3.5 x 4.5 in. to 5.5 x 7.5 in. – much larger than the CDV-sized images which are usually seen – include: a view of three Indians overlooking Minnehaha Falls; Ta-Tanka-Nazin (Standing Buffalo); Cut Nose; Ma-Za-Oo-Nie (The Little Bird Hunter); Paha-Uza-Tanka (The Great Scalp Taker); Han-Ye-Tu Was Te (Beautiful Night); Anpetu-Sapa-Win (Black Day Woman); Te-He-Do-Ne-Cha (One Who Forbids His House); and Old Bets, among several others, plus a view of Winnebago cherahs.