Title: "People escaping from the
Indian massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at dinner on a prairie". Photo shows the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Right half of stereograph published by Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn. This photo is actually Mixed Bloods who were rescued by non hostile Indians. The girl in the foreground wrapped in the striped blanket is Elise Robertson, the sister of Thomas Robertson a mixed blood who acted as a intermediary between the hostile and non hostile Indians and the whites.
Date
St. Paul : Whitney Gallery, [1862].
Source
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Digital ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a13425
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a13425. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-66542 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-29727 (b&w film copy neg. of right half of stereo) LC-USZ62-11024 (b&w film copy neg. of right half of stereo incl. strip of left half) JPEG from TIFF image URL:
http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a13000/3a13400/3a13425u.tif. Card #: 2003688966 Call #: LOT 7138 [item] [P&P]
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Captions
The people depicted in the photo are white refugees, refer to the following source : Wingerd, Mary Lethert, and Kirsten Delegard. North Country: The Making of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), Plate 96.
Title: "People escaping from the
Indian massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at dinner on a prairie" Right half of stereograph published by Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washing
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