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The John P. Cook photograph collection contains 9 photographs associated with U.S. Army officer John Pope Cook, including 7 images given to Cook by Dakota Territory-based Indian trader Charles Philander Jordan.

The John P. Cook photograph collection contains 9 photographs associated with U.S. Army officer John Pope Cook, including 7 images given to Cook by Dakota Territory-based Indian trader Charles Philander Jordan.

Among the photographs that were given to Cook by Jordan are a heavily retouched cabinet card studio portrait of Sitting Bull and a stereograph view on a cabinet card-sized mount captioned "No. 45 Spotted Tail's Tepee," both taken by photographer W. R. Cross; a studio group portrait of Red Cloud and Charles P. Jordan on a mount of Washington, D.C.-based photographer John Nephew bearing the verso inscription "To my most esteemed friend Gen. John Cook. C. P. Jordan July 9/89"; and five studio portrait photographs taken by John Alvin Anderson of six of Jordan's children born to his Lakota wife Julia Walks First Jordan (1859-1913; a niece of Red Cloud's, also known as Winyan Hoaka, True Woman, Weah-Wash-Tay, The Beautiful One), identified through verso inscriptions as "Mary J. Jordan," "Everard Cady Jordan," "Collins Custer Jordan," "Edwin E. & Wm Ward Jordan," and "Ella Adaline Jordan." The date and location of the portrait of Red Cloud and Jordan may point to the possibility of that image having been produced while the subjects were in Washington, D.C., during the 1889 Sioux Land Commission negotiations.

Also present are two photomechanically-illustrated postcards that date to the early 20th-century. One postcard bearing an advertisement for the Northern Pacific Railway was postmarked June 11, 1915 and addressed to John P. Cook's daughter Nina Cook in Frontier, Michigan, with the message "Dear Nina: I am on my way wish you were with me love Fred." The second postcard bears a profile view of the U.S.S. Nebraska and appears to have been postmarked August 1, 1910 and was addressed to Cook at his residence in Ransom, Michigan, with the message "Dear cousin sorry to make you all wait so long for ans (sic) to your kind letters but can't be helped this is a photo of one of the ships with the Atlantic fleet."

The Liberty Bell Tour photograph album contains approximately 580 photographs depicting the journey of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, and back again in 1915.

The Liberty Bell Tour photograph album contains approximately 580 photographs depicting the journey of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, and back again in 1915.

The album (40 x 28 cm) has black paper covers and 305 pages, 14 of which do not contain any photographs. The photographs are generally arranged in chronological sequence and depict loading the Liberty Bell onto parade floats and train cars, celebratory parades, gathered crowds, and individuals and groups posing with the Liberty Bell. Numerous pictures include captions referencing the locations in which they were taken. The album also contains two small maps, each showing one of the routes of the cross-county trips that the Liberty Bell took, as well as landscape photographs of scenes in the western United States. Notable persons photographed with the Liberty Bell include Thomas Edison, members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and groups of Native Americans in Cayuse, Oregon. Landscapes pictured include views of Wyoming, Pulpit Rock, Bear River Canyon, Mount Shasta, Shasta Springs, Horseshoe Curve, Royal Gorge, the Rockies, Salt Lake, and Feather River Canyon.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition photograph album contains 53 images that document the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, from April to December, 1904.

The album (14 x 19.5 cm) has brown faux-leather cloth covers and black paper pages. Photographs include images of different monuments and buildings (including international, state, and trade buildings), fairgrounds scenes, and various exhibitions including Filipino, Chinese, and Native American human zoo villages as well as the "Ancient Locomotives" and "U.S. Life Saving Exhibit." Also of note are two photographs of "Festival Hall at night."

The Lukens-Parry family carte de visite album contains 49 studio portrait photographs primarily related to the Lukens and Parry families of Chester, Pennsylvania. The Lukens and Parry families were both prominent members of the Pennsylvania Quaker community.

The Lukens-Parry family carte de visite album contains 49 studio portrait photographs primarily related to the Lukens and Parry families of Chester, Pennsylvania. The Lukens and Parry families were both prominent members of the Pennsylvania Quaker community.

The album (14.5 x 12 cm) has embossed brown leather covers, metal clasps, and "Album" stamped in gold on the spine. A taped-in note close to the front of the album reads "my relatives & friends of years ago - Sarah Kinderdine Lukens later Mrs. Wm. W. Downing - Mar 20th 1950." The note as well as numerous inscriptions identifying most individuals represented in the album were all added by Sarah Kinderdine Lukens Downing in 1950.

The Maples family photograph album contains 44 photographs and 18 clippings related to a group of families most likely from Michigan.

The Maples family photograph album contains 44 photographs and 18 clippings related to a group of families most likely from Michigan.

The album (26.25 x 20 cm) has embossed leather covers and contains 15 tintypes, 13 cartes de visite, and 16 snapshots overall as well as 18 clippings. The majority of the photographs are studio portraits of men, women, and children while the clippings range in substance from poetry and professional updates to obituaries. The people represented in this album may possibly be members of the Maples-Keller-McFarlane families.

The Marguerite H. Voll photograph album includes 87 photographs documenting family activities and various events in Plymouth, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago, Illinois.

The Marguerite H. Voll photograph album includes 87 photographs documenting family activities and various events in Plymouth, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago, Illinois.

The album (28.5 x 35 cm) has black cloth with “Photographs” stamped in gold on the front cover. Images include portraits of the Bade, Schram, and Fiedler families as well as views of parades in Chicago (including a Barnum & Bailey Circus parade), group portraits of the Plymouth Hook and Ladder bicycle team, the Sheboygan County Fair, natural landscape scenes, cars, trains, farming, and photographic reproductions of sentimental art. Of particular note is a portrait of Marguerite Bade riding a floor sweeper as an infant in 1909.

The Matthilde Ittel photograph album contains 122 photographs, 19 postcards, and 26 pieces of ephemera and mainly includes snapshots of people, landscapes, and buildings in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario.

The Matthilde Ittel photograph album contains 122 photographs, 19 postcards, and 26 pieces of ephemera and mainly includes snapshots of people, landscapes, and buildings in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario.

The album (18 x 27 cm) has black cloth covers with "Photographs" stamped on the front. Many of album compiler Matthilde Ittel’s family, friends, and colleagues are mentioned and pictured in this album, including William Baldwin Clipsham, Nettie E. Geyer, Freda Cloud, Mary Rieger Ittel, and Jessie Evelyn Ittel Kiel as well as staff of the W. E. Terhune Lumber Company. Numerous portraits are present throughout the album, many of which have been altered through cutting. Two images show a woman whose face has been entirely cut out, while many other images are cut along the lines of a person’s figure. Several images have had color added. The postcards primarily consist of images of destinations that the album creator visited such as the Bowery in New York City and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while the ephemeral items include a hotel card, a small wooden oar, and typed notes containing humorous writings and social commentaries.

Images of note include pictures of Ittel wearing a Gibson Girl hairstyle coupled with a quote regarding the advantage of women not having to wear trousers, portraits of Ittel’s mother Mary and sister Jessie, two real photograph postcards of cats, a postcard of the merchant ship Tillie Covert, postcards and notes from a trip to Ontario in 1908, photographs and postcards relating to a 1909 trip from Rochester to Montreal and West Point, several photographs of a 1911 trip to Philadelphia and the Delaware Water Gap, and a staged photograph located on the back inside cover captioned "An Actual Operation For Appendicitis.”

The Michigan, Ohio, Illinois family photograph albums consist of a two-volume set containing 112 studio portraits of people taken in the midwestern United States.

The Michigan, Ohio, Illinois family photograph albums consist of a two-volume set containing 112 studio portraits of people taken in the midwestern United States.

Volume one (27 x 21.25 cm) has green fabric covers with a plush velvet heart in the center and faux bark pages. Contents consist of eight cartes de visite and 28 cabinet card portraits of men, women, and children.

Volume two (27 x 21.25 cm) has a maroon leather cover and contains a total of 76 studio portraits. The majority of photographs are cartes de visite and cabinet cards while there are also some tintypes present. Of particular note are images of men in military and fraternal uniforms.

The Mills family photograph album consists of approximately 200 images and 6 loose photographs documenting a trip to London, Ontario, as well as the daily life of a well-to-do family in Marysville, Michigan.

The Mills family photograph album consists of approximately 200 images and 6 loose photographs documenting a trip to London, Ontario, as well as the daily life of a well-to-do family in Marysville, Michigan.

The album (28 x 38 cm) has leather covers with the stamped initials “HEM” of the compiler Hannah Elizabeth Mills. Contents include photographs of the Marysville “Lower Mill,” residences belonging to Hannah’s brother Myron, numerous portraits of people including Hannah's youngest sister Hally, two photographs of Hally from when she had diphtheria in 1891, “Hal” in a darkroom likely in the Mills family home, people playing tennis, the Mills family cemetery plot, views of a trip to Stag Island, Ontario, an apparently ill person lying on a cot, and several views documenting a trip to what may be a relative’s home in London, Ontario. Also present are images from a winter "In the Lumber Woods, 1891", an excursion to Niagara Falls in 1894, the town of Pinckney, Michigan, following a tornado, and wedding gifts for Mary Margaret Mills and Walter Jasperson Hopkins.

The Nelson Miles European travel photograph album contains approximately 127 photographs documenting a trip to southern Europe undertaken by U.S. Army officer Lieutenant-General Nelson Appleton Miles and John Brooks Henderson, Jr., primarily in order to observe the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.

The Nelson Miles European travel photograph album contains approximately 127 photographs documenting a trip to southern Europe undertaken by U.S. Army officer Lieutenant-General Nelson Appleton Miles and John Brooks Henderson, Jr., primarily in order to observe the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.

The album (28 x 37 cm) has green cloth covers with the word "Photographs" stamped on the front. The inside of the front cover bears the inscription "Personal Travel Album of General Nelson Miles" as well as a loose color print from 1888 depicting Lt. Gen. Miles in full campaign dress. Contents consist of images of Athens and Lamia in Greece, a shot of Lt. Gen. Miles and other officers at rest, a series of photographs that appear to have been taken through binoculars, and views of Castle Angelo and the Coliseum in Rome, Pompeii, an excavation site, the Doge’s Palace and San Marco Square in Venice, Vienna, and Corfu.