Photos - Standing Rock Agency - North Dakota

STANDING ROCK AGENCY - NORTH DAKOTA

11). (North Dakota) Fisk, Frank Bennet. STANDING ROCK AGENCY. A collection of photo postcards documenting Fort Yates, North Dakota which was the tribal headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe during the 1890’s. Most of this rare selection of 14 silver print cards carry the imprint of F.B. Fiske on the verso and or captions in the negative. Eleven of the 14 are printed on photo-postcard paper and with the exception of one measure 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches.

Along with the photograph of the artist F.(rank) B.(ennet) Fisk are six photographs related to the Catholic Church in Fort Yates, including one interesting image of the Catholic Societies Meeting House and another showing the “graves of Indian police killed in the Sitting Bull fight - on Dec. 15, 1890.” There are two views of “old Yates,” one showing the officers’ quarters and another showing, “the remains of the old corner house. There are views of the Lingren Hotel and one the Old Galpin House, a historical landmark, located 8 miles from Fort Yates. There are two photos, not printed on postcard paper and without Fiske’s credit stamp. One shows a model constructed by “Mrs. Holding Eagle,” presumably a respected Mandan seed-bearer named Scattered Corn who married a Hidatska man known as Holds the Eagle or Holding Eagle. The other non-credited photograph is captioned “Rock scene on south side of Killdeer Mountain. On the back of the photographers photo is written taken by his wife Mrs. F. Fiske in 1928.

All Photos are in very fine condition.