“Creations” from Peter Wuebker, currently of Hanalei, Kauai, Hawaii

Change of Address Card: Moved to the Country Postcard by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: Log Cabin Postcards by pjwuebker	Historical Value Home – Funny Change of Address Post Cards by pjwuebker
Change of Address Card: Boat and Hot Tub Postcard by pjwuebker	Change of Address Postcard: Country Home by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: Guestroom Post Cards by pjwuebker
Change of Address Card: Appliance Postcard by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: We’re Moving Postcards by pjwuebker	Move In Ready – Funny Change of Address Postcards by pjwuebker
Funny Change of Address Card Seaside Home Post Cards by pjwuebker	Funny Change of Address Card – Long Lost Camper Post Cards by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: New Windows Postcard by pjwuebker
Change of Address Card: New Homestead Post Cards by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card #22 Postcard by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: We’re Moving 3 Post Card by pjwuebker
Change of Address Card – Tent Post Cards by pjwuebker Create Post cards at zazzle	Change of Address Card: We’re Moving 2 Postcard by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: Boat in Back Post Cards by pjwuebker
Change of Address Postcard: Fenced Yard by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: Houseboat Post Card by pjwuebker	Change of Address Postcard: True Trailer Home by pjwuebker
Change of Address Postcard: Colorful New Address by pjwuebker	Second Level Porch – Funny Change of Address Postcards by pjwuebker	Quiet Neighbors Funny Change of Address Postcard by pjwuebker
Wonderful Garden – Funny Change of Address Greeting Card by pjwuebker	Change of Address: Underground Bunker Greeting Cards by pjwuebker	Change of Address Card: Large Garage by pjwuebker
Change of Address: Gated Community Cards by pjwuebker	Huge Porch – Funny Change of Address Greeting Cards by pjwuebker	Funny Change of Address Card – Nice Chimney by pjwuebker

These are retro-style posters, not reproductions of vintage travel posters.

Multnomah Falls & Lodge, Oregon Travel Poster by LanternPress	Yosemite National Park – Half Dome Travel Poster by LanternPress	Don’t Feed The Bears – Yellowstone National Park Poster by LanternPress
Jackson Hole, Wyoming – Skier and Tram Poster by LanternPress	Skier Carrying Snow Skis – Lake Tahoe, California Poster by LanternPress	Hula Girl – Waikiki, Hawaii Diamond Head Poster by LanternPress
Women Fly Fishing – Montana Poster by LanternPress	Downhhill Snow Skier – Whistler, BC Canada Print by LanternPress	Mount Rainier – Paradise Inn Lodge – Travel Poster by LanternPress
Cowboy & Horse – Wyoming Poster by LanternPress	Alaska – Bush Plane and Fishing Posters by LanternPress	Orca Whales #1 – Victoria, BC Canada Posters by LanternPress
Fly Fishing Scene – Snake River, Idaho Print by LanternPress	Big Foot walking through Golf Course Posters by LanternPress	White Water Rafting – Snake River, Idaho Poster by LanternPress

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“The Indian in his mode of warfare is more than the equal of the white man, and it would be practically impossible with white soldiers to subdue the Chiricahuas in their own haunts… In fighting them we must of necessity be the pursuers, and unless surprised by sudden and unexpected attack, the advantages are all in their favor… The first great difficulty to be met is to locate them, and this must be done by Indian scouts…” – General George Crook¹

Titled Old Geronimo Catcher,  the subject in this c1904 photograph by Edward S. Curtis is likely one of the Apache scouts who participated in the hunt and capture of Geronimo. (Library of Congress image)

¹  The Indian Scouts, With Special Attention to the: Evolution, Use, and Effectiveness of the Apache Indian Scouts by Dan L. Thrapp

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Additional Information

Apache (Just a sample of what’s available on a Google search on “Apache tribe”)

• Indians.org
• Wikipedia
• White Mountain Apache Tribe
• Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
• Yavapai-Apache Nation
• Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
• Lipan Apache tribe of Texas
• Jicarilla Apache Nation
• Texas State Historical Association

American Indians

• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)
• and more from Google search on American Indian

Moki pueblos, Arizona (between 1898 and 1905)
Detroit Publishing Co. no. “51208”;
photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Library of Congress image

Launched as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s, The Detroit Photographic Company, later the Detroit Publishing Company, obtained exclusive right for use of the Swiss “Photochrom” process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market. In 1897, landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson, joined the firm, adding Jackson’s thousands of negatives to the photographic inventory.

While looking for more information on this image, I found a larger digital version, from which the image above was cropped and colorized. The image background is also altered on the photochrom version, making it more dramatic.

The title inked on the glass plate and penciled on the negative envelope reads:

Moki pueblo, patient toil

Image is from an 8 x 10 in. glass negative archived at the Denver Public Library.  It’s attributed to William Henry Jackson.

Description: “View of a Native American (Hopi) woman and a boy on the Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona. The woman wears a dress and a shawl and has a fabric strap balanced on her head to support a fabric bundle with probably a baby inside. She holds a cup in her hands. A boy wears a shirt and pants with suspenders. Rocky mesas are in the distance.”

It turns out that both images were in the Detroit Photographic inventory as early as 1899.

An 1899 Detroit Photographic catalog lists Moki Pueblo. Patient Toil with the number 05710, the same title and number inked on the black and white glass plate.  It is included in Part II which includes plain photographs and hand colored photographs.  The other photo, with the catalog number 51208, is included in Part I under Aäc Color Photography. Describing it, the catalog says, “The Aäc Process of Color Photography is the only successful means yet known of producing directly without the aid of hand color work, a photograph in the colors of nature.” Aäc is another term for photochrom.

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Hopi

• The Hopi Tribe: Loloma (Hello) – tribal website
• Wikipedia
• Hopi Cultural Preservation
• Hopi Cultural Center, Motel and Restaurant
• Hopi –  Colorado Plateau – Land Use History of North America
• The Hopi Foundation
• Shungopavi Village on Facebook
• Restoration
• Experience Hopi – The Upper Village of Moenkopi & Moenkopi Developers Corporation (MDC)
• Encyclopedia Britannica

American Indians

• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)
• and more from Google search on American Indian

 Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.
Photo created about 1905 by Edward S. Curtis.
Library of Congress image

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• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)

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A pair of old pictures, rather than being worth the proverbial thousand words each, leave more questions than answers.

Who was this man? What tribe? Who was his family?  Where did they live? Why was he imprisoned? How long was he in? to mention just a few.

Half-length portrait, facing front;
Photo created about 1905 by Edward S. Curtis.
Library of Congress image.

Ben Long Ear was born about 1875.  On December 16, 1886, age 13, he arrived at the famed Carlisle Indian Industrial School where he was supposed stay 5 years, until he was 18.  He was sent home, departing Carlisle September 17, 1890, according to his Carlisle Descriptive and Historical Record of Student. Follow-up information shows that he was a farmer in 1910 and 1913.

In the 1893, Annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, Benjamin Long Ears is recorded as a cooper’s apprentice.

A Spokane Daily Chronicle article, January 10, 1906, relates an “elopement” of Ben Long Ear, son of Chief Big Medicine, with Mrs. Crooked Arm, both married to others. In related articles in other papers, United States authorities are said to be looking for the runaways. (Other sources indicate that he was Big Medicine’s son-in-law, husband of Grace Big Medicine.)

Indians Who Eloped Charged With Bigamy

Cody, Wyo. April 2 – Ben Long Ear and Mrs. Crooked Arm, the Crow buck and squaw who eloped from the Crow agency in January, have been returned to the reservation by officers.

When they left the agency, Mrs. Crooked Arm took her little papoose and $300 of her husband’s money.  Crooked Arm said he didn’t care for the money, but wanted his papoose back.  Mrs. Long Ear, who was deserted, says she still loves her husband and will gladly take him back.

The couple will be tried on the charge of bigamy.  Long Ear is ill from exposure in evading arrest.

In trouble with federal authorities in 1906 and a farmer in 1910 and 1913. What happened after that?

Ben Long Ear,  Inmate #2454, 1914
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, Washington
National Archives image.

Did this man commit crimes that actually harmed others?  Were his offenses a result of indigenous people running up against the morality of the newcomers to the land?  Was he railroaded so that others could take some advantage?

It appears that the answer may be murder.

Joseph discusses how Indian policeman, including Fire Bearer, were expected to control alcohol during prohibition cattle rustlers, such as Garvin, convicted murderers, such as Ben Long Ears, and horse thieves, such as Cherokee Cherry Adams. (Summary of oral interview of Joseph Medicine Crow)

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Crow People

• Crow Nation – Official Site of the Apsaalooke’ Nation
• Crow Nation (Wikipedia)
• Montana Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs
• and more from Google search on Crow Indians

American Indians

• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)
• and more from Google search on American Indian

Big Head, head-and-shoulders portrait, turned left.
Photo created about 1905 by Edward S. Curtis.
Library of Congress image

(tribe not identified)

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• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)

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We-Ton, half-length portrait, facing front.
Photo created about 1900 by Edward S. Curtis.
Library of Congress image

(tribe not identified)

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• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)

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Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, peace pipe on right.
Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress image) c. 1905
Tribe not identified.

Portrait of a Man in Partial Native Dress with Peace Medal and Pipe
Copyright 03 Oct 1905
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland
(reference page)

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• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)

and more from Google search on American Indian