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Collection Summary
Collection: 00022H - Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00143
Title: Waite Chief Justice of U. S. Supreme Court poses with a large group
Date: ca. 1885
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: On the back are names which relate to the figures in the image.
Summary: A group of people are gathered beneath a wide canvas shelter and photographed by D.F. Barry. In the front is a row of chairs, in which are seated six women, Indian and white, and two bearded men in dress clothes. A small girl stands at the right, in hat and layered dress. Behind are several staggered rows of mostly men, both Indians dressed in ceremonial regalia or in uniforms or in ordinary suits, and white men in suits. at the very back a woman stands with her head covered in a blanket or shawl. Numbers on the front relate to the names of five of those photographed here. A woman, seated and in a light colored dress, is identified as Mrs. Barnes. Her husband is directly behind her. Next to Mrs. Barnes sits Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Morrison Waite, and next to him is Major McLaughlin. Judge Francis and Col. Clough. are in this cluster as well. "Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was an attorney, judge, and politician from Ohio. He served as the seventh Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 to his death in 1888. During his tenure, the Waite Court took a narrow interpretation of federal authority related to laws and amendments that were passed during the Reconstruction Era to expand the rights of freedmen and protect them from attacks by vigilante groups such as the Ku Klux Klan." (Wikipedia) Same image as 00022H-00052.
Red ID: PH_I_141945 Image ID: 102911 Image Notes: 00022-H-00143

Collection: 00022H Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Date: 1871-1890

Summary: Includes photographs captured by David F. Barry of Northern Plains Indians and other significant people, places, and events in Dakota Territory and the American West.

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