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Collection: 00670 - George William Hill
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00065
Title: Ida Rees store house, Fort Thompson (D.T.) Stereo
Date: 1868
Creator: Morrow, Stanley J
Inscription/Marks: [inventory] "Ida Reese Store Houses, Fort Thompson, D.T." (Stereo)
Summary: Three men stand in front of covered storage for Ida Rees. One man rests his left foot on top of tree trunk lieing on ground, the others stand on either side of him in front of a fence at the front of the storage building. Fort Thompson was built at the mouth of Soldier Creek on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation 25 miles north of Chamberlain. That fort opened in 1864 and closed in 1867. Sternwheel packet boat built by Elizabeth (Pittsburgh?), Pennsylvania in1863. Operated between 1863 and 1873. Owners: Thomas M. Rees and James H. Reese, Pittsburgh, and Captain Ezekiel Gordon. Captain Ezekiel Gordon (master, 1863); Captain Rees Rees (master); Captain Joseph Brown (master, 1866-1867); James Rees (master, spring 1868); Captain Thomas Stubblefield (master, fall 1868); Judge John T. Smith (master, 1870). Used on Ohio River; Allegheny River; Mississippi River; Trinity River; Sabine River; Missouri River. First home port was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ida Rees was known for taking the first all oil cargo out of Pittsburgh in November, 1865. She was in Fort Benton, Montana in the spring of 1868, then in the fall she was taken to Galveston, Texas. Then ran the Sabine river to New Orleans until she sank in the Sabine River, Texas, February 28, 1873.
Red ID: PH_I_152143 Image ID: 109794 Image Notes: 00670-00065

Collection: 00670 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: George William Hill
Date: 1868-1882

Summary: This collection contains seventy-five stereograph scenes photographed by Stanley J. Morrow between 1868 and 1882, six portraits of North American Indians by C. L. Hamilton, Fort Randall (D.T.), and two stereographs by Benjamin Franklin Upton from his series of Indian Portraits and Views. The Morrow stereographs includes views of the Badlands, signers of the Peace Treaty between the Rees, Gros Ventres and Mandans of Fort Berthold and the Sissetons (Sioux) of Fort Totten (D.T.), Yankton and Missouri River scenes and steamboats, Fort Totten and vicinity, Fort Abercrombie, Fort Stevenson, Fort Buford, Fort Berthold, Fort Rice, Fort Sully, Fort Thompson and vicinity, the Cheyenne Agency, Grand River Agency, and Santee Mission. The Upton stereographs show Indian village scenes and portraits. The C. L. Hamilton photographs are mostly full length portraits of Indians who were interned at Fort Randall (D.T.).

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