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Collection: 00670 - George William Hill
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00066
Title: Captain Connell's and Dr. Livingston's quarters, Fort Thompson (D.T.) Stereo
Date: 1877
Creator: Morrow, Stanley J
Inscription/Marks: [inventory] "Captain Connell's and Doctor Livingston's Quarters, Fort Thompson, D.T." (Stereo)
Summary: Dr. Henry F. Livingston stands next to a horse in front of buildings at Fort Thompson (D.T.). In the foreground is the frame of a wagon with two wheels mounted on an axle behind a work horse to the photo left and another pair to photo right with two other wheels leaning against a workhorse. 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. Dr. H. F. Livingston was then agent at Fort Thompson. Dr. Livingston, the agent at Fort Thompson, had a reputation as a large-scale swindler. The agents themselves were not permitted by the government to take over the contracts for wood and hay; they were to issue the contracts to private individuals, who in turn hired the workmen. But as Livingston was desirous of putting the contractor's profit in his own pocket, he picked out from among these Norwegians one of the least quick-witted to act as his contractor. His victim was one Sivert Haaker, a large, rather slow, but altogether kindly fellow, who knew practically no English. Livingston actually held the contract himself and only used Sivert Haaker's name as a dummy to take the contractor's place in the documents. In this way he milked two cows at once and took the profit from both government and workmen. Sivert Haaker was unsuspicious, and willingly signed the documents which Livingston laid before him. After a time some wind of this practice must have reached the officials, for a detective was dispatched to look into the affair. Then it was revealed that Haaker was only a workman, paid by the month, not a contractor. Sivert was unable to explain his position, but he denied having anything to do with the contract. The detective pressed him, and said to him threateningly, "You better confess everything; if you don't, I'll put you in the penitentiary." Sivert was quite innocent, but he was frightened by the detective's threats; he went to his room and put a bullet through his head. On the frontier, however, a life was of no great consequence, especially not the life of an ignorant laborer; and nothing was done about Haaker's death. Livingston was acquitted by the courts; soon afterward, he had to leave the agency, but it is not known whether he was removed for his part in this affair. [Livingston, Henry F.,--1839-?]
Red ID: PH_I_152144 Image ID: 109795 Image Notes: 00670-00066

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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