Olga Ross Hannon Photographs

Olga Ross Hannon Photographs, 1944-1947

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Hannon, Olga Ross
Title: Olga Ross Hannon Photographs
Dates: 1944-1947
19441947
Quantity: .4 linear feet
Collection Number: Collection 1126, MtBC, us (collection)
Summary: The Olga Ross Hannon Photographs consist of photographic prints and 35mm transparencies. The images were taken by Hannon or collected by her. Also found in the collection are samples of artwork created by Hannon or Native American Artists, as well as a selection of postcards. These images are primarily of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Chippewa-Cree people of Montana, with an emphasis on their lodge designs.
Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Olga Ross Hannon was born in Moline, Illinois on September 15, 1890. She received her art education at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Students League of New York City, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Snow-Froelich School of Industrial Art. Hannon taught art at the Sheridan, Wyoming high school prior to joining the faculty at Montana State College in Bozeman in 1921. She served as Head of Applied Art at MSC from 1941-1947. She served as Acting Dean of the Division of Household and Applied Arts in 1944-1945. In addition to her teaching duties she organized Delta Phi Delta, the art honorary at Montana State College and served as a national president for eight years. Mrs. Hannon was Montana representative for the American Artists Professional League. She was editor of the art section of the MEA. Mrs. Hannon was a collector of Indian, Oriental and Mexican arts and crafts and a photographed native peoples throughout Montana and other western states. She spearheaded a project for the preservation of the designs on the painted lodges of the Blackfeet Indians by means of the silk screen process. Hannon died in Wickenburg, Arizona on May 4, 1947.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Hannon images have been divided into two boxes: photographic prints and 35mm transparencies. The 435 prints in Box 1 are (for the most part) photographs taken by Hannon herself or collected by her and have been individually numbered. These numbered prints have been placed in thirty-nine numbered folders that have broad topical labels. Among these photographs can be found samples of artwork created by Hannon or Native American artists, and a large selection of postcards. Most of the postcards pertain to Indian tribes of the American southwest and have been placed in folders 14 through 39. The 35mm transparencies consist of 270 images that have not been placed in numbered folders. As a result, the slides themselves have been assigned individual image numbers that are prefaced with the word "slide." The titles were taken from notes written on the cardboard slide mountings. These images are primarily of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Chippewa-Cree people of Montana, with an emphasis on their lodge designs.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Original 35 mm slides and photographic prints of Montana Native American peoples and their lodges created by Olga Ross Hannon were donated to Montana State University by her friend, Jessie Wilber of Bozeman, Montana on January 28, 1977. This collection incorporates images previously designated as Collection 2252.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2017 September 12

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Assiniboine Indians, Images #1-2
1/2	Mostafa Adl and the Iranian Delegation at Glacier National Park, Images #3-24	June 30, 1945
1/3	Blackfeet Indians, Images #25-55
1/4	Blackfeet Indians, Images #56-70
1/5	Blackfeet Indians, Images #71-145
1/6	Cheyenne Indians, Images #146-151
1/7	Glacier National Park, Images #152-154
1/8	Various tribes, Images #155-168
1/9	Crow Indians, Images #169-218
1/10	Various tribes, Images #219-227
1/11	Parflesch designs, Images #228-231
1/12	Heilman photos, Images #232-243
1/13	Miscellaneous artwork, Images #238-243
1/14	Acoma, Images #244-256
1/15	Acoma Laguna, Images #257-264
1/16	Apache, Images #265-267
1/17	Chimayo, Images 268-273
1/18	Cochiti, Images #274-281
1/19	Firjoles, Images #282-288
1/20	General, Images #289-291
1/21	Hopi, Images #292-300
1/22	Isleta, Images #301-304
1/23	Mesa Verde, Images #305-310
1/24	Moqui, Image #311
1/25	Navajo, Images #312-334
1/26	Pueblo, Images #335-338
1/27	Puye, Images #339-340
1/28	San Dia, Image #341
1/29	San Ildefonso, Images #342-354
1/30	San Juan, Image #355
1/31	San Philippe, Images #356-360
1/32	Santa Clara, Images #361-369
1/33	Santa Domingo, Images #370-380
1/34	Santa Fe, Images #381-384
1/35	Tesuque, Images #385-389
1/36	Taos, Images #390-400
1/37	Taos, Images #401-410
1/38	Taos, Images #411-420
1/39	Taos, Images #421-435
box-slide
2/1	Blood Encampment	July 1944
2/2	Blood Encampment	1944
2/3	Blackfoot Encampment	June 1944
2/4-5	Blood Encampment	July 1944
2/6	General Tipis Heart Butte, Montana	July 1944
2/7	Tipis Browning, Montana	1942
2/8-9	Tipis Browning, Montana	1944
2/10	Tipis Little Badger, Montana	July 1942
2/11	General Tipis Heart Butte, Montana	1944
2/12	Blackfoot Sacred Lodge (right)	June 1945
2/13	Blackfoot men learning to get poles for Sun Dance Lodge	July 1945
2/14	Blackfoot men learning to get Sun Dance Lodge poles	July 1945
2/15	Bringing poles and brush for Sun Dance Lodge Little Badger, Montana	July 1942
2/16	Tipis Blackfeet	1945
2/7	Sun Dance Lodge Heart Butte, Montana	1944
2/18	Part of Weasel Tail Blackfoot	July 1945
2/19	Blackfoot Sun Lodge	July 1942
2/20	Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana	1944
2/21	Buffalo skull behind Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Mintana	July 1945
2/22	Inside Sun Dance Lodge
2/23	Blessing people inside Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana	1944
2/24-25	Chewing Black Bones at Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana	1944
2/26	Chewing Black Bones blessing people in Sun Dance Lodge Browning, Montana	1944
2/27	Chewing Black Bones in Sun Dance Lodge Blackfoot	July 1945
2/28	Blackfoot Sweat Lodge Browning, Montana	July 1945
2/29	Blackfoot Sacred Lodge	July 1945
2/30-31	Blackfoot Medicine Women	July 1945
2/32	Indians and Tipis at Little Badger	1942
2/33	Setting up tipi Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/34-35	Pole arrangements Blackfoot	July 1945
2/36	Tipi rings ten miles south of Browning, Montana
2/37	Blood Medicine Bundle
2/38	War Banner Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/39	Tipi lining Made by Julia Wades in the Water Browning, Montana	1944
2/40	Tipi door panel - Julia Wades in the Water tipi Browning, Montana	1944
2/41	Painted lodge lining Owner: Mr. R. H. Willcomb
2/42	Unidentified
2/43-44	Jerky drying Browning, Montana	1944
2/45	Blackfoot Travois	1942
2/46-47	Stickgame Browning, Montana	July 1942
2/48	Game of sticks Heart Butte, Montana	July 1944
2/49	Blackfoot Grass Dance	1942
2/50	Grass Dance Browning, Montana	1944
2/51-52	Blackfoot Grass Dance	July 1942
2/53-56	At a War Dance Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/57	Crazy Dogs Browning, Montana	1944
2/58	At a War Dance Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/59-63	At a War Dance Browning, Montana	1944
2/64	Indians on horseback Browning, Montana	1942
2/65	Group of Blackfeet Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/66	Group of Blackfoot at ceremony	July 1, 1945
2/67	Indian ceremony Little Badger, Montana	July 1942
2/68	Blackfoot Ceremony	July 1, 1945
2/69	Group of Blackfoot	July 1, 1945
2/70	Blackfoot Chief	July 1942
2/71	Blackfoot Give Away	July 1942
2/72	Indian on horse Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/73	Indians on flatbed Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/74	4th of July Parade Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/75	4th of July Parade Browning, Montana	July 4, 1942
2/76	Blackfoot Browning, Montana	July 4, 1944
2/77	Blackfoot on horse Browning, Montana	July 4, 1944
2/78	Blackfoot (group sitting at ceremony)	1945
2/79	Blackfoot (group of chiefs sitting at ceremony)	1942
2/80	Blackfoot give away in old Sun Dance Lodge	July 1945
2/81	Give away Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/82	Peter Whiteman Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/83	Joe Spotted Eagle Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/84	Pete Whiteman and son; Joe Spotted Eagle and son Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/85	Eugene Head Carrier, Raymond Aims Back Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/86	Albert Mad Plume Heart Butte, Montana	July 1944
2/87	Sipeakumi (Night Howler) Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/88	Mrs. Frank (Kate) Many Fingers, Blood Indian
2/89	Blackfoot with horse	July 1942
2/90	Marie Bear Medicine Blackfoot	1942
2/91	Woman and child in front of tipi Browning, Montana	July 1942
2/92	Blackfoot woman	1942
2/93	Joe New Robe Heart Butte, Montana	July 1945
2/94	Mr. and Mrs. Big Face Chief - Bloods of Brockett, Alberta, Canada Browning, Montana	1944
2/95	Mr. Swims Under Little Badger, Montana	1942
2/96	Fred Tail Feathers at All Star lodge Browning, Montana	1944(?)
2/97	Fred Tail Feathers, Blood Reserve, "All Star" tipi used by John Eagle Ribs, Browning, Montana	1944
2/98	Antelope tipi Mrs. Bob Rider, Blood Indian
2/99	Bear tipi Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian
2/100-101	Bear tipi (detail) Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian
2/102	Bear tipi Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian
2/103	Bear tipi (detail) Mrs. Rough Hair, Blood Indian
2/104	Beaver or Badger tipi Cecil Black Boy Blackfoot	July 1942
2/105	Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider Blackfoot	June 1945
2/106	Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider Blackfoot	1944
2/107	Rear of Beaver Tail tipi Middle Rider - Blackfoot	June 1945
2/108	Big Rock tipi Minnie Aims Baack Heart Butte, Montana	1944
2/109-110	Yellow Buffalo tipi James White Calf Browning, Montana	1944
2/111	Yellow Buffalo tipi (detail)
2/112-113	Yellow Buffalo tipi James White Calf Browning, Montana	1944
2/114	Buffalo Head tipi Mud Head Browning, Montana	1944
2/115	Buffalo Head tipi (detail) Mud Head Browning, Montana	1944
2/116	Buffalo Hoofs tipi Mrs. Black Plume, Blood Indian
2/117	Buffalo Hoofs tipi belongs to Mary Ground Blackfoot	1945
2/118	Cow Head Tipi (detail) Frank Choate, "Red Paint" Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/119	Cow Head tipi Blood Indian	1944
2/120	Cow Head tipi (detail) Blood Indian	1944
2/121	Crow tipi (detail) Henry and Isabel Bear Medicine Browning, Montana	1944
2/122	Crow tipi Henry and Isabel Bear Medicine Browning, Montana	1944
2/123-124	Curlew tipi (detail) Mark Wolf Child, Blood Indian
2/125-126	Curlew lodge Mark Wolf Child, Blood Indian
2/127	Elk or Deer tipi Dan Bull Plume Browning, Montana	1944
2/128	Rear of Deer or Elk lodge Blackfoot	June 1945
2/129	Tipis at Little Badger, Montana	July 1942
2/130	Elk or Deer and Person tipi Browning, Montana	1944
2/131	Donkey tipi (detail) Mary Rides at the Door given to Julia Wades in the Water	1944
2/132	Eagle tipi Blackfoot	July 1942
2/133-134	Eagle tipi (detail) Wolf Robe, Blood Indian
2/135	Eagle tipi Wolf Robe, Blood Indian
2/136	Medicine Bundle with Eagle Lodge Wolf Robe, Blood Indian
2/137	Deer or Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning, Montana	1944
2/138	Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning, Montana	1944
2/139	Elk lodge John and Mary Mountain Chief Blackfoot	July 1945
2/140	Deer or Elk tipi John Mountain Chief Browning, Montana	1944
2/141	Fish tipi Tom Many Guns Browning, Montana	1944
2/142	Mountain Sheep tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian
2/143	Goat tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian
2/144	Goat tipi (detail) Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian
2/145	Mountain Sheep Tipi (detail) Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian
2/146	Goat tipi Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian
2/147	Monument to Chief Red Crow (Goat tipi in background) Frank Red Crow and family
2/148	2 tipis next to monument to Chief Red Crow Frank Red Crow
2/149	Tipi given to Frank Red Crow, Blood Indian, by Chewing Black Bones
2/150	Blood Indian tipi
2/151	Medicine Pipe tipi Mrs. Shoots First Browning, Montana	July 1944
2/152	Moon tipi Owned by Chief Coward Browning, Montana	1944
2/153	Moon tipi Blackfoot	1944
2/154	Moon tipi Owned by Chief Coward Browning, Montana	1944
2/155	Medicine Bundle at Moon Lodge Crow Spreads His Wings
2/156	Medicine Bundle at Moon Tipi Crow Spreads His Wings
2/157-158	Single Circle Otter tipi (detail) Chewing Black Bones Browning, Montana	1944
2/159	Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones Browning, Montana	1944
2/160	Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones Blackfoot	July 1942
2/1610	Single Circle Otter tipi Chewing Black Bones Little Badger, Montana	July 1942
2/162-163	Orange and blue Otter tipi Deer Rider, Blood Indian
2/164-165	Medicine bundle at Otter tipi Deer Rider, Blood Indian
2/166	Person lodge Little Badger, Montana	1944
2/167	Person tipi Mrs. Swims Under Heart Butte, Montana	1944
2/168	Person tipi Fish Wolf Robe Browning, Montana	1944
2/169	Person tipi (detail) Fish Wolf Robe Browning, Montana	1944
2/170	Person tipi Fish Wolf Robe Browning, Montana	1944
2/171-172	Plume tipi Charlie Iron Breast Browning, Montana	1944
2/173	Prairie Chicken Lodge Josephine Turtle Blackfoot	July 1945
2/174	Prairie Chicken tipi Josephine Turtle Browning, Montana	1944
2/175	Prairie Chicken and Deer tipis Blackfoot	July 1942
2/176	Tipi Albert Mad Plume Heart Butte, Montana	1944
2/177	3 tipis Little Badger, Montana	1943
2/178-180	Snake tipi Willie Scraping White, Blood Indian
2/181-183	Snake tipi (close up) Willie Scraping White, Blood Indian
2/184	Red Snake tipi Yellow Kidney (Ensima) Browning, Montana	1944
2/185	Red Snake and Moon tipis Browning, Montana	1944
2/186-187	Winter tipi Crow Spreads His Wings, Blood Indian
2/188	Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides, Blood Indian
2/189	Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides
2/190	Tipi Chief Shot Both Sides, Blood Indian
2/191	Yellow Tipi George Dog Child
2/192	Yellow tipi George Dog Child, Blood Indian
2/193-194	Yellow tipi Bull Head (No. Piegan), Blood Indian
2/195	Tipi Bruised Head, Blood Indian
2/196	Yellow tipi Charlie Good Rider, Blood Indian
2/197	Tipi, Little Badger, Montana	July 1942
2/198-199	Moccasin Flats, Browning, Montana	March 1944
2/200	Tipis in front of Glacier Park Lodge	1942
2/201	Blackfeet tipis in front of Glacier Park Lodge	Summer 1940
2/202	Under Moose tipi (detail) - property of Glacier Park Blackfoot	July 1, 1945
2/203	Tipi, Glacier Park	July 2, 1945
2/204	Under Moose tipi (detail) property of Glacier Park	July 2, 1945
2/205	Group of Blackfoot Indians to greet San Francisco delegation	July 2, 1945
2/206	Theodore Last Star and 2 Feathers in Hair
2/207	Lt. Commander Mandley being inducted into tribe, Glacier Park, Montana	July 2, 1945
2/208	Group of inductees with tribal members, Glacier Park, Montana	July 2, 1945
2/209	Paul Boncour of France being inducted into tribe, Glacier Park, Montana	July 2, 1945
2/210	Group of inductees with tribal members, Glacier Park, Montana	July 2, 1945
2/211	Sir A. Ramaswami Modalier, India inducted into tribe by Running Sun
2/212	Sol Bloom of New York inducted by Buffalo Chief and Theodore Last Star
2/213-218	Rocky Boy encampment	June 1945
2/219-220	Rocky Boy Town	June 1945
2/221-231	Rocky Boy Sun Dance Lodge	1945
2/232-236	Rocky Boy Sacred Lodge	1945
2/237	Baptise Sammatt
2/238-241	Baptise Sammatt tipi
2/242-244	Baptise Sammatt tipi (fish detail)
2/245-247	Pete Ferel tipi
2/248-250	Pete Ferel tipi detail
2/251-254	Mrs. Left Hand Boy tipi
2/255-257	Mrs. Left Hand Boy tipi (detail)
2/258	Paint skin owned by Reverend Petter of Lame Deer	1944
2/259-262	Mrs. Lucy Real Bird of Lodge Grass	August 1944
2/263-266	Picture Writing Rock in N.W. North Dakota	September 1944
2/267-268	Martha Hensley, Henry and Edgar Syverod at Writing Rock
2/269-270	Ceremonial Ring near Writing Rock

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