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Frank Rinehart 
Yellow Magpie (Araphahoe) 
[Attendees of the 1898 Indian Congress] 
1898-1899 
  
Platinum print 
Boston Public Library, Print Department 
File name: 09_03_000045 
  
 
LL/45536 
  
Summary: Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to photograph the 1898 Indian Congress, part of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. More than five hundred Native Americans from thirty-five tribes attended the conference, providing the gifted photographer and artist an opportunity to create a stunning visual document of Native American life and culture at the dawn of the 20th century. Although the portraits are posed and artistically lighted in his studio, they have a candid intimacy that allows his subjects individuality and dignity, a quality not shared by most 19th-century ethnographic photography. 
 

 
  
 
  
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