+ o - ^
previous next

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Woman carrying a child on a cradleboard
Names
Thompson, Peter Julian (Photographer)
Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection

Indians -- North America -- Plains

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1905
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC INDIA-Nor-P
Topics
Indians of North America -- California
Cradleboards
Leather garments
Indian baskets
Paiute Indians
Studio props
Infants
Genres
Portrait photographs
Ethnographic photographs
Portraits
Photographs
Notes
Content: Written on image: "Thompson's Indian study, No. 3." Written on border: "c1905."
Content: Identification of tribe based on a postcard version of the image published ca. 1909 by Edward H. Mitchell with the title "Piute Indian woman and papoose". See image ID 826705 for the previous photograph in this series ("No. 2"). Identification of photographer based on the curvilinear border of the latter image, a device peculiar to the work of P. J. Thompson.
Source note: Photographs : duplicates of copyright deposits, received by exchange 1957, 1958, 1959. [s.n.]) Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division, Donor.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver printing-out paper prints
Extent: 1 photographic print : sepia ; 21 x 16 cm. (8 x 6 in.)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17620571
Barcode: 33333159344478
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ccb93500-c554-012f-18d1-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1905: Issued
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Woman carrying a child on a cradleboard" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1905. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1b1c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Woman carrying a child on a cradleboard" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 2, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1b1c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1905). Woman carrying a child on a cradleboard Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1b1c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1b1c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 | title= (still image) Woman carrying a child on a cradleboard, (1905) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=October 2, 2026 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Woman carrying a child on a cradleboard