[NATIVE AMERICAN] Rothrock "Ration Day San Carlos" Stereoview

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Oct 10, 2025

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  George Herman Rothrock (1843-1924), photographer. Ration Day San Carlos. Stereoview on orange cardstock mount. Arizona: G.H. Rothrock, ca 1880s. Photographer's imprint to verso with printed "Arizona Scenery" title and ink-inscribed view title and number. 

   

  An outdoor view showing masses of huddled Apaches seated in groups before a distant plain building. Three men stand before the seated group in the foreground, likely Indian Agents or other United States Government officials. In 1872, the Chiricahua Apache, the Yavapai, and other surrounding Apache bands were removed from their original homelands and placed in the newly established San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation (Tsékʼáádn). General George Crook's deliberate policy of antagonizing various Apache tribes against one another, combined with the Federal Government's indifference and corruption, led to brutal and difficult conditions for the residents. 

   

  George Rothrock, who moved to California in 1854, became one of the great photographers of the West, capturing Native Americans at the height of the Apache conflicts, the development of Arizona Territory, and frontier life. After his first gallery in Bakersfield, California (1870-1875), he relocated to the Arizona Territory. Occasionally itinerant, he operated galleries in Yuma, Prescott, Phoenix, Tempe, and Bisbee. (Mautz, p. 46). 

   

  [Native Americans, Native American History, American Indian, Indian History] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards, Stereographs]

   

   

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