Title: Peter Rindisbacher Drawings and Watercolors
Inclusive Dates: circa 1826-1834

Creator:

• Rindisbacher, Peter, 1806-1834

Call Number: PH 509

Quantity: 1.2 cubic feet of drawings and watercolors (7 works in 2 flat boxes), and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Drawings and watercolors attributed to Peter Rindisbacher, a Swiss-born immigrant whose artwork documented Native American and frontier life in the early American and Canadian West. The collection includes two wildlife drawings, a portrait of Winnebago Chief Isaac Winnesheek, and four watercolors of Native American hunting scenes.

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Previously issued call numbers PH 509A, PH 509 B, PH 3-3216, PH 3-3215, PH 5-5756, PH 5-5757, PH 5-5758, PH 5-5759.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph00509

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Rindisbacher was born in Switzerland in 1806. He immigrated with his family to Canada in 1821 and by 1826 had moved to southwestern Wisconsin.

The photographs in the collection are of works attributed to Rindisbacher held by institutions other than the Wisconsin Historical Society. Society staff gathered these reproductions in the 1950s.

Use Restrictions

Copyright Restriction: Copyright to the photographs is not held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

PH 509	Series: Drawings and Watercolors
Box   1 Item   509.1	Pattashgas of Wisconsin, drawing Note: WHi(X313)2087: Black and white copy negative WHi(X3)38215: color transparency WHi Image ID: 8494
Box   1 Item   509.2	Prairie Wolf, drawing Note: WHi(X3)26031: Black and white copy negative WHi(X3)38135: color transparency WHi Image ID: 57369
Box   1 Item   509.3	Isaac Winnesheek, Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Chief, watercolor miniature Note: WHi(X313)2477: 5x7 copy negative WHi(D489)9783: 8x10 negative, not found 2004 October 11 WHi(X3)31655: color negative WHi(X3)31654: transparency WHi Image ID: 1861
Box   1 Item   509.4	Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes, watercolor Note: WHi(X3)1494: copy negative (copied 1951 April 11) WHi(X3)38136: color transparency WHi(X3)40028: color negative WHi Image ID: 3883
Box   2 Item   509.5	Indian Spearing Beaver, watercolor Note: WHi(X3)1493: black and white copy negative WHi(X3)36725: color transparency WHi(X3)40027: color copy negative WHi Image ID: 3884
Box   2 Item   509.6	Indian Hunting Buffalo, watercolor Note: WHi(X3)1495: copy negative WHi(X3)38307: color transparency WHi Image ID: 8496
Box   2 Item   509.7	Indian Duck Hunting, watercolor Note: WHi(X3)1496: copy negative WHi(X3)38137: color transparency WHi(X3)21849: color copy negative, discarded 1982 WHi Image ID: 8497
	Series: Photographs of Rindisbacher Works	⇧
Box   3 Folder   1	Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Box   3 Folder   2	E. Eberstadt Collection
Box   3 Folder   3	Hudson Bay Company, Winnipeg, Canada
Box   3 Folder   4	McGill University Museums, Montreal, Canada
Box   3 Folder   5	Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Box   3 Folder   6	Public Archive of Canada
Box   3 Folder   7	McCord Museum, Montreal, Canada
Box   3 Folder   8	West Point Military Academy, New York
Box   3 Folder   9	Wilson Collection