Category:Photographs by C.L. Hamilton

Mr. C. L. Hamilton, photographist, worked in South Dakota from about 1865 to about 1875. His images include many Native Americans and treaty photographs which followed 1865 treaties with several tribes.

South Dakota State Historical Society, Report and Historical Collections, Vol. IX (1918) - p. 463 [dateline] "Fort Randall, D. T., Nov. 6, 1865. Mr. C. L. Hamilton, photographist, is here from Fort Sully, where he has been engaged in securing pictures of the Indian Chiefs who have signed treaties of peace and those who declined so doing, copies of which -will be forwarded to Washington." https://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/882/charles-hamilton-photographist