From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 12, 1974:

One of the largest Native American photography collections was purchased this week by Haskell Indian Junior College. The Rinehart Collection of nearly 600 glass negatives depicting the leaders and lives of 36 tribes at the turn of the century was presented to the school today by its previous owner, Royal Sutton, at a Haskell Alumni Association homecoming breakfast. The collection rivaled all other similar works, according to Haskell dean of instruction Bill Burgess. Burgess said only a collection in the Smithsonian Institution was larger. Despite offers from several universities, including Yale, and private collectors, Sutton said he had decided on Haskell for the collection’s new home. “I don’t think there is a more fitting place,” he said. The collection, costing $25,000, had been funded in part by a $5,000 loan from the alumni association. The majority of the photographs had been taken in 1898 in Omaha during a Trans-Mississippi exposition attended by about 500 Native Americans from 36 tribes from the Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. About 90 percent of the negatives of individual portraits and about 75 percent of the negatives on everyday life were still intact, according to Burgess. The negatives were to be cleaned and catalogued, and acetate negatives and prints were to be made before the glass plates went on display at the school. The prints would be used in instruction and would also be available to persons studying Native Americans, Burgess explained.