National Anthropological Archives

Lora Hadley photographs of the Southwest, circa 1910-1920

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.84
Creators:
Hadley, Lora
Dates:
circa 1910-1920
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
7 Prints
silver gelatin
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Photographs made by Lora Hadley during her healthcare work in the Southwest, which document pueblos, churches, and the pueblo remains at Puye, New Mexico, and include an image of a cross left during a funeral procession in the northern mountains of Mexico. Extensive descriptive notes are written on the versos, possibly by Hadley.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note
Lora Hadley was a United States government healthworker educated in psychology and sociology at the State University of Iowa (BA, 1916) and the University of Pennsylvania (MA, 1917). She worked as an assistant for the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station in 1918. From about 1922-1925, Hadley was a psychologist and researcher for the Bureau of Child Welfare in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and served as acting director for part of this time. In 1925 Hadley was appointed Instructor of Sociology and Dean of Women at New Mexico State College (now New Mexico State University). She coauthored "Farm Children: An Investigation of Rural Child Life in Selected Areas of Iowa" with Bird T. Baldwin and Eva Abigail Fillmore (1930).

Administration

Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
Donated by Mildred Mott Wedel, whose mother knew Lora Hadley.

Using the Collection

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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 84, Lora Hadley photographs of the Southwest, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Taos Indians Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pueblo Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Puye (N.M.) Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mexico Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Taos (N.M.) Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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