John Wetherill lantern slides
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Wetherill, John
- Dates:
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1892
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42 lantern slides
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.106
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains glass lantern slides shot by rancher and explorer John Wetherill (1866-1944). The photographs depict Ancestral Puebloan sites in southwestern U.S., as well as photos of Diné (Navajo) and Ute men and women.
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Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909
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circa 1864-1865
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4 cartes-de-viste (card photographs)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.098
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of four cartes-de-visite portraits of Native American men involved in the Dakota War of 1862. Individuals were photographed by Joel Emmons Whitney between approximately 1864 and 1865. Reprints of these cartes-de-visite were later sold by Whitney and Charles Alfred Zimmerman in their St. Paul, Minnesota studio throughout the...
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Brown, Harold E., 1929-2012
Malewotkuk, Florence Nupok
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1952-1953
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1 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.099
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains materials that were created and collected by Corporal Harold E. Brown circa 1952-1953 and relate to his service in the United States Army when he was stationed in Alaska during the Korean War (1950-1953). The materials include letters from Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) artist Florence Nupok Malewotkuk (1906-1971) to Cpl. Brown and...
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Bromberg, Ann
- Dates:
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1996
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5 photographs (20 x 24 inches)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.088
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 5 gelatin silver prints that were shot by photographer Ann Bromberg on the To'hajilee (Canoncito) Reservation, N.M. in 1996. The photographs depict informal, outdoor portraits of Diné (Navajo) sheepherder Dorothea Begay and include photographs of Begay posing with her sheep herd, walking outdoors, and standing next to an en...
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St. Michael Indian School (Saint Michaels, Ariz.)
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circa 1950-1959
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0.02 Linear Feet
8 Photographic Prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.096
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains photographs that depict students, teachers, and medical professionals associated with the St. Michael Indian School in St. Michaels, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation from circa 1950-1959.
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Sprinkel, Matilda Inez Murphy
- Dates:
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1904-1910
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11 glass plate negatives (4x5 in.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.083
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 11 glass plate negatives photographed by Matilda Inez Murphy Sprinkel, circa 1904-1910. Sprinkel and her husband Frederick Kemper Sprinkel were trading post operators and possibly Indian Agents on the Rosebud Reservation when she shot these photographs. It is possible that some of the photographs may have been shot by Frede...
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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Hamner, Lucile
- Dates:
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1935
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0.25 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.079
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains a U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs report written by Lucile Hamner (1901-1997) documenting the housing conditions in the Lovelock Indian Colony Reservation region in Nevada in 1935.
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Ceough, Richard
- Dates:
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1943-1947
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5 Volumes
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.067
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Richard Ceough papers include five typed and bound reports written by Ceough on his archaeological work in Chiapas, Mexico over four summer seasons from 1943-1946.
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Newell, Louis Belmont
Kenjockety, Frank
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1886-1940
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2 Linear Feet
39 photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.025
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Frank Kenjockety and Louis B. Newell Native American Entertainers collection includes ephemera, documents and photographs from two prominent Native American [entertainers] Frank Kenjockety (Cayuga), also known as "Chief Strong Fox" and Louis Belmont Newell, also known as "Rolling Thunder". Kenjockety's collection contains photographs, ephemera and a small amount of personal records from his career as a circus troupe leader and lecturer from 1909-1940. Newell's collection contains ephemera from his career as a traveling Medicine Man and entertainer including remedy and ointment packaging as well as broadsides and flyers.
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Canisius, Kathryn L., 1906-1943
Canisius, Elizabeth, 1882-1977
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1918-1930
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1 photograph album (7 x 12 in.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.026
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Canisius family photograph album was primarily compiled by Elizabeth Canisius (1882-1977) of Indianapolis, Indiana, and contains photographs made from about 1918 to 1929 by her and various members of her immediate and extended family. Evidently not arranged in chronological order, the photographs document a burgeoning German-American family and...