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Digitized Content Elmer E. Higley collection
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Creators:
Higley, Elmer Ellsworth
Dates:
bulk circa 1900-1968
Size:
534 Lantern slides
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.228
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection consists of 534 glass lantern slides depicting Indigenous groups throughout North America. It also includes a small number of publications written by Elmer E. Higley and others about Native Americans and missionary work during the early twentieth century.

Digitized Content Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico
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Creators:
Cordry, Donald Bush
Dates:
1933-1940
Size:
93 Photographic prints
9 Negatives (photographic)
24 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.008
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

Images consist mostly of portraits of the indigenous people in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. The collection primarily contains images of Wikarika (Huichol) people, but includes images of the Purepecha (Tarasco), Guerrero Nahua, Chinantec [Chinantla], Zoque, Otomí (Otomi), Tzotzil Maya, Yoreme (Mayo) and Zapotec peoples.

Digitized Content Landy R. Hales Papers
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Creators:
Hales, Landy R., 1889-1972
Dates:
1908 - 1969
Size:
5.5 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0906
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers document Landy R. Hales (1889-1972), an inventor and commercial artist who designed window and interior store displays, posters, children's games, and puzzles primarily from 1920s to 1930s in New York City and Baltimore. Of significance is Hales's work for Macy's Department Store. The papers consist of correspondence, patents, business records for several of Hales's companies, photographs, drawings/sketches, prototypes, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Motion Pictures
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1893-1969
Size:
2.96 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 8 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Motion
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Motion Pictures forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

Digitized Content John Reed Swanton photographs relating to Southeastern Native Americans
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Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
circa 1900s-1910s
Size:
175 Lantern slides
415 Prints (duplicates not counted, silver gelatin)
601 Negatives (nitrate)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.76
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs of Southeastern Native American people, homes, ceremonial grounds, and events made circa 1900s-1910s by John Reed Swanton. The lantern slides include images of southeastern rivers and bayous and historical maps. Additionally, there are a number of slides with notes and charts relating to linguistic comparisons.

Digitized Content Walton B. Haydon photographs of Cree, Ojibwa, and Inuit peoples, circa 1883
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Creators:
Haydon, Walton B.
Dates:
circa 1883
Size:
11 Prints (albumen)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.150
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Vignetted portraits of Cree, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Inuit people made by Walton B. Haydon, while he was stationed at Moose Factory on James Bay in Ontario, Canada. The prints are annotated with identifications and other information.

Digitized Content Alaskan Eskimos and Indians, and an Eskimo burial site
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Creators:
ANONYMOUS
Dates:
undated
Size:
7 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS87827
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Signed with monogram "h" (probably mark of lithographer, "A. Hoen & Co. Lith., Baltimore"). Plate I Tribe-Malemiut "Mahlemute-Man and Woman" Published Plate Number III. Plate III Tribe-Kuskwogmiut "Kuskokvegmute--Male Summer Dress" Published Plate Number IV. Plate III Tribe-Kuskwogmiute "Beluga Hunter and Dwellings--Lower Kuskokvim, Alaska Publishe...

Digitized Content MS 817 Pah-leo comparative vocabulary
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Creators:
Washington, R. A. (Richard A.)
Gabb, William M.
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
Dates:
ca. 1868
Size:
19 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS817
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Recorded in Comparative Vocabulary. Copied from Washington's data; Dr William H. Gabb. Paviotso vocabulary. Compiler was interpreter at Walker River Reservation.

Digitized Content MS 4878 Northern Paiute Myths Related to Saul Riesenberg by Gilbert Natches
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Creators:
Riesenberg, Saul H.
Natches, Gilbert
Dates:
July-August, 1940
Size:
101 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4878
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Typescript document is 45 pages and manuscript document is 56 pages. Also note of transmittal to Margaret C. Blaker. Washington, D. C. October 1, 1969. Typescript document. 1 page. Manuscript document contains some notes and vocabulary items not found in typescript document.

Digitized Content MS 369 Vocabulary of the Tchugatz (Eskimo) of Prince William Sound, Alaska
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Creators:
Voyevodsky, Stepan Vasiliyevich, 1805-1884
Dates:
1858
Size:
2 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS369
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Original is in hand of same scribe as Manuscript Letter Signed, Wowodsky to Gibbs, 21/5 March, 1858, transmitting vocabularies (NAA file Number 371). Original recorded in Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages; copy on plain ruled paper. "Tchugatz" is marked on the original in J.B.H. Hewitt's hand, apparently after Gibbs' note on the copy. Copy...

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