June and Farrar Burn photographs from Alaska
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Burn, Farrar, 1888-1974
Burn, June, 1893-1969
- Dates:
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1920-1921
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12 glass plate negatives
13 copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.131
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection includes negatives from June and Farrar Burn's time in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska between 1920 and 1921. The Burns were granted teaching appointments from the Bureau of Education in the Alaska School Service and assigned to Gambell where they lived for a year, working closely with the Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) community there.
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Waugh, John Harold, Jr., 1878-1956
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1890-1893
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41 glass plate negatives
41 copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.143
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection includes glass plate negatives shot by J. Harold Waugh, the son of Indian Agent John H. Waugh on the Spirit Lake (Devil's Lake) reservation between 1890 and 1893. The agency headquarters were located at Fort Totten in North Dakota and Waugh (Sr.) oversaw both the Spirit Lake (Devil's Lake) and Turtle Mountain reservations. J. Harold Waugh's photographs include images of agency buildings, activities on the reservation and members of the Wahpetonwan Dakota [Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe] Tribe.
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Edley, Bernard J., 1925-1994
- Dates:
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1948-1949
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78 acetate negatives (black and white, 5 x 7 inches.)
35 Photographic prints (gelatin silver, 2 x 3 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.026
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 78 black-and-white negatives and 35 gelatin silver prints taken by Bernard J. Edley in 1948-1949. The images depict scenes of everyday life among the Santa Cruz Indians of Quintana Roo State and the Tzotzil Indians of Chamula, Chiapas State. Also present are views of archaeological sites at Monte Alban and Mitla in Oaxaca State.
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Glidden, R. (Ralph)
- Dates:
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1919-1923
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536 acetate negatives (black and white, 5 x 7 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.028
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 536 black-and-white acetate negatives taken by Ralph Glidden between 1919-1923. Most of the images depict scenic views and archaeological excavations on Catalina Island, San Miguel Island, San Nicolas Island and San Clemente Island, California. Also included are approximately 88 images of objects excavated by Glidden; these objects are now in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Sanger, Arthur R.
- Dates:
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1920-1926
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16 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.056
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographs by Arthur R. Sanger from excavations on the Channel Islands, California, around 1926.
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Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935
Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924
Saville, Foster H. (Foster Harmon), 1874-1942
- Dates:
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1901-1922
bulk 1907-1918
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526 negatives (photographic) (526 glass plate negatives, black and white)
51 Photographic prints (black and white)
2 lantern slides (black and white, color)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.037
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographs and glass plate negatives documenting the various archaeological expeditions of all three Savilles. The bulk of the images concern the activities headed by Marshall Saville (and assisted by Foster and Randolph) in both South and Central America. Included to a lesser degree are the explorations of Foster in North America and Randolph in the Caribbean, South and Central America. Images document archaeological digs, their settings, the peoples encountered, as well as the objects found. The dates of the images found in this collection and taken by the various Savilles during their numerous expeditions are as follows (the photographer(s) attributed to photographs taken during a specific expedition is/are listed in parentheses following the country of the specific expedition) : 1891: Honduras (Marshall), 1900-1902: Mexico (Marshall), 1907: Cuba (Marshall), 1907: Ecuador (Marshall, Foster, Randolph), 1915: Honduras (Marshall), 1915: Cuba, Jamaica, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala (Randolph), 1914-1916: Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica (Marshall, Foster, Randolph), 1918: Pantigo site, Easthampton, Long Island, New York (Foster), 1922: Photographic portrait of Marshall
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Gow-Smith, Francis
- Dates:
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1926
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41 negatives (photographic)
17 copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.045
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Negatives shot by Francis Gow-Smith over the course of eight months of fieldwork in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil in 1926. Gow-Smith was collecting ethnographic material on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Indigenous communities photographed include the Parecís (Paressi), Nambikuára (Nambicuara) and Borôro (Bororo) peoples.
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Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924
- Dates:
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1915
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13 Photographic prints (silver gelatin)
120 glass plate negatives
125 copy negatives (acetate)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.007
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The photographs in this collection document the excavation of the Nacoochee Mound, located along the banks of the upper Chattahoochee River in the mountains of northeast Georgia, in the summer of 1915. The excavation was a joint project between the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
- Dates:
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circa 1880-1925
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1 lantern slide
170 Photographic prints (albumen)
392 negatives (photographic) (acetate)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.015
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
These images depict the indigenous people of Peru, Bolivia, Suriname and Chile; the largest percentage of the images are of Panama and Guyana (British Guiana).
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Littleton, O. T. (Otis T.)
- Dates:
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1938
1953
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6 acetate negatives (5 x 7 inches.)
35 Photographic prints (gelatin silver.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.023
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection is comprised of 35 gelatin silver prints and 6 acetate negatives taken in 1938 and 1953 by Otis T. Littleton at various archaeological excavations in southern California, including Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Colusa County and Kern County. The majority of the images depict human remains and are restricted.