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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1886-1913
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13 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.999
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National Museum of the American Indian
The General Photograph collections contains photographs depicting people, events, and activities related to the historical and contemporary lives of Native peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere.
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Emmons, George Thornton
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1870-1917
bulk 1870-1890
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20 Photographic prints
12 Copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.053
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographic prints and copy negatives made by George Thornton Emmons among Native communities in Alaska and British Columbia mostly between 1870 and 1890. Communities photographed include—Nisga'a (Niska), Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Yup'ik, Nuxalk (Ballacoola), Haida, and Tlingit.
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Peratrovich, Roy, Sr., 1908-1989
Peratrovich, Elizabeth, 1911-1958
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1929-2001
bulk 1939-2001
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0.42 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.078
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Peratrovich family papers include correspondence, personal papers, and newsclippings related to civil rights work done by Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich in Alaska in the mid-twentieth century.
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Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 1881-1934.
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1898-1900
1903
1914
bulk 1899-1899
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396 Lantern slides
286 Photographic prints
1 Map
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.053
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Mary Harriman Rumsey collection largely consists of photographic prints and lantern slides documenting the Harriman Expedition to Alaska in summer 1899. These depict members of the expedition and Alaskan scenery and people. The collection also includes scenic photographs of Alaska taken by Dora Keen in 1914 and photographs of Blackfeet, Hopi, Apache, and Suquamish Indians made by Edward Curtis in 1900 and 1903.
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Paul, William L. Jr
Curry, James E., 1907-1972
- Dates:
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1932-1958
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121.7 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.015
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
These are the papers of Washington, D.C. attorney James E. Curry, whose legal career included work both as a government attorney and in his own private practice. The bulk of the papers reflect his private practice in the area of Indian affairs.
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Starr, Frederick, 1859-1933
Lang, Charles B.
Grabic, Louis
- Dates:
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1894-1910
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152 Lantern slides
3344 Negatives (photographic)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.052
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The collection includes materials from cultures in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guiana: Acoma Pueblo, Apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Caddo, Cahuilla, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chibcha, Chinantec, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Choco, Chol, Chontal, Cochiti Pueblo, Crow, Cuicatec, Eskimo, Flathead, Haida, Hopi, Huastec, Huave, Iowa, Iroquois, Isleta, Karaja, Kwakiutl, Laguna Pueblo, Macusi, Mandan, Maya, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mehinaku, Menomini, Mixe, Mixtec, Navajo, Nez Perce, Osage, Otomi, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pima, Ponca, Potawatomi, Salish, San Blas, San Felipe Pueblo, Sauk & Fox, Shuar, Sioux, Taos Pueblo, Tarasco, Teotihuacan, Tepehua, Tlaxcala, Tlingit, Tonkawa, Totonac, Triqui, Tzental, Tzotzil, Ute, Wampanoag, Zapotec, Zoque, Zuni.
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Sanborn, Elwin R. (Elwin Roswell)
New York Zoological Society
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September 23, 1904
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12 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.204
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains photographs depicting the erection of a Tlingit totem pole and chief's house near the Mammals' Pond at the New York Zoological Society on September 23, 1904.
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Higley, Elmer Ellsworth
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bulk circa 1900-1968
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534 Lantern slides
0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.228
- Repository:
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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.
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Addison, George A.
- Dates:
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circa 1894-1896
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23 Cabinet photographs
0.25 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.097
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection of twenty-three cabinet card photographs was collected by Alice Kennedy Eagan, and depicts Native American and non-native life in the Fort Still, Oklahoma Territory, circa 1894-1896.
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St. Michael Indian School (Saint Michaels, Ariz.)
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circa 1950-1959
- Size:
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0.02 Linear feet
8 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.096
- Repository:
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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.