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Query: Colorado

Ancient Peoples of Colorado

Dates:: undated
Size:: 1 Video recording (1 hour, color sound; VHS)
Collection ID:: HSFA.2001.12
Repository:: Human Studies Film Archives

One 1/2" VHS video tape entitled "Ancient Peoples of Colorado." Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The informa...

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African American Portrait Tintypes

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Creators:: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
Dates:: circa 1865-1900
Size:: 2 Items
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0515
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Two small portrait busts of young African American men or boys. One wears a jacket and tie. The other tintype, in somewhat worse condition, is bent and abraded and has a hole in the top, and shows a young man wearing a broad-brimmed hat, vest, and jacket, no tie. No indication of photographer's identity.

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Frank Mechau correspondence and mural contracts

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Creators:: Mechau, Frank, 1904-1946
Dates:: 1934-1940
Size:: 8 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Collection ID:: AAA.mechfran
Repository:: Archives of American Art

Three letters from Edward B. Rowan, about Mechau's work as a Public Works of Art artist in Colorado; and five contracts for murals to be painted.

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John Wetherill lantern slides

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Creators:: Wetherill, John
Dates:: 1892
Size:: 42 Lantern slides
Collection ID:: NMAI.AC.106
Repository:: 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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MS 1043 Observations on the Indians of the Colorado River, California, by George Gibbs; Accompanying vocabularies of the Yuma and Mohave tribes

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Creators:: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
Milhau, John J.
Oatman, Olive Ann
Mowry, Sylvester, 1830-1871
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Dates:: 1856
Size:: 22 Pages
Collection ID:: NAA.MS1043
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Includes Gibbs' draft of the same, 3 pages. "Map of the Indian Tribes in the neighborhood of Fort Yuma, Cal.," document 1 page. "Notes on the Indians of the Colorado," by Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry, Third Artillery. Fort Yuma, Calif. March 23, 1856. Autograph document signed. 10 pages including note of transmittal on page 8. (21 pages, total)

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Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region stereographs of canyons on the Green and Colorado Rivers

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Creators:: Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)
Dates:: circa 1871
Size:: 45 Stereographs (albumen)
Collection ID:: NAA.PhotoLot.76-131
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Stereographs published by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, documenting canyons along the Green and Colorado Rivers and surveyors. Although the images in this collection are credited to Powell and A. H. Thompson, the primary photographers on these surveys were John K. Hillers, E. O. Beaman, and James Fennemore. Th...