Melvin R. Gilmore photographs

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Melvin R. Gilmore photographs

1923-1924

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.001.027

This collection contains 69 black-and-white acetate negatives taken by Melvin R. Gilmore in 1923-1924. The images depict scenes of everyday life among the Sahnish (Arikara) Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.

69 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 5 x 7 inches.)

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658216

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center

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