Joseph W. Keppler, Jr. collection of negatives and photographs

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Joseph W. Keppler, Jr. collection of negatives and photographs

1870-1947

Images depict the Seneca Iroquois Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York.

79 Photographic prints (black and white); 129 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)

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