Indians of North America Pictorial Collection

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Indians of North America Pictorial Collection

1860-1950

https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/22/resources/2811

The collection contains photographs of American Indians, including San Ildefonso potters Maria Martinez and Julian Martinez and a variety of nineteenth-century portraits. While produced for the tourist trade, some photographs are ethnographic in nature.

2 boxes (1 containing 20 folders, one oversized box with 3 matted images)

The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404910

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Ramona Industrial School for Indian Girls of the Southwest (Santa Fe, N.M.)

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Chase, D. B. (Dana B.)

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...

Menaul, John

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Martinez, Maria Zuniga de

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Martínez, María Montoya, 1885-1980

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Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico was a well- known potter. From the description of Maria Montoya Martinez letter to Jim Riley, 1954 November 22. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992663 Maria Martinez (1887-1980) was an internationally-known potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo. With her husband Julian and the rest of her family, she created contemporary pottery inspired by traditional Pueblo styles and techniques. The family demonstrated th...

Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905

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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...

Detroit Photographic Co.

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Photographic company, first noted in city registers of Detroit in 1888. Supplied photographs for all purposes, especially for use in books, magazines, and advertising specialities. Many of the prints were of large framing size or suitable for long advertising hangers; however, its speciality was religious material. In the late 1890s, William A. Livingstone became active in the management of the company and at the urging of photographer Edwin H. Husher, he obtained exclusive ownership and rights ...