Photographs, ca. 1896-ca. 1950.

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Photographs, ca. 1896-ca. 1950.

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Scenes on the Navajo Indian Reservation and northern Arizona; Indian ruins, trading posts, sheep and shepherds; Navajo code talkers at Marine boot camp; Tuba City, Ariz.; Hopi ceremonial dances; petroglyphs; White Mesa Natural Bridge, Blue Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley, San Juan River, McMillan Earth Crack; Canyon Diablo Trading Post; Tonto National Bridge; Havasupai Canyon; Tolchaco; Jeddito (Ariz.) post office; Kit Carson inscription in Keams Canyon (1863); travel photographs of Mexico; mining camps and ghost towns in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico (1930-1940); portraits of Johnston's father, William R. Johnston, a Navajo missionary, and family, the C.J. Babbitt family, and Navajo Indians.

2, 115 photographic prints : b&w.1, 200 negative prints.429 slides.

Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

Johnston, Philip, 1892-1978

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Philip Johnston (September 14, 1892, in Topeka, Kansas – September 11, 1978, in San Diego, California) proposed the idea of using the Navajo language as a Navajo code to be used in the Pacific during World War II. Johnston was born in Topeka, Kansas, on September 14, 1892, the son of a missionary, William Johnston. The elder Johnston brought his family to Flagstaff, Arizona, on September 16, 1896, to serve Navajos residing on the western part of the Navajo Reservation. Philip's father was abl...