Hopi glass lantern slides, 1913-1922 / by Emory Kopta.

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Hopi glass lantern slides, 1913-1922 / by Emory Kopta.

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Scenes and portraits made on the Hopi Reservation. Some may have been used as the basis of Kopta's sculpture. Titles taken from wooden lantern slide boxes.

69 glass lantern slides ; 3 x 4 in. or less.

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Kopta, Emory, b. 1884.

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Emory Kopta was born in Austria in 1884. He grew up in Czechoslovakia where he was educated by a private tutor; later he attended school in Cologne, German. At 16 he moved with his family to the United States and settled in San Francisco. When his father bought a ranch in Sacramento Valley, Kopta worked with him until he fell from a horse and lost one of his legs, which was replaced with an artificial limb. Returning to San Francisco he enrolled in a fashionable Knob Hill art school. The school ...