Red Lake Trading Post album, 1906-1911 / [photographs by Frank Newbegin].

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Red Lake Trading Post album, 1906-1911 / [photographs by Frank Newbegin].

Snapshots made by Newbegin when he worked at the Red Lake Trading Post, 1906-1911. Views of the interior and exterior of the trading post; of Mr. Preston and Mr. Fleming, its operators; of cowboys, Native Americans, and traders who used the post. What appears to be a self portrait by Newbegin at a clerk's desk. Views of the reservations at Navajo, including landscapes and the boarding school at Tuba City; and at Hopi, showing pueblos, dances, and a German mission. Other scenes around Arizona show Flagstaff street scenes, a lumber mill, and the Lowell Observatory; Albuquerque and the Fred Harvey Building at the Alvarado; and Tucson. Includes scenes from Newbegin's farm near Lewiston, Maine; Peak Island, off the coast of Maine; and unidentified locales from a railroad trip, possibly along the West Coast.

1 album (169 + 13 photographic prints) ; 12 x 15 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7758706

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