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North American Indian cultures collection
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  • Conditions Governing Access
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  • Preferred Citation
  • Provenance/Source of Acquisition
  • Processing information
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Collection of Glass Slides of North American Indian Cultures
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1910
    Physical Description: 1.5 linear feet (3 slide boxes)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1890-1925
    Abstract: An artificial collection of commercially produced glass slides depicting various North American Indian cultures.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Use

    Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Collection of glass slides of North American Indian cultures (Collection Number 1919). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Provenance/Source of Acquisition

    Purchase, 1974.

    Processing information

    Processed by Benjamin Formaker-Olivas and Lilace Hatayama, June 2012.
    A holistic review of the collection was undertaken by CFPRT scholar Mary Sweeney as part of a joint Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) and UCLA American Indian Studies Center (AISC) project 2022-2023. In line with professional best practices and resources such as the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, harmful language was updated in finding aid description.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections. 

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9970471983606533 

    Scope and Content

    The collection consists of commercially produced black and white and hand-colored glass slides depicting various aspects of North American Indian cultures, primarily Alaskan, Northwest, Southwest and Plains nations. Commercial slide companies represented include Keystone View Co., McIntosh Battery & Optical Co. and Photo Art S & S Co.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Photographic Studio
    2. Subject

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    North American Indians.