Metcalf (Edith) Collection of Navajo Indian Lantern Slides, ca. 1910

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Title:: Edith Metcalf Collection of Navajo Indian Lantern Slides
Dates:: ca. 1910
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Extent:: 71 lantern slides, 58 copy negatives, and 64 copy transparencies in 4 boxes; lantern slides 8 x 10 cm. (3 x 4 in.). See itemized list under “Additional collection guides.”
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Preferred citation:: Edith Metcalf Collection of Navajo Indian Lantern Slides. Huntington Library, Photo Archives Collections

Scope and content:: The lantern slides show Christian hymns and Bible illustrations designed to help educate the Navajos in the Christian faith; Navajo interpreter Tom Cartin(?); Navajo mission helper Gertrude; Joseph R. Wilkin and his trading post; Navajo women weaving; Navajo children at the mission school; Navajo men gambling; Ute Indians; hogans; a sweathouse; Navajos working in the cornfields; Ship Rock; a mission school with Navajo children; a silversmith; sheepherders; and the New Mexico desert. Also included in this collection are copy transparencies that appear to be made from negatives that are not in this collection. These copy transparencies have no accompanying information, but they do seem to have been created around the same time as the lantern slides. The copy transparencies show portraits of Tom Cartin(?) and Gertrude; Navajo men on horseback; Navajo women and their children; desert landscapes; Baptist missionary families (including the Wrights); pictographs; and horses and wagons. Fifty-eight copy negatives are also a part of the collection. Lantern slides 5, 13-33, 35-45, 47-49, 51-54, 56-58, 60-69, and 71 have matching copy negatives.
Acquisition information:: Given by Edith Metcalf on October 28, 1977.

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by Huntington Library, Photo Archives Collections staff.
Date Prepared:: ca. 1910
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

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Preferred citation:: Edith Metcalf Collection of Navajo Indian Lantern Slides. Huntington Library, Photo Archives Collections

Location of this collection:: Huntington Library, Photo Archives Collections

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San Marino, CA 91108, US