Guide to the Robert Lindsley Photograph Album MC301
Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
2021
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of
California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
Title: Robert Lindsley Photograph Album
Creator:
Lindsley, Robert
Identifier/Call Number: MC301
Physical Description:
1
volume
277 photographs on forty-nine leaves, most measuring
2.75 x 4.5 inches. With some additional postcards and ephemera.
Oblong octavo album. Original black cloth, string-tied, cover
gilt.
Date: 1925
Abstract: Photograph album
documenting a trip to Arizona from Kansas, with extensive images
of local Native Americans.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
Photograph album assembled by Robert Lindsley of Wichita,
Kansas, documenting a road trip taken across the Southwest to the
Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert in Arizona. A note in the
back indicates he left Wichita on July 19, 1925 and returned
September 5th, having traveled 3,685 miles. The first two leaves
contain images of stops made in Texas and New Mexico, while the
remainder of the album is comprised of images of Arizona and New
Mexico. These begin with the Cochise Mining Camp and the Keystone
Mine. There follow images of Tucson, the Arizona State Prison at
Florence, the Roosevelt Dam, Flagstaff, and scenes of camping in
the countryside en route to the Grand Canyon. After a series of
photographs in and around the Canyon, the party moved to Tuba
City, in Navajo country, and the next few leaves contain images
of Navajo and Hopi Indians and their dwellings and environs. Two
striking images show a Native American woman seated on the ground
outside a house with three small children, a drop spindle at her
side and a coffee cup by her knee. In the second of these she
looks piercingly into the camera, perhaps having just noticed the
photographer. Another is labeled as "Navajo Chief
Seginetso," which shows a tall man holding a large animal
hide standing next to another man and a small child; a second
child stands in the immediate foreground staring up at the
photographer. Several images show the Hopi Snake Dance and other
pueblo festivities. The final portion of the album contains a
series photographs of the 1925 Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremony in
Gallup, New Mexico, which depict the town, a parade, bison, a
host of Native Americans in elaborate feathered head dresses,
numerous wagons and floats, a foot race, and a man riding a
bucking buffalo. The final few leaves are images from
Albuquerque, Laguna Indian Village, and Taos.
[Description provided by McBride Rare Books]
Collection is open for research.
Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information
supplied by McBride Rare Books.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, 2020.
[Identification of item], Robert Lindsley Photograph Album,
MC301, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library,
University of California, Davis.
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which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hopi Indians -- Pictorial works
Navajo Indians -- Pictorial
works
Indians of North America -- Pictorial
works
New Mexico -- Pictorial works
Arizona -- Pictorial works
Texas -- Pictorial works