George P. Thresher Negative Collection of the Southwest: Finding Aid

Box 1

Copy prints (Items 1-190)

Arizona

Phoenix

Box 1, Item 1

Woman and child outside residence.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 2

Street scene with Mexican children playing.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 3

Cave opening in cliff. Graffiti?

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 4 - 5 (variant)

"Turk on horseback."

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 6

Horse and rider.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 7

Arizona Falls on Salt River, near Phoenix.

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Glass plate negative

Flagstaff area

Box 1, Item 8-8.1

First relay station between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon.

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(8) Glass plate negative; a cropped version of (8.1) negative.

Box 1, Item 9

Dinner station halfway to Grand Canyon.

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Negative

Garden of the Gods [Actually located in Colorado, not Arizona]

Box 1, Item 10

Entrance to the Garden of the Gods.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 11-13

Balance Rock.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 14

"Mother Grundy" (rock formation).

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Negative

Box 1, Item 15-20

Mission San Xavier del Bac.

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(16) glass plate negative, no print; (17) glass plate negative.

Box 1, Item 21-23.1

Montezuma Castle.

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Glass plate negatives; same image.

Box 1, Item 24-26

Indians at Peach Springs.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 27

Indians at Yuma Station, 1908.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 28

Hotel.

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Negative.

Gila River Crossing

Box 1, Item 27

Cooking shelter.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 28

Village with granary.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 29

Woman with metate.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 30

Woman winnowing grain.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 31

Wickiups.

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Glass plate negative; no print.

Box 1, Item 32

Wickiup.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 33

Granary.

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Glass plate negative and negative.

Box 1, Item 34

Woman carrying pot on head.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 37-37.2

Family outside adobe structure.

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Glass plate negatives (37.1-37.2 are variants)

Box 1, Item 38

Family outside adobe structure. Woman with metate.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 39

Brush structure.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 40

Adobe structure; wagons under shed roof.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 40.1

Adobe structure; wagons under shed roof.

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Negative, no print; same image as (40).

Box 1, Item 41

Irrigation ditch.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 42

Cactus and mesquite near Gila River.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 43

Cactus with arrows.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 44

Mother and child.

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Glass plate negative and 2 positives (glass and film)

Box 1, Item 45

Mother with child on back.

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Negative and positive

Box 1, Item 45.1

Mother with child on back. Slight variation in pose.

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Negative and glass positive, no print

Box 1, Item 46

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Negative

Box 1, Item 47

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Negative and positive

Box 1, Item 48

Winnowing grain.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 49

Weaving basket [Pima].

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Glass plate negative and film.

Box 1, Item 50

Woman carrying large pot.

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Glass plate negative and film.

Box 1, Item 51-53

Papago woman making pot.

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(51) and (53) glass plate negative; (52) film negative.

Native Americans identified by tribe

Box 1, Item 54

Apache chief. (Used as illustration in Arizona Illustrated).

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Negative

Box 1, Item 55

Hopi woman (with basket, pot, corn).

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 56

Navajo man (blanket in background).

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 57

Maricopa woman ("Slippery Kate").

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Negative

Box 1, Item 58

Papago woman.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 59

Papago man and oven.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 6

Yuma chief, with bow and arrows.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 61

Yuma man.

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Glass plate negative (color added)

Box 1, Item 62

Two Yuma women.

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Glass plate negative

Native Americans not identified by tribe

Box 1, Item 63

Family inside dwelling, 1899. (Metate, basket, buckets).

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Glass plate negative, no print

Box 1, Item 64

Blind woman.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 65

Woman, two men (one with rifle) outside wickiup.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 66

Woman holding bow and arrows and with child in carrying basket.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 67

Two women potters.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 68

Family by wickiup at Leemore [Lemmon?].

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Positive

Box 1, Item 69

Family at Leemore (?) just returned from funeral.

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Positive

Box 1, Item 70

Men and scoop-shaped basket.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 71

Man with staff.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 72

Woman weaving.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 73

"Juan, the Indian wood carrier."

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 74

Hopi (?) man in doorway, with his feet on ladder.

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Glass plate negative

Miscellaneous

Box 1, Item 75

[Ramada].

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 76

Wickiups.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 77

"Old time Indian method of burying dead: a custom now obsolete."

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 78

Baskets. (Pima?)

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 79

[Mexican] family outside adobe. One of the women is making tortillas.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 80

[Mexican] family outside adobe.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 80.1

[Mexican] family outside adobe.

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Variant of (80), no print.

Box 1, Item 81

[Mexican] family outside adobe.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 82

Front of Doña Martina's house.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 83

Desert landscape with adobe houses on dirt road.

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Box 1, Item 84

Adobe ruins, "Banditti." [Arizona?]

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Negative

Box 1, Item 85

Adobe residences. [Arizona?]

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Negative

Box 1, Item 86

River landscape. [Arizona?]

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 86.1

Rock face with cave openings. [Arizona?]

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Negative

Box 1, Item 86.2

Rock face with rock structure built against it. [Arizona?]

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 86.3

Desert landscape with animal carcasses. [Arizona?]

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 86.4

Burro outside log structure. [Arizona?]

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No negative

California

Box 1, Item 87

"Victoriano, Chief of the Soboba Indians (136 years old)."

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Negative

Box 1, Item 88

Captain Victoriano.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 89

Victoriano's third wife (107 years old).

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Negative

Box 1, Item 90

Native American woman (California?) inside brush hut.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 91

Luiseño basket maker, Soboba.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 92

Luiseños, San Luis Rey.

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Glass plate negative. For photographs of mines in San Diego County, see 162-179.

Colorado

Box 1, Item 93

Typical Denver homes.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 94

Castle Rock.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 95

Pike's Peak Railroad: engine and car at Manitou.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 96

Railroad station, Pike's Peak (rear view).

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Negative, no print.

Box 1, Item 97

Railroad station, Pike's Peak (front view).

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Negative

Box 1, Item 98

Government building, Pike's Peak.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 99

Granite Canyon.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 100

Seven Falls and view of Cheyenne Canyon.

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Glass plate negative. [Scene doesn't seem to match title.]

Box 1, Item 101

Prospect Dome, Cheyenne Falls.

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Glass plate negative. [Scene doesn't seem to match title.]

Box 1, Item 102

"Buckskin Charley and band of Ute Indians."

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Glass plate negative

Idaho

Box 1, Item 103-105

Wickiups, Bannock Reservation.

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Negatives

[Montana]

Box 1, Item 105.1

"Indian camp. Blackfeet, Piegans, Saree, and Bloods.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 105.2

“Near Gleiohan, B. C." [Missing]

Nevada

Box 1, Item 106-109

Las Vegas.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 110

Las Vegas, Hot Springs.

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Negative. [Note: Research has shown that (#110) Las Vegas Hot Springs are actually located in New Mexico]

New Mexico

Box 1, Item 111

Sante Fe.

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Negative, no print

Box 1, Item 112-114

Santa Fe.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 115

Beggar, Sante Fe.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 116

Beehive oven, Santa Fe.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 117

Schoolhouse and school children, Sante Fe.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 118

Schoolroom, Sante Fe.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 119

Government building, Sante Fe.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 119.1

Street scene. Men on burros. Wall posters for opera (The Rose) and Seligman Bros., Santa Fe., General Merchandise.

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No negative

Box 1, Item 120-121

Hot Springs basket maker.

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Positives, no prints

Box 1, Item 122

Hot Springs washing place.

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Positive, no print

Pueblos

Box 1, Item 123

Laguna (?).

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Negative. (Same view identified on another neg envelope as Isleta.)

Box 1, Item 124

Laguna (?).

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Glass plate negative; identified on negative envelope as Isleta, but same view as (123).

Box 1, Item 125

Laguna.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 126

Brush structure, Tesuque.

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Positive

Box 1, Item 127-130

Tesuque.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 131

Tesuque.

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Negative, no print

Box 1, Item 132

Church, Tesuque.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 133

Unidentified pueblo.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 134

Unidentified pueblo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 135

Unidentified pueblo.

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Glass plate negative

Texas

Box 1, Item 136

El Paso. Plaza in winter.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 137

El Paso. Plaza in winter.

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Positive. Same image as (136)

Box 1, Item 138

Houston. Open air restaurant.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 139

San Antonio. Entrance to the Alamo.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 140

San Antonio. The Alamo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 141

San Antonio. The Alamo and two freight wagons.

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Negative and positive

Missions

Box 1, Item 142

La Purísima Concepción de Acuña. [Founded 1716, established in San Antonio 1731.]

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Negative

Box 1, Item 143

San Francisco de la Espada, SW corner. "Built 1731." (Ruins).

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Negative

Box 1, Item 144

San Francisco de la Espada, NW corner. (Ruins).

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Negative

Box 1, Item 145

Mission San Francisco de la Espada.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 146

San Francisco de la Espada. "3rd mission."

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Ngative

Box 1, Item 147-148

Granary, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 149

Main doorway, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 150

Window, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 151

Chapel door, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 152

Undercroft?, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 153-154

Front façade, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negatives

Box 1, Item 155

Side view, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 156

Ruined arches (San José?).

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 157

Bullfight montage.

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Glass plate negative, no print

Utah

Box 1, Item 158

Salt Lake City. Mormon Temple.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 159

Salt Lake City. Mormon Temple Annex.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 160

Salt Lake City. Outside Mormon Tabernacle.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 161

Ogden. Washington Avenue.

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Negative

Mount Beauty Mine (San Diego County, California)

Box 1, Item 162

Chihuahua Valley, looking south.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 163

Mount Beauty trip. From top of Chihuahua Mountain showing Warner's Ranch and Chihuahua Valley.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 164

President's office.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 165

Secretary's office.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 166

Mining camp.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 167

Croppings, looking north.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 168

Croppings, looking south.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 169

Two tunnels and two dumps.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 170

Tunnel One and Tunnel Two.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 171

Tunnel One, or upper tunnel.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 172

Tunnel entrance, dump, and ore.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 173

Tunnel and men at work (lower tunnel #2).

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 174

Tunnel, long range.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 175

Main draw, looking north.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 176

"Our abundant water supply."

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Negative

Box 1, Item 177

Mill site.

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 178

June Bug Tunnel and outcroppings. (Mount Beauty Mine?).

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 179

June Bug Tunnel. (Mount Beauty Mine?)

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Glass plate negative

Unidentified scenes

Box 1, Item 180-181

Industrial activity (mining?)

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Glass plate negative

Box 1, Item 182-183

Hillside houses.

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Glass plate negative. Note on (183): "Don't print from this."

Box 1, Item 184

Railroad tracks.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 185

Man with 2 burros.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 186

25th Street showing Reed Hotel and Public Library. [Also shows Adams Bros. photographers.] Flag at half mast.

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Negative; print is backwards

Box 1, Item 187

Street scene with French Hotel.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 188

Saloon.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 189

Cemetery.

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Negative

Box 1, Item 190

Building in rocky landscape. "CH" painted on one slab.

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No negative

Box 1

Lantern slides (Items 191-198)

Arizona

Box 1, Item 191

Blind woman.

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Same as (64)

Box 1, Item 192

Blind woman.

Box 1, Item 193-194

Brush structures.

California

Box 1, Item 195

Woman in brush hut.

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Same as (90)

Box 1, Item 196

Three Luiseños, San Luis Rey.

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Same as (92)

New Mexico

Box 1, Item 197-198

Hot Springs basket maker.

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Same as (120-121)

Negatives

Access Information

Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made with the Curator of Photographs.

Neg. Box 1

Negatives 1-31

Neg. Box 2

Negatives 32-50

Neg. Box 3

Negatives 51-80

Neg. Box 4

Negatives 81-110

Neg. Box 5

Negatives 111-145

Neg. Box 6

Negatives 146-176

Neg. Box 7

Negatives 177-189

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