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[Frashers Fotos scenic and promotional photographs pertaining to Native Americans of the Southwest].
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Title:

[Frashers Fotos scenic and promotional photographs pertaining to Native Americans of the Southwest]

Creator/Contributor:

Frashers Inc, creator, photographer.

Abstract:

Includes ten small-format commercial scenic views pertaining to the Navajo, accompanied by original paper mailer with printed title "Life of a Navajo Indian"; six promotional display photographs illustrating various sets of commercial views published by Frashers -- e.g. "Life of the Zuni Pueblo Indians", "Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonials", "Indian Tribal Dances" and "Life of the Navajo Indians"; and one promotional photographic postcard depicting a calendar for the year 1937 and the image of a San Juan Peublo woman working with a woolen textile.

Date:

1937 (issued)

Subject:

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Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Photographs
Navajo Indians -- Photographs
Pueblo Indians -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer's logo printed in most images: "Frashers Fotos, Pomona, Calif."
Descriptive captions printed in each image.
Frashers Fotos scenic and promotional photographs pertaining to Native Americans of the Southwest, BANC PIC 2022.075, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase from Nat Desmarais ; 2022.

Type:

graphic
Postcards.

Physical Description:

photoprint
17 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 14 x 9 cm and 9 x 7 cm.

Language:

English

Origin:

California