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[Navajo Lutheran Mission photograph album of student life].
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Title:

[Navajo Lutheran Mission photograph album of student life]

Abstract:

Photograph album documenting student life and other activities at Navajo Lutheran Mission (aka Rock Point Mission) in Rock Point, Arizona. Includes numerous formal school portraits of individual pupils -- most identified by full name -- and snapshots of daily activities of students and missionary staff, mission buildings and grounds, and various events. Also includes a small number of photographs depicting scenes of older Navajo in traditional attire, and landscape views of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Valley.

Date:

1960 (issued)

Subject:

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Navajo Indians -- Education
Navajo Indians -- Religion
Navajo children -- Portraits
Navajo Indians -- Photographs
Lutheran Church -- Missions -- Arizona -- Rock Point -- Photographs
Church work with Indians -- Lutheran Church -- Photographs
Church work with Indians -- Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church -- Missions
Navajo children
Navajo Indians
Navajo Indians -- Education
Navajo Indians -- Religion
Rock Point (Ariz.) -- Photographs
Navajo Lutheran Mission -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s), compiler unknown.
Most leaves include hand-written descriptive captions.
Purchase from Caroliniana ; 2023.
Navajo Lutheran Mission photograph album of student life, BANC PIC 2023.035, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Portraits.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.

Physical Description:

photoprint
approximately 350 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints mounted on paper leaves ; prints various sizes, album 32 x 24 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California