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Photographs

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.034_ref508
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv447b2ffb0-3afc-4984-9e1a-bb9681cdbf6c
Collection Creator
Carter, Ernest S.
Carter, Eloise
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Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection
Extent
2415 Slides (photographs)
855 Negatives (photographic)
526 Photographic prints
Date
1947-1975
bulk 1964-1975
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.034, Series 1
Type
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Negatives (photographic)
Photographic prints
Collection Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ernest S. and Eloise Carter collection, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Processing Information
Some of the photographs in the Carter collection were origianlly item level cataloged in 1986. This included the photographic prints and 5x7 inch negatives. The slides and 35mm negatives were given catalog numbers but never cataloged. We have maintained the original numbers the items were given. "P" numbers refer to prints. "N" numbers refer to negatives. "T" numbers refer to slides.
Collection Rights
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to [email protected]. For personal or classroom use, users are invited users to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not changed, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian.
Scope and Contents
This Series includes photographic prints, negatives and slides taken by Ernest and Eloise between 1950 and 1976 in Bolivia, Mexico and the American Southwest. This series is organized into four subseries: Subseries 1.1: Mexico and Bolivia, Landscapes and People, 1950-1951, 1964; Sub Series 1.2: US Southwest: Landscapes and Petroglyphs, 1964-1973; Sub Series 1.3: Object Photography: Kachinas, Pottery, Baskets, 1967-1975; Sub Series 1.4: Educational materials and Other Selected Studies, 1970-1973. The bulk of the collection is from the work the Carters did between 1964 and 1975 photographing petroglyph and pictograph sites in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado (Subseries 1.2). There is also a signficant amount of object photography documenting the Carters large collection of Kachinas, pottery, baskets and other materials. The photographs in this series were sent to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation over the course of ten years, often with corresponding documentation. It has been noted where to find accompanying documents (in Series 2) which often have additional descriptions and information about what is photographed.
Collection Restrictions
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: [email protected]).
NMAI.AC.034_ref508
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv447b2ffb0-3afc-4984-9e1a-bb9681cdbf6c
NMAI.AC.034
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1518717604929-1518717604957-0

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