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Correspondence and Photograph Documentation

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.034_ref509
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4236a403b-e5ce-41fc-878c-6612e5e297bb
Collection Creator
Carter, Ernest S.
Carter, Eloise
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Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection
Extent
.8 Linear feet
Date
1964-1987
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.034, Series 2
Type
Archival materials
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.
Arrangement
This series is arranged alphabetically and then by document number.
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 correspondence and photograph documentaion regarding the collections of photographs and other materials the Carters donated to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI) between 1964-1975. The majority of the correspondence is between then director of the MAI, Frederick Dockstader and the Carters. There is a small amount of correspondence between Alexander Draper and William Stiles with the Carters after Dockstader left the museum in 1975 as well as correspondence between MAI staff and the Carters in the 1980s when the photo department was processing and cataloging the Carter photographs. The photograph documentation includes notes, drawings, maps and other information about the photographs themselves which are primarily of petroglyphs in the American Southwest and Mexico. All of the documents, correspondence included, were numbered by the MAI staff in the 1980s and most of the photo documentation includes the corresponding catalog numbers for the photographs.
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_ref509
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4236a403b-e5ce-41fc-878c-6612e5e297bb
NMAI.AC.034
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1518717604929-1518717604960-0

  • Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection


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