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United States Southwest: Landscapes and Petroglyphs

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.034_ref535
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4310f8aee-b178-4546-b349-5e6ad101e212
Collection Creator
Carter, Ernest S.
Carter, Eloise
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Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection
Ernest S. and Eloise Carter Collection / Series 1: Photographs
Extent
1800 Slides (photographs)
584 Negatives (photographic)
331 Photographic prints
Date
1965-1975
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.034, Subseries 1.2
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.
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
Subseries 1.2 US Southwest: Landscapes and Petroglyphs, 1964-1973, the largest group of materials in the collection, includes the bulk of the work done by the Carters for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. The subseries is arranged chronologically and then by location including sites in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada and Utah. Both Eloise and Ernest shot photographs, though Eloise generally shot in black and white and Ernest in color. This subseries includes negatives, 5x7 and 35mm, slides, 120 and 35mm, and photographic prints of various sizes, some mounted. Images include wide shots of petroglyph, pictograph, and acorn grinding sites, close-ups of petroglyphs as well as landscape views.
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_ref535
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4310f8aee-b178-4546-b349-5e6ad101e212
NMAI.AC.034
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1553605808805-1553605809061-0

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