Various Pueblos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Other Views in New Mexico, Arizona and North Dakota
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- Collection Creator
- Churchill, Frank C. (Frank Carroll), 1850-1912
- Churchill, Clara G.
- Culture
- Cochiti Pueblo
- Tesuque Pueblo
- San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo)
- Taos Pueblo
- Picuris Pueblo
- Laguna Pueblo
- Acoma Pueblo
- Wahpetonwan Dakota (Wahpeton Sioux)
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- Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill collection
- Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill collection / Series 2: Photographs in the Southwest and Midwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Califonia, Minnesota and Wisconsin / 2.1: Photograph Albums
- Extent
- 195 Photographic prints
- Date
- 1907 March-April
- 1908
- Container
- Box 17
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.058, File P23363
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill collection, NMAI.AC.058, National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
- Scope and Contents
- This album contains 195 photographic prints taken by Frank Churchill in March-April 1907 at various Pueblos and locations in New Mexico and Arizona during Frank Churchill's assignment as U.S. Indian Inspector to visit Indian day schools and boarding schools. There are also a small amount of photographs from North Dakota in 1908 that have been inserted amongst the New Mexico photographs. The album was later compiled and captioned by Clara Churchill. Some of the photographs were also later hand colored by Clara Churchill. Pueblos visited include—Cochiti, Tesuque, San Ildenfonso, Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan), Taos, Picuris, Laguna (Paraje, Mesita, Paguate, Seama) and Acoma (Acomita). Photographs from Cochiti include—Cochiti Day School; Old Church; Estufa or Kiva; Women carrying water; Christmas dance (not taken by Churchill); winnowing wheat; and Vivan Perez. Taos photographs include—Pueblo views; church ruins; goat herding; Kiva entrance; Kit Carson's house and grave with Smith Simpson; Pablo Suaso (Captain of War); and 107 year old woman. Photographs from Laguna include—Women washing clothes in Seama; Paguate (Pahuate) day school with students and Miss Mary Disette (teacher); Daisy Shumann (Zuni) at the Paguate school; Howyce Seonia and other women; Mesita day school and young girl; and various views of Paguate, Paraje and Mesita. Photographs from Acoma and Acomita include—Men plowing; houses and families; Mrs. Churchill with Acoma woman; pottery firing kilns; Government farmer Allen; Edward Hunt (merchant); and McCarty's Station. Additional Pueblo views include—Tesuque with Superintendent Crandall; San Ildefonso pueblo and school; Governor Cota with Juan Baptiste, Talache (ex-governer), Superintendent Crandall, Sam Eldodt and Joseph Eldodt in San Juan; and Ancient ruins, Santiango Martinez and wife Caramalita Barqus in Picuris. Photographs from Santa Fe include—Plaza; Governers palace; Palace Hotel; Soldiers monument; U.S. Indian School; and J.B. Harper, C.J. Crandall, H.F. Robinson and Frank Churchill. Photographs from Albuquerque include—Birthplace of Mrs. (General) Phil Sheridan; San Felipe Indians with Superintendent Custer; Edna Custer; Dormitories at the University in Albuquerque. Additional scenes in New Mexico include—Fording the Rio Grande with Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Crandall; Canyon near Embado; and Penitentes Moradas during lent including the Morada chapel of the penitents. Photographs in Arizona include—Ash Fork Hotel; Fort McDowell; Lunch at Camel Back Mountain; Verde River; and Phoenix Indian School teachers Miss Ridenhour, Miss Gould, Miss F. Harrey and Mrs. Snyder. The photographs from North Dakota include views of Wahpetonwan Dakota (Sioux) men and women on horseback at Devils Lake and Fort Totten. There are some additional photographs at the album that appeared to have been added later and are not in any particular order and most likely not take by the Churchill. The majority of the photographs from Arizona and many of the New Mexico photographs do not have corresponding negatives.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
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- Record ID
- ebl-1669919401750-1669919402275-0