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  • Louise White (Karok) and Grace Nicholson, left

    Louise White (Karok) and Grace Nicholson, left

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    A wood plank house stands in the background.

    photCL 56 (214)

  • Hickox residence

    Hickox residence

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    A wood plank house, Northern California.

    photCL 56 (247)

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    Karok

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    This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.

    photCL 56

  • Elizabeth Hickox and daughter Louise - Karok

    Elizabeth Hickox and daughter Louise - Karok

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    photCL 56 (241)

  • Elizabeth Hickox and daughter Louise - Karok

    Elizabeth Hickox and daughter Louise - Karok

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    photCL 56 (242)

  • [Mexican] family outside adobe. One of the women is making tortillas

    [Mexican] family outside adobe. One of the women is making tortillas

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    Photo of a family outside an adobe house; a boy sitting in a large pot on left, man seated near doorway, a woman making tortillas, another woman standing, and three children sitting on wood plank on right.

    photCL 449 (79)