Series 1. Native Americans and Basket Collecting Trips

This series contains nine photograph albums and many individual photographs. The majority of the photographs are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California and the Southwest of North America. The photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, on their travels to buy Indian baskets and other artifacts primarily between 1903 and 1912. Both Nicholson and Hartman took photographs during the trips, and some images depict the same scene, photographed with two different cameras and film sizes--possibly from cameras each was carrying. For this reason, attribution is dual: Photographs by Grace Nicholson/Carroll S. Hartman. There are also many postcards and commercial photographs with the photographers identified where known. Many people and places are identified on the backs of photos in Grace Nicholson's handwriting.