Visual Materials

Album E

Description

This album contains 320 photographs taken between 1902 and 1906 in Arizona, California, Washington, and British Columbia and consists mostly of views of baskets and basket collections, and some views of Indians, including Mary and William Benson, when they visited Pasadena. Most photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman, though there are some by commercial photographers George Butler; A.A. Forbes; Park & Co. Photo; Adam Clark Vroman; and Waite Photo; as well as unidentified photographers.

Tribes represented: (few) Pomo; women at missions in Southern California. Other subjects: McLeod Basket Collection, Bakersfield.

Type

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Date

1902-1906

Call number

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Creator

Nicholson, Grace (-1948)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Thyra H. Maxwell, October 1968.

Album A

Visual Materials

This album contains 554 photographs taken between 1906 and 1908 in California and Nevada. Most photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman, though there are some by commercial photographers A.W. Ericson and J.A. Meiser, as well as unidentified photographers. Tribes represented: Hupa; Maidu; Mesa Grande [Diegueno]; Paiute; Pomo; Tolowa; Tule River Indians; Yokuts; Washoe. Other subjects include: McLeod Basket Collection, Bakersfield, and other basket collections; Indian baskets; excavation at Lake County, Ca.; Eagle Dance at Mesa Grande.

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Album F

Visual Materials

This album contains 597 photographs taken in 1905 and 1906 in California primarily of baskets and basket collections, as well as many views of Grace Nicholson's store. Most photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman, though there are some by commercial photographers A.W. Ericson, and A.A. Forbes, as well as unidentified photographers. Tribes represented: (few) Maidu; Paiute; Pomo; Apache; Supai.

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Album B

Visual Materials

This album contains 428 photographs taken primarily between 1905 and 1908 in British Columbia, California, and Washington, with many views of baskets and basket collections, as well as some views of Grace Nicholson's shop at 46 N. Los Robles in Pasadena. Most photographs were taken by Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman, though there are some by commercial photographers W.T. Fitch, Benjamin A. Gifford, J.A. Haran, Frank La Roche, and S. G. Morse, as well as unidentified photographers. Some of the commercial photographs date before 1905. Tribes represented: Dwamish [i.e. Duwamish]; Kaskimo; Makah; Mojave [i.e. Mohave]; Nootka; Paiute; Pomo; Quinault; Wasco.

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1.1 Photograph Albums

Visual Materials

This subseries contains nine photograph albums with many views of Native Americans; baskets and basket collections; Grace Nicholson's store and home in Pasadena, California; and images of Nicholson and others. Albums A-F consist of six albums with approximately 500 photos each, mostly documenting Grace Nicholson's six basket-collecting trips between 1902 and 1912 to Native American communities of the Northwest Coast, California, and Southwest. The photographs are black-and-white prints, mostly 3 x 4 inches, pasted in albums measuring 11 1/4 x 15 inches, with many captions in Nicholson's handwriting. Albums G-I are smaller volumes and consist of a volume of 25 commercial photographs of Indians (Album G); a volume with 25 photographs of Grace Nicholson's first collecting trip to Ukiah and Northern California in 1903 (Album H); and a volume of 29 photographs of various Native Americans made by an unknown compiler and later acquired by Grace Nicholson (Album I).

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Album H

Visual Materials

This small album contains 25 photographs documenting Grace Nicholson's first collecting trip to Ukiah and vicinity in Northern California in July 1903 and includes photographs of Pomo Indian William Benson and a parade in Ukiah. All of the photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman.

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Copy negatives for images in Albums E-I and others

Visual Materials

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.

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Album E

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Album A

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