Visual Materials

Album A

Description

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.

Type

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Date

1906-1908

Call number

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Creator

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

Provenance

Gift of Thyra H. Maxwell, October 1968.

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Album E

Visual Materials

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.

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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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Album D

Visual Materials

This album contains 467 photographs taken between 1907 and 1910 in California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Mexico. Most photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman, though there are some by commercial photographer Frank Palmer, as well as unidentified photographers. Tribes represented: Campo; Chukchansi; Colville; Hopi; Indians of Baja California, Mexico; Manzanita [i.e. Kumeyaay; Kamia]; Mesa Grande [Diegueno]; Modoc; Mono; Taos Pueblo; Yokuts; Wintun; Tolowa; Umatilla; Yurok.

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Album C

Visual Materials

This album contains 623 photographs taken in 1911 and 1912 in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Notably, the album includes a photograph of Hopi potter Nampeyo. All of the photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman. Tribes represented : Hopi; Hupa; Karok; Maidu; Miwok; Mojave [i.e. Mohave]; Paiute; Pueblo Indians of Santo Domingo, Isleta, San Juan, Laguna, Acoma; Shasta; Yokuts; Yurok.

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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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1.1 Photograph Albums