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Start Over Subject Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Photographs Organization Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Place Abajo Mountains (Utah)

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Sheldon Jackson Collection of Indian Photographs, circa 1850-1890 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes
Abstract:
Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States in the 19th century. This collection consists of three portfolios with 576 photographic prints and 5 photomechanical photogravures of Native Americans and related subjects compiled by Jackson, possibly from negatives in the collections of the Bureau of American Ethnology and by ordering prints from various photographic trade catalogs.

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