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Creator:
Schwemberger, Simeon  Search this
Collection Creator:
Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908  Search this
Schwemberger, Simeon  Search this
Extent:
79 Postcards
Culture:
Acoma Pueblo  Search this
Diné (Navajo)  Search this
Hopi  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Date:
1908-1916
Scope and Contents:
Many of the postcards were sent between non-Native family members who worked in Indian Boarding Schools, including those at Fort Defiance and Chinle in Arizona, Chilocco in Oklahoma, Haskell in Kansas, and Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin. Approximately 10 postcards contain images taken by the photographer Simeon Schwemberger of Diné (Navajo) people on the Navajo Reservation, and were sold out of his studio in St. Michaels, Arizona.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Arizona and New Mexico postcard and photograph collection, NMAI.AC.127; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NMAI.AC.127, Series 1
See more items in:
Arizona and New Mexico postcard and photograph collection
Archival Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
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EDAN-URL:
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