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Extent:

6 Film reels (black and white, silent, positive, 16 mm)

1 Film reel (color, composite print, 16 mm)

29 Photographs (black and white prints)

Culture:

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Photographs

Place:

Alaska

Date:

1936-1945

Summary:

Amateur footage shot by Presbyterian missionaries Nan and Fred Klerekoper in and around Point Barrow, Alaska, between 1936 and 1945. Also includes edited film A Time to Remember (1984) created from footage as well as a few related photographs.

Identifier:

HSFA.2015.15

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc923227950-9821-4c89-b714-8b31370007ef

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-2015-15

Collector:

Ray, P. H. (Patrick Henry), 1842-1911  Search this

Extent:

18 Pages

Culture:

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Eskimos  Search this

Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1881

Scope and Contents:

Also includes several loose sheets with memoranda. (See Number 303).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 356

General:

Previously titled "Words and phrases."

Topic:

Utkiavinmiut  Search this

Eskimo ?  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 356, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS356

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3c01b6d0b-1970-4453-ba8c-19d325bb118c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms356

Creator:

LaVoy, Merl  Search this

Extent:

27 Photographic prints

26 Copy negatives

Culture:

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo)  Search this

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Copy negatives

Place:

Barrow, Point (Alaska)

Date:

1920

Summary:

This collection includes 27 prints and 26 copy negatives taken by Merl LaVoy among the Inupiaq in Alaska during the 1920s.

Scope and Contents:

Copy negatives include N35373-N35398. Photographic prints include P08480-P08506.

Arrangement:

Arranged by catalog number.

Biographical / Historical:

Merl LaVoy, one of the first internationally famous news photographers, was born in 1886. He was a Wisconsin native, but after his parents died when he was still a young boy, LaVoy moved to Oregon to live with his uncle. In 1907, LaVoy worked for the Great Northern Development Company, which was prospecting for copper on the Kotsina River in Alaska. In 1910, LaVoy agreed to join Herschel Parker and Belmore Browne as an expedition photographer for their 1912 hike of Mt. McKinley (the highest peak in North America, also known as Denali) in Alaska. This trip marked the beginning of his professional pursuit of photography; he subsequently marketed his Alaskan photographs to newspapers and magazines, and soon established himself as a photographer, documentary film maker, and cameraman for Pathé News, a British company that produced documentaries, newsreels, and cinemagazines (1910-1970). He also traveled across Europe to document World War I. During the 1920s, he carried out a detailed photographic study of native Alaskan life. LaVoy died in 1953 in South Africa, where he was working as a freelance photographer.

Provenance:

Gift of Merl LaVoy, 1927

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Photos N34398, N35398, P08505, and P08505 are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.

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.

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Merl LaVoy photographs from Alaska, image #, NMAI.AC.163, National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.163

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv472b8a777-adef-4ad1-8049-b6f390299329

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-163