Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Platinum prints
Photographs
Date:
circa 1915-1925
Scope and Contents note:
The collection comprises mostly portraits of Diné/Navajo individuals as well as several photographs of people with horses. A list of identifications accompanies the photographs.
Biographical/Historical note:
From 1908-1911, William M. Pennington and Lisle Updike operated the Pen-Dike Studio in Durango, Colorado. Pennington's main focus was studio portraiture while Updike took mostly landscape photographs. In 1911, Pennington bought out Updike's share in the studio and renamed it the Pennington Studio. Pennington and Updike worked together again in the early 1920s photographing the Navajo community in and around Shiprock, New Mexico; the photographs in this collection are probably from that assignment.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional Pennington photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 59.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 82-2, William M. Pennington photographs of Navajo people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This collection contains 20 color slides shot by Suzanne Aurelio in 1974. The slides depict Maya, Olmec, and Zapotec archaeological sites in Mexico.
Scope and Contents:
S05113-S05132
This collection contains 20 color slides depicting Maya, Olmec, Zapotec, and possibly Aztec archaeological ruins in Mexico. The photographs were shot by Suzanne Aurelio in 1974.
Sites include La Venta ruins in Tabasco, Mexico; ruins at Palenque Mexico; Monte Alban ruinds in Oaxaca, Mexico; and a replica of the Maya ruin Edificio De Hochob in Campeche State at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.
Arrangement:
Arranged by catalog number.
Biographical / Historical:
Suzanne Aurelio (nee Berger; 1931-2021) spent most of her life in New York. As a young adult, Aurelio became intrested in Mexico and she travelled extensively throughout that country, studying the language and the art and visiting remote indigenous villages. Back in New York, she work as an operating room nurse at several New York hospitals. She was the wife of Richard Aurelio and mother to dauther Jodi and son Marcus.
Related Materials:
A sound cassette with Suzanne Aurelio in the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, NMAI.AC.001.003.
Provenance:
Gift of Suzanne Aurelio, 1974.
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).
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); Suzanne Aurelio photographs from Mexico, image #, NMAI.AC.396; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Photograph depicting the replica of Maya ruin Edificio De Hochob in Campeche State at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Photograph by Suzanne Aurelio, 1974.
Collection 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).
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); Suzanne Aurelio photographs from Mexico, image #, NMAI.AC.396; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.