Joseph C. Farber photographs of Native American life
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 78-1, NAA ACC 95-3
name: label: Creator
content: Farber, Joseph C., 1903-
label: Names
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) -- Exhibitions.
label: Names
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Names
content: Gorman, R. C. (Rudolph Carl), 1932-2005
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham)

San Ildefonso

Blackfoot

Sioux

Seminole

Chippewa

Inuit

Alaskan Eskimo

Athapaskan, Athabaskan

Iroquois
place: label: Place
content: North Carolina
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content: New York
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content: New Mexico
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content: Montana
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content: South Dakota
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content: Oklahoma
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content: Arizona
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content: California
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content: Florida
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content: Minnesota
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content: Alaska
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content: Alberta
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content: Washington (State)
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content: Barrow, Point (Alaska)
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content: Yuma County (Ariz.)
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content: Taos (N.M.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
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content: Vocational education
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content: Canoes and canoeing
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content: Boats and boating
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
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content: Dance
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content: Powwows
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content: Rodeos
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content: Building
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content: handicrafts
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content: Totem poles
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content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
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content: Agriculture
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content: Livestock
creator: label: Creator
content: Farber, Joseph C., 1903-
culture: label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
label: Culture
content: Onondaga
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content: Taos Indians
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content: Quinault
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content: Tlingit
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content: Akimel O'odham (Pima)
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content: Tewa Pueblos
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content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
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content: Diné (Navajo)
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content: Eskimos
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content: Sioux
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content: Lummi
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content: Haida
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content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
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content: Kootenai (Kutenai)
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content: Kiowa
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content: Mojave (Mohave)
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content: Miccosukee Seminole (Mikasuki)
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content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
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content: Chehalis
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content: Apache
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content: Athapascan Indians
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content: Cocopa
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content: Niuam (Comanche)
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content: Cherokee
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content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
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content: Acoma Pueblo
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content: Joseph C. Farber photographs of Native American life
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Joseph C. Farber (1903-1994) was a successful New York businessman and professional photographer.  He studied with Edward Steichen at the New York Camera Club in the 1920s. The prints in this collection resulted from a five-year project that involved travelling to Native communities throughout the United States to document modern Native American life. The project resulted in a book, Native Americans: 500 Years After (1975), as well as exhibits, including one in the National Museum of Natural History in 1976-1977.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6,000 Contact prints (circa 6000 contact prints (proof sheets))
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content: 6,000 Acetate negatives (circa)
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content: 8 Color transparencies
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content: 1,000 Items (circa 1000 enlarged prints: silver gelatin (some mounted for exhibition))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970-1975
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Some exhibition prints donated by Joseph C. Farber as part of the Natural History Museum's exhibit of his work, circa 1976. Rest of the collection donated by Farber's daughter, Joan Farber, after his death in 1994.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.78-1
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Contact prints
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content: Acetate negatives
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content: Color transparencies
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content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Joseph C. Farber, Native Americans: 500 Years After, New York: Crowell, 1975.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Partial inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made as part of Joseph C. Farber's project to document modern NAtive American everyday life.  Represented tribes include the Acoma, Apache, Blackfoot, Chehalis, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Cocopa, Dakota, Eskimo, Haida, Kiowa, Kutenai, Lummi, Mohave, Mohawk, Navaho, Northern Athabascan, Onandaga, Pima, Pueblo, Quinalt, Seminole, Taos, Tlingit, and Zuni.  Subject coverage is broad and varies from tribe to tribe. Included are portraits, as well as totem poles, carving, weaving, pottery, painitng, landscapes, boats and canoes, ceremonial regalia, camps, classes and vocational training, homes and traditional dwellings, construction projects, rodeos and powwows, dances, industries (including lumber), herding and ranching, agriculture, stores and storefronts, cliff dwellings, parades, crab cleaning, fishing, games, health care, legal processes, music, office work, sewing, vending, and a funeral.  There are also photographs of R. C. Gorman (and a letter from Gorman to Farber) and Fritz Shoulder (some in color).    

Farber's travels included Alaska (Point Barrow, Dead Horse, Glacier Bay, Haines, Hoona, Hydaberg, Ketchikan, Mount McKinley, Prudhoe Bay, Saxman, and Sitka); Alberta (Blackfeet Reservation); Arizona (Canyon de Chelly, Cocopa Reservation, Flagstaff, Kayenta, Monument Valley, Pima Reservation, Quechan Reservation, Mojave Reservation, and Yuma); California (Alcatraz, Oakland, and San Francisco); Florida (Big Cypress Reservation; Miccosukee Reservation); Minnesota (Minneapolis and Nett Lake); Montana (Northern Cheyenne Reservation); New Mexico (Acoma, Gallup, Navajo Forest, Picuris, Puye, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Santa Fe, Taos, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and Tesuque); New York (New York City and Onandaga Reservation); North Carolina (Cherokee Reservation); Oklahoma (Anadarko, Apache, Lawton, Stilwell, and Tahlequah); South Dakota (Rosebud and Wounded Knee); and Washington (Lummi Reservation, Nisqually River, Puyallup River, and Quinalt Reservation).
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Farber's photographs, previously located in Photo Lot 95-3 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 78-1. These photographs were also made by Joseph C. Farber and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Museum of American History Archives Center holds the Joseph Farber Papers and Photographs, circa 1962-1990.