Walter J. Lubken photographs of the Salt River, Rio Grande, and Yuma Projects
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 87-2H
name: label: Creator
content: Lubken, Walter J., 1881-1960
label: Names
content: Rio Grande Project (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Salt River Project.
label: Names
content: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
label: Names
content: Yuma Project (U.S.)
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: White Mountain
place: label: Place
content: Casa Grande (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: Mesilla Valley (N.M.)
label: Place
content: Fort Selden (N.M.)
creator: label: Creator
content: Lubken, Walter J., 1881-1960
culture: label: Culture
content: White Mountain Apache
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Apache
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Walter J. Lubken (1881–1960) was an official photographer for the United States Reclamation Service (now Bureau of Reclamation) from 1903 to 1917.  While in this position, he documented irrigation projects in the American West.  Lubken left the Reclamation Service and the photography profession in 1917, but returned to photograph the construction of the Hoover Dam (formerly Boulder Dam) in the 1930s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 2 Prints (albumen)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1904-1906
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: This collection was found in 1972, along with other collections in Photo Lot 87-2, as something which had been set aside as a "problem collection," though this may only reflect that was unprocessed.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.87-2H
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate for one image is available.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made during the Rio Grande Project in New Mexico, Salt River Project in Arizona, and Yuma Project in Arizona and California. The collection includes images of scenery, roads and wagons, Apache workers, dams, farms, and remains of Fort Selden, Fort McRae, and Mesilla Jail. There are also two images, possibly not made by Lubken and probably made before 1900, of Casa Grande castle.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Lubken can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Archives and Records Administration and the Sharlot Hall Museum hold photographs by Lubken.
label: Contained in
content: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collections, undated