William M. Pennington photographs of Navajo people
name: label: Photographer
content: Pennington, William M.
label: Names
content: Updike, Lisle, 1890-1970 (possible photographer)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Pennington, William M.
culture: label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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content: William M. Pennington photographs of Navajo people
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: 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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Platinum prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1915-1925
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Marj Ulsamer in 1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.82-2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Platinum prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in H. Jackson Clark, Glass plates & wagon ruts: images of the Southwest by Lisle Updike and William Pennington, Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 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.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Pennington photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 59.