Victor Mindeleff photograph albums relating to Pueblo architecture
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4362
name: label: Creator
content: Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948
label: Photographer
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
label: Photographer
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
label: Photographer
content: Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Mishongnavi
place: label: Place
content: Arizona
label: Place
content: New Mexico
topic: label: Topic
content: Cliff-dwellings
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Pueblos
label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Creator
content: Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Tewa Pueblos
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Acoma Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
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content: Victor Mindeleff photograph albums relating to Pueblo architecture
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: In the 1880s, Victor Mindeleff (1860-1948) was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology to conduct studies of Pueblo architecture.  He hired His brother, Cosmos Mindeleff (1863-1938), to be his assistant. They worked at Zuni, Acoma, and Hopi villages, as well as among the Navajo; at ruins at Kin Tiel, Canyon de Chelly, and Chaco Canyon; and at Etowah Mound in Georgia.  Victor Mindeleff left the BAE in 1890 for a career in architecture.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 383 Prints (circa 383 prints, 3 photo albums, albumen )
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1879-1887
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Victor Mindeleff to Neil M. Judd, Curator in the Division of Archeology. Judd transferred the albums to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1942. A copy of correspondence (dated February 18, 1942) from Judd to Mindeleff regarding this transfer is available with collection.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4362
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates for some photographs available online.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Victor Mindeleff, "A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola," 8th BAE Annual Report, 1886-87, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Three photograph albums made by Victor Mindeleff documenting pueblo architecture, villages, and people.  Some photographs, including those published in the Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, were made by Hillers, according to notations on file prints in Bureau of American Ethnology.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Original negatives for some of these photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Mindeleff photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 78, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Victor Mindeleff's manuscript, Origins of Pueblo Architecture (1887), and correspondence describing his fieldwork can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Department of Anthropology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Aditional Mindeleff sketches, plans, and drawings relating to Pueblo architecture held in MS 2138 and MS 2621] in the National Anthropological Archives.
separatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Sketches and ground plans, also made by Victor Mindeleff or his brother Cosmos, were sent to the Bureau of American Ethnology with these photograph albums. They now form MS 2926 in the National Anthropological Archives.