Bureau of American Ethnology collection of photographs relating to exhibitions
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4322
name: label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
topic: label: Topic
content: Exhibitions
creator: label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 50 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (some made from original glass negatives))
label: Extent
content: 2 Transparencies
label: Extent
content: 59 Prints (copy prints and enlargements)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4322
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Transparencies
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Exhibition photographs depicting Native Americans (including studio portraits), as well as scenery and material culture. Includes material made for the Century of Progress exhibit as well as mounted photos and text used in the Regents' exhibit on the 1947 restoration program for the BAE's glass negatives. Photographs for the Century of Progress exhibit are mostly maps indicating locations of BAE work and information on the Bureau's publications and history.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Many of the original negatives for these photographs held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)