E. Reeseman Fryer photograph collection inventory |
Years this
material was created: circa 1935-1989
Quantity: 1,084 photoprints and
667 film transparencies: a total of 1,751 photographic images, in 3
document cases and 1 flat lidded box
©2005-2007 by Fort
Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account
(Milton "Jack" Snow photo at right:
dipping sheep at Klagetoh, Arizona, 1938)
Links to contents
Introduction/ Scope and contents
This is a collection of photos of the Southwest by Milton "Jack" Snow and others.
| Click here to view the guide to collection M 179: E. Reeseman Fryer papers, 1925-1991 (12.5 linear shelf feet, in 27 document cases) |
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Right: typescript copy of a letter to Mr. Fryer from Tom Lewis, ca. late 1930s, as told to his daughter Isabella Lewis of Sanders, expressing his concern about the hardships of the stock reduction and a plea for an increase in the allowable number of grazing sheep. The actual typescript copy is in Collection M 179, Box 3, Folder 17. |
Above: photo of Mr. Fryer riding his favorite horse, Witch, to meet with Navajo tribal members at Window Rock, Arizona (where he was then based) in early 1942 to tell them that World War II had begun and to let them know that they would be liable for the draft. |
Administrative information
About the organization of this collection: The photonegatives are in their original arrangement, which is quite inconsequential, as the access is at the item level for this collection of photographs.
Acquisition information: Members of the Fryer family donated these photographs (along with a large quantity of papers and printed materials) to the Center of Southwest Studies beginning in July of 1998. At the time of its donation of these materials (24 linear shelf feet of unprocessed material forming accession 1998:07007, followed by a 4 linear shelf feet accretion that is 1998:09001), the family expressed its desire that the collection be preserved intact as a documentation of the life, with the understanding that non-Southwest materials of historical interest will be processed with the other materials but may not be given the level of cataloging access as the Southwest records.
Processing information: Numerous Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies archival workers, assistants, and a contract worker (Nik Kendziorski, who worked on the metadata in the winter and spring of 2005) have devoted many hours to the arrangement and description of this collection, beginning with moving the negatives into sequentially numbered pH-neutral archival storage sleeves while retaining any information that was written on the original acidic brown envelopes that housed the negatives. Negative #s (numbered in the Center's single numbering scheme for photonegatives) 3185 through 3228 are now cataloged at the item level in the Center's database of images. This inventory was initially prepared by J. Todd Ellison, C.A., beginning on June 30, 2005 and continued until its completion with Professional Archival Intern Jerrid Lee Miller during the months of March and April of 2007.
Provenance: The family explained that Mrs. E. Reeseman Fryer (the widow) had selected the most valuable materials each time the family had to move, which was often and usually intercontinental. The extended family (daughters, grandchildren and relatives) sorted some of the material further before shipping it from the couple's (Si and Nonie's) final family home on Jekyll Island in Georgia to the Fryer ~ Van Fossen ~ Ward residence in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The family gathered in Pagosa Springs in July of 1998 to decide the final disposition of the materials and to pull from it any personal financial and medical records, and met with the archivist at the family home on July 21, 1998, when the collection was donated to the Center of Southwest Studies. The family had considered other colleges and universities as a possible home for this material but chose Fort Lewis because of its location central to the heart of the Southwest focus of this collection.
Related collections elsewhere: Photos by Milton "Jack" Snow are also at the Navajo Nation Museum (Window Rock, Ariz.) and at the Palace of the Governors (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Series descriptions
Series 1: Navajo Reservation and related
topics, photoprints, circa 1936-1985 (bulk 1930-1942). In Boxes 1
through 3. Grouped by name of photographer (unknown; E. Reeseman
Fryer; and Milton "Jack" Snow), then by overall
subject. 376 photoprints.
Series 2: Bureau of Indian Affairs and related topics, photoprints, circa 1960-1968. In Box 4, folders 1-6. Most pertain to E. Reeseman Fryer. 69 photoprints.
Series 3: South America and related topics, photoprints, circa 1945-1947. In Box 4, folders 1-6. Most are of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Bolivia and Peru. 203 photoprints.
Series 4: North Africa and related topics, photoprints, 1943-1944. In Box 4, folders 1-4. Most are of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in North Africa during World War II. 87 photoprints.
Series 5: Middle East and the Mediterranean and related topics, photoprints, 1951-1959. In Box 5, folders 1-9. Most are of E. Reeseman Fryer's visits with diplomats, VIPs, and administrators in Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon and with Middle Eastern diplomats in Washington, D.C., etc. 148 photoprints.
Series 6: Miscellaneous topics, photos, circa 1940-1978. In Box 5, folders 1-14. Includes film transparency views (in folders 1-10; circa 1940-1978) of the Navajo Reservation and elsewhere in the American Southwest and other places Fryer visited, and photoprints (in folders 11-14; circa 1890-1989) of Fryer family members, E. Reeseman Fryer's personal art collection taken at his home in Jekyll Island, Georgia, and various other topics of interest to Mr. Fryer. 667 slides and 190 photoprints.
Series 7: Oversized photoprints, circa 1930-1961. In Box 6, folders 1-3. Various subjects pertaining to E. Reeseman Fryer's life and travels in the Southwest and elsewhere. 11 photoprints.
Container list (overview of boxes and folders)
Series 1: Navajo Reservation and related topics, photoprints, in Boxes 1 through 3:
Box 1: Navajo Reservation and related topics, regular size photoprints
Folder 1 Navajo government related photoprints, 1936-1964. Contains 12 photographs of E. Reeseman Fryer posing with the Navajo Nation constitutional delegation, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials, Navajo Nation delegates as well as several other dignitaries.
Folder 2 Department of Justice photoprints,
October 1985. Contains 42 photos taken
by E. Reeseman Fryer of various Navajo Reservation landscapes that include
the chapter areas of Pinon, Many Farms, Rough Rock and the Utah area of the
reservation.
Folder 3 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1938. Contains 8 photographs of the Navajo Reservation that include sheep dipping, landscape pictures and an outdoor meeting held in Window Rock, Arizona.
Folder 4 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, circa 1937-1963. Contains 32 photoprints that include the Navajo Nation Council group portrait of 1963, a women tug-of-war contest, individual portraits as well as other photos.
Folder 5 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, 1938-1941.Contains 20 photoprints that include a Navajo Tribal fair, freight wagons, the Cow Springs Trading Post as well as other related photos.
Folder 6 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, 1939. Contains 15 photographs relating to the Navajo Nation that include the artist Tsinanahjinni, fry bread, starving horses, the Pine Springs Trading Post as well as other pictures depicting life on the Navajo grazing lands.
Folder 7 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, 1940-1942. Contains 11 photographs that include a tug-of- war between women, pictures of chapter house delegates from Tuba City and Fort Defiance, a picture of a freight wagon loaded with hay as well as several other pictures.
Folder 8 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, undated. Contains 27 photoprints of various subjects that include different hogan styles, Window Rock landscape photos, various individual and group portraits (one that includes Chee Dodge) as well as an assortment of other photoprints.
Folder 9 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow et al., U.S. Indian Service, undated. Contains 17 photoprints of various topics that include grazing, the tuberculosis sanitarium at Fort Defiance, Navajo Mountain as well as livestock pins.
Folder 10 Navajo Reservation photoprints by Milton "Jack" Snow, 1930-1945. Gift of Sue Fryer Ward (accession 2007:075, items 3 through 31), described as follows:
| Image Number: | Title | Date Item Created: | Item Description |
| 2007:075.003 | Allen Long, Cherokee of North Carolina, making a Booger Mask | 1930/1945 | Allen Long, Cherokee of North Carolina, making a Booger Mask from buckeye wood, circa. 1930s-1940s. |
| 2007:075.004 | Cherokee Indian girl of North Carolina. | 1930/1945 | Cherokee Indian girl of North Carolina. |
| 2007:075.005 | The winning side of a "tug of war" at the Navajo Tribal Fair in 1939 | 1939 | A b/w view of ten Navajo women holding the rope in a "tug of war" at the Navajo Tribal Fair in 1939. |
| 2007:075.006 | Bronco rider at the Navajo Tribal Fair | Other Navajo men watch a horseback rider at the Navajo Tribal Fair in 1939. | |
| 2007:075.007 | Bronco
rider and audience at the Navajo Tribal Fair |
1939 | Other Navajo men on horseback watch a bronco rider at the Navajo Tribal Fair in 1939. |
| 2007:075.008 | Dipping sheep at Klagetoh | 1938 | A b/w image of Navajo women (and men, in the background) dipping sheep at Klagetoh (in Apache County, Arizona). |
| 2007:075.009 | Father Haile, of St. Michaels, hold[ing] a class for interpreters at Window Rock | 1939 | A b/w view of a Catholic priest, Father Haile, of St. Michaels, standing between a seated Navajo man and a standing Navajo man neat the blackboard at the front of a classroom of interpreters at Window Rock, 1939 |
| 2007:075.010 | Tribal Council of Navajo in session, Window Rock, Ariz. | 1938 | A b/w view of Navajos seated in the Navajo Tribal Council chambers in Window Rock, Arizona, in 1938. |
| 2007:075.011 | Navajo Indian Service pickup truck with crew | 1938/1939 | A b/w view of a Navajo Indian Service pickup truck with a man in the back speaking through a megaphone, a man on the ground with his right hand on the hood, a driver with a pith helmet on his head, and others around the vehicle. |
| 2007:075.012 | A CCC camp | 1938/1939 |  A b/w view
of activity on the grounds of a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
camp, probably in Navajo country. Tents and buildings are in the
background. |
| 2007:075.013 | Shonot Trading Post, Western Navajo | 1939 | A b/w view of two mules hitched to a wagon at the Shonot Trading Post, Western Navajo, 1939. |
| 2007:075.014 | Effect of wind erosion and overgrazing on Navajo reservation | 1936 | A view of sand and deforestation around a substantial dwelling, showing the effects of wind erosion and overgrazing on Navajo reservation in 1936. |
| 2007:075.015 | Window Rock | 1940 | An aerial view of the tribal government buildings at Window Rock, Arizona, in 1940. |
| 2007:075.016 | Asst. Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman and [E. Reeseman Fryer] preparing for take off of flight to Denver from Window Rock's airstrip 1938 - Bill Cutter pilot not shown | Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman and [E. Reeseman Fryer] preparing for take off of flight to Denver from Window Rock's airstrip 1938 - Bill Cutter pilot not shown | |
| 2007:075.017 | Tsihnnahjinnie | 1939 | Portrait of Tsihnnahjinnie sitting and leaning against a stone block wall of a house. He is wearing a light and dark colored jacket that zips up the front. According to Sue Fryer on 7/11/2007, this Navajo young man planted the watermelon patch E. Reeseman Fryer's place at Lee's Ferry. See Negative 3185 for a similar photo. |
| 2007:075.018 | Beginners and teacher Betty Schoonover, Crown Point Boarding School, N.M. | 1945-09-19 | A b/w view of young students and their Anglo woman teacher Betty Schoonover (sp?) around the steps of the Crown Point Boarding School. |
| 2007:075.019 | 1936/1939 | A male Anglo clinical worker (holding a test tube) and Navajo around a microscope outdoors. | |
| 2007:075.020 | 1936/1939 | A distant view of Navajo tribal buildings at Window Rock, Arizona. | |
| 2007:075.021 | Overflow crowd of Navajos listening to proceedings of Tribal Council transmitted by "loud" speaker, Window Rock | 1938 | A b/w view of Navajo and many vehicles in the plaza near the flagpole amidst the tribal buildings at Window Rock, Arizona. |
| 2007:075.022 | John Collier Comm'r Indian Affairs, E. Reeseman Fryer General Superintendent of Navajo, and Moris [sic] Burge representative of Indian Association | 1938 | John Collier (Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with a cigarette in his mouth) E. Reeseman Fryer (General Superintendent of the Navajo Agency), and Morris Burge (representative of Indian Association are standing, gazing into the sky. Several Navajos are also standing nearby. They are watching an airplane doing aerial stunts… …to entertain several thousand Navajos and others in attendance at the very first Navajo Tribal Fair, held at Window Rock, Arizona, in 1938. |
| 2007:075.023 | Navajo sheep | 1936/1939 | A distant dark view of a flock of Navajo sheep with a mountain range in the distance. |
| 2007:075.024 | A "subsistence herd" crudely shorn at the hogan of its owners, Eastern Navajo | 1937 | A b/w view of shorn sheep near an Eastern Navajo hogan. |
| 2007:075.025 | Navajo family, Consumption Unit on the move, Red Lake area | 1939 | A b/w view of a Navajo family and their sheep moving with two gray horses attached to a wagon and a youth on horseback behind, in the Red Lake area of Arizona. |
| 2007:075.026 | Government windmill installation, Navajo Reservation | 1939 | Two b/w views of a government windmill installation, Navajo Reservation, showing the high degree of wind erosion and range loss due to overgrazing in vicinity of stock water. [text is from back of envelope] |
| 2007:075.027 | Surplus horses watering at a Navajo Reservation windmill | 1939 | A b/w view of horses drinking at a trough of a government installed windmill on the Navajo Reservation, showing the high degree of wind erosion and range loss due to overgrazing in vicinity of stock water. [text is from back of envelope] |
| 2007:075.028 | E. Reeseman Fryer, General Superintendent, Navajo Reservation | 1936 | A b/w photo of E. Reeseman Fryer, General Superintendent, Navajo Reservation, at his desk in Window Rock, Arizona in 1936, with a Navajo weaving partially visible on the wall behind him. |
| 2007:075.029 | A just-born lamb on a badly denuded Navajo range | 1936/1939 | A b/w picture of an ewe with her newborn lamb. |
| 2007:075.030 | A Tribal meeting about "horse reduction," Scott Preston, Tribal delegate, speaking, Tonalea area, Western Navajo | 1940 | A b/w picture of a crowd of Navajo men (those in the foreground are on horseback) listening to Scott Preston, Tribal delegate, who is standing and speaking about horse reduction, in the Tonalea area, Western Navajo, 1940. |
| 2007:075.031 | Navajo cowboy | 1936/1939 | A b/w picture of a Navajo rider lassooing a calf as other Navajo men watch. |
Folder 11 Navajo Reservation improvements photoprints,
circa 1930s. Contains 35 photos
detailing economic improvements on the Navajo Reservation during the
"Collier Era" that include depictions of the cannery at Many Farms, the
Navajo Tribal flour mill, road improvements, the newly constructed tribal
complex in Window Rock as well as several other photos relating to
agriculture.
Folder 12 Navajo Reservation agriculture photoprints, circa 1930s. Contains 20 photos detailing the Northern Naschiti Irrigation Project with regard to surrounding hogans, canal ditches, field work as well as other relevant images.
Folder 13 Navajo Reservation: Window Rock, Arizona photoprints, circa 1930s. Contains 32 photos detailing the at the time, newly-built tribal complex in Window Rock, nearby landscapes, local meetings as well as other relevant photos.
Folder 14 Navajo Reservation landscape photoprints, circa 1930s-1940s. Contains 31 photos of various subjects that depict the cannery at Many Farms, the Window Rock Public Library, the Mexican Springs Trading Post, the saw mill at Fort Defiance, starving horses on open range land as well as several other related images.
Folder 15 Navajo Reservation landscape photoprints, circa mid-20th century. Contains 32 photos of various areas of the Navajo Reservation that include the Window Rock Airlines out of Window Rock, Arizona, Dine College in Tsaile, Arizona, the Navajo Veterans Cemetery in Fort Defiance, Arizona, the Round Rock Trading Post as well as several other landscape photos.
Folder 16 E. Reeseman Fryer photographs, 1934-1979. Gift of Sue Fryer Ward (accession 2007:075, items 42 through 55, and 62), described as follows:
| Image Number: | Title | Date Item Created: | Item Description |
| 2007:075.042 | Prize winning lambs | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of four Navajo men, each posing with a lamb, "shown at a breeding demonstration and stock judging contest held in Ganado [Apache County, Arizona] in the 1930s as part of the federal government's program to improve the quality of Navajo livestock." (text quoted is probably by E. R. Fryer). Also, an 8x10" sepia-colored enlargement of this same view. |
| 2007:075.043 | Learning to spin | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of two Navajo girls -- the one on the viewer's left is carding, the one on the right is spinning. The girl on the left is visible in another Fryer photo that shows the same garments hanging behind. |
| 2007:075.044 | Erosion control structures | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of fences built across an arroyo. Fryer's caption on the back of this photoprint reads, "An example of simple erosion control structures built for several miles at right angles to stream flow in many of the badly eroding arroyos in the central part of the Navajo Reservation. These simple structures were designed to capture moving tumble weeds and hold them in place against the currents of flash floods; to slow the velocity of the water and force a deposition of silts. They worked well as 'nature's helpers' in characteristic low-level floods but washed out in the occasional flash torrents. Note: see the cylinders on the left bottom of the arroyo. These were wire baskets filled with rock to so deflect floods as to hold them in midstream and thus lessen soil losses." |
| 2007:075.045 | A volcanic survivor | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of a sandstone geological formation. E. R. Fryer described it as "a volcanic survivor in a range so overgrazed that grasses have been displaced by rabbit brush and other unpalatable species of vegetation, leaving the land subject to wind and sheet erosion as made evident by the build-up of dunes deposited by the wind against the 'rock-with-a-hole-in-its-head.'" |
| 2007:075.046 | Navajo Tribal Council is in session | 1941 | A b/w overview photo of the buildings and parking area while the Tribal Council was in session in 1941 at Window Rock. |
| 2007:075.047 | Navajo CCC project | 1937 |  A b/w
photo of Navajo CCC enrollees constructing a "head structure" to
prevent the continuing advance of a gully up a once richly grassed
valley. The photo shows the depth of the highly erosive soils in
this gully. This is a 1937 photo taken in the Ganado area. (This
text is from Fryer's caption on the back of the photoprint.) |
| 2007:075.048 | Typhoid fever | 1938 | A b/w photo of a laboratory technician and a woman preparing to inoculate Navajo children in the Crown Point area in 1938. Fryer's text on the reverse of this photoprint reads, "Typhoid fever, increasingly rare in the rest of the country, cropped up every summer in many parts of the Navajo [reservation] die to the failure of the people to follow the recommendations of the medical service to boil water taken from stock tanks or other infected sources. |
| 2007:075.049 | CCC-built rock basket type check dam | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of a completed CCC-built rock basket type check dam, an attempt to control erosion in an arroyo in barren land. In his text on the reverse of this photoprint Fryer draws attention to the "threatened hogan" in the background. |
| 2007:075.050 | Tribal buildings at Window Rock | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of a string of low Navajo Tribal buildings at Window Rock. |
| 2007:075.051 | School house with Window Rock in the background | 1935/1939 | A b/w photo of a stone Navajo school building with Window Rock in the background. |
| 2007:075.052 | Navajo Tribal HQ photo | 1935/1939 | A somewhat murky b/w photo of Navajo Tribal headquarters at Window Rock. |
| 2007:075.053 | Erosion control engineering on hillside | 1934-11-05 | A b/w photo of a CCC-built dam constructed for the purpose of halting erosion. With matching negative. |
| 2007:075.054 | Group photo | 1950/1969 | Two similar b/w Polaroid photos of four men (five, in one view) standing in front of a welcome banner. E. Reeseman Fryer is on the viewer's right; U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall is third in from the right. |
| 2007:075.055 | Woman speaker | 1960/1979 | A b/w photo of an unidentified woman speaking. |
| 2007:075.062 | BIA Branch of Land Operations group photo | 1963 | A b/w photo of eight men standing in front of a building, outside. E. Reeseman Fryer is the second from the viewer's right in in the rear, standing next to a man (on the end on the viewer's right) tentatively identified as Morris Burge. |
Folder 17 Photographs of E. Reeseman Fryer, 1939-1967. Gift of Sue Fryer Ward (accession 2007:075, items 63 through 65), described as follows:
| Image Number: | Title | Date Item Created: | Item Description |
| 2007:075.063 | E. R. Fryer at the ceremonial slaughter of a buffalo | 1939 | A b/w photo of E. Reeseman Fryer standing in front of two Navajo men who are skinning a buffalo as younger Navajo watch through the fence. Writing on the back of this photoprint reads, "ERF at the "ceremonial killing" and the distribution of the medicinal parts of the buffalo slaughtered at the Navajo Tribal Fair Oct. 1939 - Wiindow Rock, Arizona. (Genitals, horn and other designated parts were cut in small pieces and distributed to the 40 or so Medicine Men who had come to the Fair to get such "potent parts" for their medicine pouches)." Signed, "Better late than never - best wishes, Helen M. Post." |
| 2007:075.064 | Dedication of Hopi Industrial Site, Winslow, Arizona, group photo | 1966-12 | A b/w group photo of ten men and a Native woman (in traditional dress) standing at a Hopi industrial park site dedication. E. Reeseman Fryer is standing on the viewer's far left. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall is fifth from the left. This photo is stamped "copyrighted 1966." To use, obtain written permission from Winslow Photo Supply, Q. Rhoton, 110 W 2nd, Winslow, Arizona. |
| 2007:075.065 | E. R. Fryer's second retirement party photos | 1967 | Three b/w photo contact sheets containing 29 images of proofs of pictures taken at the second retirement party for E. Reeseman Fryer in Washington, D.C., in 1967. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall is pictured in Nos. 10 and 11; other photos in the series are of BIA staff in the D.C. office. |
| Number: | Title | Date Item Created: | Item Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007:075.032 | Four types of well construction and/or improved hogans | 1940 | Four b/w pictures of four types of Navajo hogans (walls of log, stone, clapboard). The four photos are matted together on a board that measures 13" by 16". The Center of Southwest Studies has a photonegative of each of these, elsewhere in the Fryer collection, neg. #s 3207-3210. |
| 2007:075.033 | Two-horse wagon in front of a Navajo Chindi-type hogan | 1939 | Two-horse wagon in front of a Navajo Chindi-type hogan. "During the century before the end of the second world war, the two-horse wagon was as much a part of Navajo life and culture as the land itself. Milton (Jack) snow had a special affinity for its form and beauty. Among his best photographs are those...Navajo hogan and wagon in the cedars, on a stormy day. Possibly abandoned because of death. …taken of the skeletal remains of Navajo wagons. This photograph is a prize-winning example. It also suggests a `Chindi' setting, for a hogan abandoned because of death." [text by E.R. Fryer?] |
| 2007:075.056 | Water spreading structure | 1955 | A b/w photonegative of a water spreading structure on the Navajo Reservation. |
| 2007:075.057 | Horses at a Navajo well | 1955 | A b/w photonegative of five saddled horses standing beneath a windmill by a well on the Navajo reservation. Fryer's writing on the negative sleeve reads, "Loose unbroken horses and surplus to actual need [illegible word] and remain primary destroyers [?] of rangeland. |
| 2007:075.058 | Navajo man and woman filling water barrel at Red Lake (Tonalea) | 1940-06 | A b/w photonegative of Navajo man and woman filling water barrel on their wagon as two horses in harness wait, at Red Lake (Tonalea). |
| 2007:075.059 | Navajo Tribal Headquarters plaza gathering | 1955 | A b/w photonegative of Navajos seated in the plaza at the Navajo Tribal Headquarters; parked automobiles are in the background. |
| 2007:075.060 | Improved Navajo rams | 1942-10 | A close-up b/w photonegative of rams grazing on the Navajo Reservation, one-half mile south of SW Sheepbread near Fort Wingate, New Mexico. |
| 2007:075.061 | Sheep on good range and bad range | 1955 | A composite b/w photonegative of sheep grazing on the Navajo Reservation. The top view is near Window Rock. The lower view is on the Lockett Range near Flagstaff, Arizona. Fryer noted on the negative sleeve that this is "one of Clay's double pictures." |
Box 2: Navajo Reservation and related topics, oversize size photoprints
Folder 1 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1938. Contains 4 photographs taken by Milton "Jack" Snow that include images of a water storage tank, a woman spinning wool, a Navajo woman and her child as well as an image of an unidentified man.
Folder 2 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1939. Contains 6 photographs taken by Milton "Jack" Snow that include images of a steam shovel, a Navajo woman, an unmanned wagon, a hogan and a depiction of two sheep.
Folder 3 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1940-1956. Contains 7 photographs taken by Milton "Jack" Snow that include images of a Navajo woman in a rug dress, an aspen tree by a lake, an aerial view of the Navajo Nation council house in Window Rock, Arizona as well as portraits of an unidentified child, Billie Cornfield's sister, Judge Max Little Salt and another aerial view of an unidentified area of the Navajo Reservation.
Folder 4 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, undated. Contains 5 photographs taken by Milton "Jack" Snow that include images of an aerial view of Navajo farmlands along the San Juan River, an unidentified school, the making of adobe bricks, a group photo of John Collier and E. Reeseman Fryer, a demonstration hogan.
Folder 5 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1935-1949. Gift of Sue Fryer Ward (accession 2007:075, items 34 through 41), described as follows:
| Image Number: | Title | Date Item Created: | Item Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007:075.034 | Navajos come to trade and get water at government deep well installation at a trading post in the Chinle Valley | 1941 | A matted b/w picture of a two-horse Navajo wagon at a well near a trading post in the Chinle Valley of Arizona. |
| 2007:075.035 | Navajo assigned land on the Many Farms irrigation project: plowing out an extension to an irrigation ditch | 1938/1949 | A matted b/w picture of two Navajo men standing behind a two-horse plow, breaking barren ground in the Many Farms area of Apache County, Arizona. Two other persons are visible in the distant, atop a wooden structure. |
| 2007:075.036 | Navajo searching for wood in the near treeless barrens of the Upper Chinle Valley | 1940 | A matted b/w picture of a Navajo person standing by a two-horse wagon on a treeless expanse in the Upper Chinle Valley of Apache County, Arizona. |
| 2007:075.037 | Portion of the Fruitland irrigation project | 1939 | A matted b/w panoramic picture of (in the words of E. R. Fryer, very likely) a "portion of the Fruitland irrigation project set aside for growing fruit trees stock for use on project by Navajos holding agricultural land assignments and additionally to grow cottonwoods and willows for transplanting to arroyas for erosion control. |
| 2007:075.038 | Judge Max Littlesalt | 1936/1939 | A matted b/w portrait photo of Judge Max Littlesalt, whom Fryer described as "one of the outstanding Navajo silver smiths of the 1930s." |
| 2007:075.039 | Windmill and tank | 1939 | A matted b/w photo of cattle at a watering trough near a windmill and water storage tank, beneath a cloudy sky. |
| 2007:075.040 | Pine Springs | 1935/1939 | A matted b/w photo of a stone building with a horse tied to a tree in front and a Coca Cola sign on its side against a wooden fence. |
| 2007:075.041 | Cow Springs trading post | 1935 | A matted b/w photo of the entrance door and sign of the Cow Springs trading post, between Kayenta and Tonalea, Arizona. Dark letters on a white sign read, "Cow Springs Trading Post / General Merchandise." There is an image of a Navajo weaving between the words "General Merchandise". The building is made of sandstone. |
Box 3: Navajo Reservation and related topics, oversize size photoprints, continued
Folder 1 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1937-1956. Contains 7 photographs taken by Milton "Jack" Snow on 13.5 x 11'' poster board that include pictures of hogans, children playing at a boarding school, a government well , a new school in Tuba City as well as an aerial photo of the Navajo Tribal Fair Grounds in Window Rock, Arizona.
Folder 2 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1938-1940. Contains 7 photographs taken by Milton "Jack" Snow on 20 x 16" poster board that includes pictures of Pete Price, John Collier, a wagon by a hogan, construction on an irrigation ditch as well as several other photographs.
Folder 3 Milton "Jack" Snow photographs, 1938-1955.
Contains 6 photographs taken by
Milton "Jack" Snow on 20 x16" poster board that includes pictures of a well
dressed Navajo woman, a watering pond, the Shiprock geological formation and
a Navajo woman spinning wool.
Box 4 (Series 2 through 4):
Series 2: Bureau of Indian Affairs related photoprints
Folder 1 Group photoprints, circa 1960-1968. Includes 11 photographs of E. Reeseman Fryer in various group photographs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Folder 2 Group photoprints, undated. Includes 14 photographs of E. Reeseman Fryer in various group photographs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Folder 3 Speaking engagement photoprints (Crow Reservation, Montana), 1964-1966. Includes 4 photoprints of E. Reeseman Fryer speaking on the Crow Reservation in Montana.
Folder 4 Speaking engagement photoprints, undated. Includes 28 photographs of E. Reeseman Fryer at various speaking engagements on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Folder 5 John Collier related photoprints, 1964 May, 4th. Includes 8 photoprints depicting John Collier, E. Reeseman Fryer as well as several other prominent Bureau of Indian Affairs officials taken at Ranch de Taos, New Mexico on May 4th, 1964.
Folder 6
Branch of Land Operations (Pyramid Lake, Nevada), 1962-1963. Includes 4
photos that show water development on the Pyramid Lake Reservation in
western Nevada.
Series 3: South America related photoprints
Folder 1 Bolivian related photoprints, 1945-1947. Contains 47 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Bolivia that include pictures of a Spanish colonial style church, a local gathering, boat transportation on Lake Titicaca, a boa skin being stretched out by three men, deforestation of the jungle and group portraits.
Folder 2 Bolivian related photoprints, 1945-1947. Contains 42 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Bolivia that include pictures of Simon Bolivar's former house, deforestation of the jungle, landscape scenes and work villages.
Folder 3 Bolivian related photoprints, 1945-1947. Contains 16 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Bolivia that include pictures of group portraits, the commercial airlines of Bolivia as well as portraits of the Bolivian and Argentinean delegations.
Folder 4 Peruvian related photoprints, 1946. Contains 6 photoprints of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in Peru that includes images of sheep, llamas and a boat.
Folder 5 Other South American related photoprints, 1945-1947. Contains 48 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in South America that include images of tractors in rice fields, crop cultivation, agriculture equipment as well as other related interests.
Folder 6
Other South American related photoprints, 1945-1947. Contains 44 photos of
E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in South America that include images of Mr. and
Mrs. Fryer at the beach, a market place, the Andes Mountains, a hacienda as
well as several other group portraits and agricultural related images.
Series 4: North Africa related photoprints
Folder 1 World War II related photoprints, 1943-1944. Contains 20 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in North Africa during World War II that include images of destroyed German Tiger I tanks, a downed American plane, downed German planes as well as images of battlefield graveyards and a British Memorial of the 4th Indian Regiment on the Meredith Line.
Folder 2 Cosmopolitan related photoprints, 1943-1944. Includes 23 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in the urban centers of Algiers and Cairo during World War II.
Folder 3 Rural landscape related photoprints, 1943-1944. Contains 30 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's travels in North Africa during World War II that depict the surrounding rural landscapes of small Algerian villages, North African road signs and grazing livestock and camels.
Folder 4 Roman civilization
ruins related photoprints, 1943-1944. Contains 14 photos of E. Reeseman
Fryer's travels in North Africa during World War II that depict Roman
aqueduct systems in Tunisia, the Roman coliseum of El Jefe as well as
several pillars and arches.
Box 5 (Series 5 and 6):
Series 5: Middle East and Mediterranean related photoprints
Folder 1 Egypt related photoprints, 1953-1959. Contains 12 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer and Egyptian diplomats (both in Egypt and Washington D.C.) dealing with topics of housing, foreign exchange students and commerce, including a picture of dictator and president General Mohamed Naquib.
Folder 2 Iran related photoprints, 1951-1959. Contains 5 photos taken in Iran that include a hunting trip with the Shah of Iran and several other Iranian dignitaries, a landscape photograph taken in the Isfahan Province as well as a dinner party where both E. Reeseman Fryer and the Shah of Iran are sitting at the same table.
Folder 3 Israel related photoprints, 1951-1955 November. Includes 17 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer and other technical cooperation administrators for the State Department touring Israel to include such sites as irrigation dams, villages, the Caesarian ruins, a Palestinian refugee camp as well as other related photos of later trips taken by E. Reeseman Fryer
Folder 4 Jordan related photoprints, 1954-1960. Contains 31 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's trip to Jordan that includes images of him camel riding, meeting with sheiks as well as several other related photos.
Folder 5 Lebanon related photoprints, 1955-1958. Includes 41 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer attending several social events in Beirut in the company of the local social notables.
Folder 6 Visiting delegations to Washington D.C. related photoprints, 1951-1955. Contains 10 photos of foreign delegations visiting the State Department in Washington D.C. during E. Reeseman Fryer's tenure there. Includes visiting delegations from Ethiopia (1951), Saudi Arabia (1952, 1954) and Iraq (1952).
Folder 7 Landscape related photoprints, circa 1950s. Includes 20 photos of landscapes in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin that include Greek tsolias (traditionally dressed Greek soldiers) standing by Greek ruins, the Parthenon, the Acropolis, the Sea of Galilee, the interior of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as well as several street scenes in Beirut, Lebanon.
Folder 8 Roman civilization ruins related photoprints, circa 1950s. Includes 4 photos of the Roman ruins at Amman, Jordan and Baalbek, Lebanon.
Folder 9 Other related
photoprints, 1952. Includes 8 photos of some of Rome, Italy's
most prominent sites including the Foro Romano E Palatino, the bridge across
the Tiber River, the Marcus Aurillius Plaza, the Allegro Pines and St.
Peter's Cathedral. Of special note is the group of people in the photos
identified as the Dr. Bennett party. According to the back of one of the
photos, all of the party (with the except of E. Reeseman Fryer and an
American embassy worker who left the group) were killed in a plane crash
three days later in Tehran, Iran in the spring of 1952. Note: According to
recent research, the plane crash in question actually occurred on December
25th of the year rather then in the spring as recorded on the photo.
Series 6: Miscellaneous topics, photoprints
Folder 1 Friends and travels of E. Reeseman Fryer slides, circa mid-20th century. Contains 185 slides of E. Reeseman Fryer and his family's friends and travels in the Middle East, Europe, Russia as well as several other unidentified tourist definitions.
Folder 2 Lee's Ferry Ranch slides, 1967-1978. Contains 179 slides of the Fryer ranch and related images in Lee's Ferry, Arizona.
Folder 3 Navajo-Diné slides, circa mid-20th century. Includes 66 slides depicting various Navajos that include the Navajo Nation Tribal Council as well as several other slides.
Folder 4 Rainbow Bridge (Arizona and New Mexico), Sedona (Arizona) and Pyramid Lake (Nevada) slides, circa mid-20th century. Includes 76 slides of the scenic landscape in and around the areas of Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Sedona and Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
Folder 5 Navajo Reservation slides, circa mid-20th century. Contains 33 slides of the Navajo Reservation that includes landscape scenes, Window Rock, a Navajo wood chopping contest as well as other slides that deal with the subjects of Navajo parades and fairs.
Folder 6 Shiprock, New Mexico slides, August, 1978. Includes 25 slides of the Shiprock, New Mexico area.
Folder 7 Picnic in the woods slides, undated. Contains 18 slides of the E. Reeseman Fryer and his family having a picnic in the woods. The location of where this event took place remains unidentified.
Folder 8 American Southwest slides, circa 1960s. Contains 16 slides of E. Reeseman Fryer and his family camping out in the American Southwest.
Folder 9 Alaska slides, 1963. Contains 13 slides of E. Reeseman Fryer's trip to Alaska, including several aerial scenes.
Folder 10 Other slides, undated. Contains 3 slides of various subjects that include an early 1960s automobile model passing a Grand Canyon National Park sign.
Folder 11 Friends, family and travels of E. Reeseman Fryer related photoprints, 1939-1989. Includes 53 photos of the friends, family and travels of E. Reeseman Fryer that include a sailing trip on the Chesapeake Bay, snows scenes in an unidentified suburban town, community groups, the Phelps family coat of arms, the San Ricardo Bike Club as well as other related photos.
Folder 12 Southwestern United States other photoprints, 1930-1972. Includes 20 photos covering a variety of subjects that include White Mountain Apaches, soil erosion in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Harold F. Pitcairn and his autogiro, the Grand Canyon as well as several other photos.
Folder 13 Art collection photoprints, 1989. Contains 96 photos of E. Reeseman Fryer's personal art collection taken at his home in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Includes photos of Apache and Navajo baskets, rug weavings, kachina dolls, paintings, statue busts as well as several paintings.
Folder 14 Other photoprints, circa1890s-1980s. Includes 21 photos from E. Reeseman Fryer's personal life including portraits of relatives, himself, Harold Ickes (Secretary of the Interior, 1933-1940), the ambassadors of Iraq and Jordan as well as several other related photos.
Series 7: Oversized photoprints, in Box 6
Folder 1 Other Navajo period related photoprints, circa 1930s-1961. Contains 5 photos of William Zimmerman, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a Navajo Tribal Council meeting and a conference of the Indian Service in Denver, Colorado (two of these three pictures showing a panoramic group portrait). Also, four b/w pictures of four types of Navajo hogans (walls of log, stone, clapboard); the four photos are matted together on a board that measures 13" by 16"; the Center of Southwest Studies has a photonegative of each of these, elsewhere in the Fryer collection, neg. #s 3207-3210.
Folder 2 Other dignitaries related photoprints, 1938-1961. Contains 3 photos depicting dignitaries E. Reeseman Fryer knew in his lifetime: John Collier, who was instrumental in passing the Indian Rights Act of 1934, Herbert H. Lehman, who was a former governor of New York and first director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was the last Shah of Iran.
Folder 3 Other images related photoprints, undated. Contains 3 portraitures of an unidentified Native American, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and an unidentified man.
Item list of 45 photos by Milton
"Jack" Snow selected for digitization for online viewing.
Holdings note: the Center of Southwest Studies has the master photonegative
for each image, and a photoprint for some of them, as noted in the table
below.
Title |
Image Date |
Photoprint # |
Neg # |
Summary/abstract note 520 |
DigitalFileURL |
C.C.C. enrollees playing horseshoes at Crown Point |
1939 |
|
3221 |
Image of Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) enrollees playing horseshoes at Crown Point, New Mexico. There are a number of people watching and there is a white wood frame building in the background. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483221Page.htm |
C.C.C. enrollees repairing machinery at day school in Crown Point area |
1938-1939 |
P048Box2Fol1Item1 |
3224 |
Three Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) enrollees repairing machinery at day school in Crown Point. The piece of machinery appears to have spikes protruding from a rolling drum that is attached to a tractor when in use. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483224Page.htm |
C.C.C. Navajos loading a drinking water tank |
1939 |
P048Box1Fol2Item10 |
3223 |
Navajo workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps are loading a drinking water tank up onto the back of an open-bed truck for transporation to a new project location in 1939. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483223Page.htm |
Churro Ewe and Son Rombolliet |
1930's |
|
3226 |
Close-up view of two sheep, Churro Ewe and Son Rombolliet. The ewe is standing while the young sheep is laying on the ground. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483226Page.htm |
Circle hogan of rock in Western Navajo country |
1939 |
P048Box2Fol1Item2 |
3205 |
Typical of many hogans built during the 1930s in the nearly treeless area of Western Navajo country (in Arizona). The hogan is constructed of stone with a compacted dirt roof and a chimney coming up through the center of the roof. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483205Page.htm |
Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier watching the sky with Fryer & Burge |
1938 |
P048Box2Fol2Item02 |
3227 |
Photo of Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, General Superintendent of the Navajo Service E. Reeseman Fryer, and American Association for Indian Affairs Field Representative Morris Burge are standing watching an airplane doing aerial stunts… |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483227Page.htm |
Cow Springs Trading Post |
1935 |
|
3212 |
View of entrance to trading post with dark letters on a white sign that states, "Cow Springs Trading Post General Merchandise." There is an image of a Navajo weaving in between the words "General Merchandise. The building is made of sandstone. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483212Page.htm |
Do it yourself demonstration hogan |
|
|
3203 |
A recently constructed hogan made of wood planking, glass windows and asphalt shingles with two tall water storage tanks in the background. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483203Page.htm |
Fruitland irrigation |
1939 |
|
3202 |
Aerial view of irrigated fields in the area around Fruitland, New Mexico. Mountains can be seen in the distant background at the top left corner of the image. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483202Page.htm |
Government-built erosion control and watering pond on the Navajo Indian Reservation |
1955 |
P048Box2Fol2Item09 |
3199 |
This is an aerial view of a combination erosion control and livestock watering pond that the U.S. Government constructed on the Navajo Reservation in 1955. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483199Page.htm |
Improved hogan #1 |
1940 |
|
3210 |
An octagonal-shaped hogan made of sandstone blocks with glass pane windows and a roof of wood and shingles. A small portico is over door. One woman sits against the hogan while another woman stands near the door greeting a young boy walking towards them. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483210Page.htm |
Improved hogan #2 |
1940 |
|
3207 |
Two women, one possibly holding a baby, stand in front of a sqare-shaped, wood frame building with a hipped roof. To the right of this building is a log and brush summer shelter and in the center background is a large pine tree. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483207Page.htm |
Improved hogan #3 |
1940 |
|
3208 |
A woman stands in the doorway of a rectangle-shaped log home with a hipped roof over main part and a slanted roof over a side addition. Another woman is outside hanging weavings over a corral fence attached to side addition. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483208Page.htm |
Improved hogan #4 |
1940 |
|
3209 |
Two Navajo women and three children stand in front of a cribbed log hogan with a round roof of compacted dirt. It appears that two stove pipes are sticking up through the center of the hogan. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483209Page.htm |
Irrigation |
1939 |
P048Box2Fol2Item04 |
3197 |
A P & H power shovel is dumping dirt into the bed of a Navajo Indian Service dump truck during construction of an irrigation canal on the Navajo Indian Reservation (Ariz.). Print by Ray Hanova. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483197Page.htm |
Joe Lee - Navajo Silversmith |
1938 |
|
3190 |
Joe Lee sitting on the ground holding tools in his hands while working at his silversmith craft. He is wearing a dark-colored shirt, a necklace, and a bandanna on his head. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483190Page.htm |
Judge Max Little Salt |
1952 |
|
3195 |
Portrait of Judge Max Little Salt wearing a hat, a dark jacket with a zipper, a dark shirt underneath the jacket, a turquoise necklace, and a turquoise bracelet on his right wrist. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483195Page.htm |
Livestock watering pond at the Lukachukai Mountains (Ariz.) |
1940 |
P048Box2Fol2Item07 |
3198 |
A serene view of water amidst the aspen trees. The pond is used as watering spot for livestock in the Lukachukai Mountains of Arizona. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483198Page.htm |
Making adobe bricks at Rock Point (Ariz.) |
1939 |
|
3222 |
Two Navajo workers are seated near a wheelbarrow, making adobe bricks. Numerous adobe bricks surround the two workers as the bricks sit in the open to be dried by the sun. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483222Page.htm |
Meeting of Navajo Tribal Council at central headquarters (Window Rock, Ariz.) |
1947 |
|
3228 |
Aerial view of people and cars gathered outside the Navajo Tribal Council Headquarters in Window Rock, Arizona. The headquarters building appears to be octagonal in shape and made of log beams and sandstone. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483228Page.htm |
Navajo Child at Tribal Fair (Window Rock, Ariz.) |
1942 |
|
3192 |
Portrait of a Navajo child smiling and wearing a velvet top and beaded necklaces. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483192Page.htm |
Navajo girl spinning at the Navajo Tribal Fair (Window Rock, Ariz.) |
1938 |
|
3188 |
A Navajo girl sitting on the floor wearing a dark-colored velvet dress and beaded necklace while spinning wool. The spindle is in her right hand and the spun wool is in her left hand. Several weavings and garments hang on a wall behind her. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483188Page.htm |
Navajo madonna at the Window Rock (Ariz.) fair |
1938 |
|
3194 |
A Navajo woman is standing and holding a child wrapped in a blanket in her arms. The woman is wearing a dress with a velvet top which has silver buttons and other decorations down the front and on its collar. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483194Page.htm |
Navajo madonna: a Luckachukai mother and child |
1939 |
P048Box2Fol2Item05 |
3187 |
A Navajo woman with striped blanket wrapped around her and holding a baby bundled in a wooden cradleboard. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483187Page.htm |
Navajo people and sheep watering at a well (Valley Trading Post, Chinle Valley) |
1941 |
P048Box2Fol1Item5 |
3225 |
Navajos and their sheep watering at a well near the Valley Trading Post in the Chinle Valley. Two men stand in a wagon with metal drums for hauling water. Another man is taking a bucket out of the wagon. A horse, other Navajos and sheep are in background. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483225Page.htm |
Navajo searching for wood near Chinle Valley (Ariz.) |
1940 |
|
3217 |
A Navajo man searching for wood near Chinle Valley. He appears to have two horses hitched up to the base of a wooden wagon. They are traveling through a sage plain with a mesa in the distant background. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483217Page.htm |
Navajo Tribal Fairgrounds (Window Rock, Ariz.) aerial view |
1956 |
P048Box2Fol1Item7 |
|
Photo taken from an airplane, showing the Navajo tribal fairgrounds at Window Rock, Arizona, which were constructed by the U.S. Government in 1938-39 "to demonstrate to the Navajo people the beneficial results obtained by improved livestock breeding… |
|
Navajo wagon (Tuba City, Ariz.) |
1937 |
|
3214 |
Close-up view of an old wooden horse-drawn wagon with several old wagon wheels leaning against it. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483214Page.htm |
Pete Price, Navajo leader and medicine man, portrait photo |
1938 |
P048Box2Fol2Item01 |
3189 |
"Pete Price, highly respected leader and among the most admired Navajo medicine men of the 1930's." [text is from typed caption, probably by E. Reeseman Fryer]. He is wearing a hat, a shirt with a vest over it, and a turquoise necklace. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483189Page.htm |
Pine Springs Trading Post |
1939 |
P048Box1Fol2Item11 |
3211 |
Exterior view of Pine Springs Trading Post. The building is made of sandstone blocks and has several windows and doors. There is a horse tied to a pinyon tree out front and a Coca Cola sign leans against a short log fence at the side of the trading post. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483211Page.htm |
Playground at the Fort Defiance Boarding School |
1937-1940 |
P048Box2Fol1Item4 |
3215 |
Children playing on large swingset behind the Fort Defiance Boarding School. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483215Page.htm |
Plowing out an extension to an irrigation ditch |
1940 |
|
3201 |
Two men walking behind two horses and a plow create an extension to an irrigation ditch. The men are digging up dirt through a sage plain while a few trees and a high mesa can be seen in the background. A couple of brush shelters can also be seen. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483201Page.htm |
Ponderosa pines on Fort Defiance Plateau (Ariz.) |
|
|
3218 |
View of ponderosa pines on the Fort Defiance Plateau in Arizona. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483218Page.htm |
Preparing to return to a hogan with a load of hay bought at a trading post |
1940 |
P048Box1Fol4Item10 |
3220 |
Two Navajo men are by a horse-drawn wagon (one standing by the front left wooden wheel, the other standing in the front of the wagon), preparing to return to a hogan with a load of hay they bought at a trading post in the Chinle Valley. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483220Page.htm |
Primitive Navajo hogan |
1939-1940 |
P048Box2Fol1Item3 |
3206 |
A hogan constructed of wood logs and dirt compacted over the logs. Not uncommon in those areas of the Navajo Reservation that were denuded of vegetation by overgrazing during the drought and depression of the 1930s. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483206Page.htm |
The Yeabichi Dancers rocks of Monument Valley (Utah) |
194- |
P048Box2Fol2Item10 |
3219 |
Looking down on the "Yeabichi" rocks of Monument Valley, northern Navajo reservation -- visual evidences of not only surface erosion due to overgrazing but also interminable erosion by the winds. [text from label on back of photoprint, possibly by Fryer.] |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483219Page.htm |
Tribal Fair Grounds Range Management (Window Rock, Ariz.) |
1956 |
|
3213 |
Aerial view of tribal fair grounds in Window Rock, Arizona. There are buildings surrounding an oval dirt track with a couple of dirt roads leading toward the fairgrounds. Several other buildings can be seen in the lower right corner of the image. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483213Page.htm |
Tsihnnahjinnie, portrait photo |
1939 |
|
3185 |
Portrait of Tsihnnahjinnie sitting and leaning against a stone block wall of a house. He is wearing a light and dark colored jacket that zips up the front. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483185Page.htm |
Tsihnnahjinnie, portrait photo |
1939 |
|
3186 |
Portrait of Tsihnnahjinnie standing against a stone block wall of a house. He is wearing a light and dark colored jacket that zips up the front with a dark shirt underneath and a hat on his head. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483186Page.htm |
Tuba City school (Tuba City, Ariz.) |
1941 |
P048Box2Fol1Item6 |
3216 |
View of the Tuba City school. There is a boy standing beside his bicycle in the shady foreground and five cars are parked by the school. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483216Page.htm |
Two-horse wagon in front of a Navajo "Chindi"-type hogan |
1939 |
P048Box2Fol2Item03 |
3204 |
"During the century before the end of the second world war, the two-horse wagon was as much a part of Navajo life and culture as the land itself. Milton (Jack) snow had a special affinity for its form and beauty. Among his best photographs are those... |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483204Page.htm |
Water at Government-dug deep well |
1941 |
|
3200 |
View of a large water storage tank and the windmill that pumps water into the tank. There are people, horses, and a wagon around the water well. Some people are scooping up water from a pond. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483200Page.htm |
Water Supply |
1938 |
|
3196 |
Two men kneeling near a concrete watering trough while looking at a water storage tank and the windmill that pumps the water into the tank. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483196Page.htm |
Young beauty queen of the Navajo Tribal Fair (Window Rock, Ariz.) |
1940 |
P048Box2Fol2Item06 |
3191 |
"Her lovely costume is `Navajo Original,' woven by her mother. Her silver jewelry is the work of Navajo silversmiths. Her quiet beauty is her own" [text from label on back of matboard; probably written by E. Reeseman Fryer] |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483191Page.htm |
Young Navajo female in front of family wagon at Tribal Fair (Window Rock, Ariz.) |
1940 |
P048Box2Fol2Item08 |
3193 |
According to a caption beneath the image, this is Bille [sic] Cornfield's sister. She is standing in front of a wagon and is wearing a dress with a velvet top, a concha belt, turquoise and beaded necklaces and tall lace-up boots. |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/finding_aids/images/P048/P0483193Page.htm |
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