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Collection P 008: |
Years this material was
created: 1920 -1962 (bulk 1933-1934).
Quantity: approximately 6,066 distinct photoprint
images (the actual count of photoprints is much more, because of duplicates), plus related printed materials.
Arranged and described
by Todd Ellison, with assistance by Brad
Stapleton and other student archival assistants.
This guide is ©2002
by Fort
Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account, last revised in 2006.
Links to contents
Introduction/ scope and contents
P 008
ANSEL HALL PHOTOGRAPHS
1920-1962, bulk 1930-1934
6,066 photographic images, in approximately 10 linear shelf feet (in 17 document cases, 1
records boxes, and 2 flat boxes)
This collection is useful for anyone researching the history of the early Southwest, persons seeking views of landscapes and everyday scenes of life in the Southwest in the early- to mid-twentieth century. The collection is especially significant due to the role of Ansel Hall in interpretation of National Park Service sites.
The collection consists of thousands of black and white photos (including some duplicate prints, and some negatives, and some photoprints that are mounted on paper and/or in albums) regarding the early U.S. Park Service, and 10 folders of related records, 1920s-1930s. Many of the images exist in various forms: photoprints (often with duplicates and enlargements), negatives (35 mm. strips and rolls, some unprinted though developed), and 16 mm. "safety" movie film.
In general, the photos are of good quality: the images are sharp, contrast is good, and the subject matter is of broad usefulness for researchers, depicting as it does views of the Southwest and some everyday scenes of life. Nearly all are black and white prints. About half of the images are identified. Most of the photos (except those in albums) are curled and will require conservation measures to relax the fibers and flatten the paper (the emulsion has pulled the edges of the prints inward). An estimated 5 percent of the prints are duplicates of the same image.
The photos and documentation pertain most especially to the Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions of the mid-1930s and the Boys Camp near the vicinity of the Gold King mine and mill in La Plata Canyon, Colorado, and also include views of Yosemite National Park, Zion National Park, and numerous images of Navajos and other Native Americans of the Southwest. The collection includes many other photos taken or compiled by Hall in his career with the Park Service, in museum work, and in management of the concessions at Mesa Verde National Park. These include photos of noted archaeologists such as George Beales (of UCLA), Brainard, Watts Smith (of University of Arizona), Sam Tobin and Emory Lovett.
The Center of Southwest Studies has provided digital access to the pages of photos in nine original albums that visually document Ansel Hall's Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-34 (approximately 2,000 sepia toned black and white photographs). Those images include aerial views taken from a donated Ford Tri-Motor and other small aircraft. These photos present an Anglo pioneer's early view of indigenous Native American life in the Four Corners region. The photos show the young white men who went on this expedition (funded in part by the Ford Motor Company), and they also show Native Americans in pre-Western settings.
According to a National Park Service newsletter, Ansel Hall (1894-1962) probably contributed more than any other individual to the formation and early growth of the interpretive work of the National Park Service (N.P.S.). He joined the Park Service a year after its founding, spearheading the development of interpretation of Park sites as the Service's first year 'round full time employee for interpretation, and raising funds (in about 1924) to build the first National Park Service museum, at Yosemite. One of the early active members and presidents of the American Association of Museums, Hall established a museum of natural history at Yosemite National Park, was appointed the first chief naturalist of the N.P.S. in 1923 and its first chief forester in 1930. An enthusiastic visionary with exceptional management skills, Hall organized the Educational Division of the Park Service in 1925.
Hall was a man of vision and enthusiasm. Always on the go, he made plans and was able to implement them rapidly when resources became available. Hall's son Roger Hall has stated that in his opinion, his father's superlative skill was in compiling the resources (people, funding, places, and opportunities) to complete a project. For instance, the idea of the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition was the result, as Roger Hall recalls, of a meeting of Ansel Hall with John Wetherill at Wetherill's tourist park in Kayenta, Arizona, at some time around October of 1932; after they had seen the Navajo National Monument (of which Mr. Wetherill was custodian), Mr. Wetherill pointed out to Mr. Hall the need for the expedition into Monument Valley. During the next year, Hall began to organize the privately funded Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expeditions of 1933-1938 to explore, research, and record data about this fascinating region of the anciently inhabited Southwest. The Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions were the first interdisciplinary expeditions.
Hall was involved in establishing the Eagle Explorer Scouts program, and formed Explorer Scouts in the National Parks. These young men did research which led many of them into administrative careers in the National Park Service. Hall, who himself was driven to explore, also organized summer camps for teenage boys to do archaeological work in southwest Colorado. Their base camp was at the Gold King mine and mill in La Plata Canyon. Many of the records of that camp are held by the heirs of Kenneth Ross (Chief Park Naturalist at Mesa Verde National Park until the 1940s) who operated the camp under Ansel Hall's supervision. Mr. Hall left the Park Service in 1938 to acquire and operate the concessions in Mesa Verde National Park--for the next 42 years. Truly, Ansel Hall, who served as president of the American Association of Museums, was a pioneer in American museum work.
The photos in this collection are the work not only of Hall but also of Robert B. Branstead, Thorn L. Mayes (a pioneer in the use of aerial photography), Clifford Bond, Grace Hoover, Eugene Kingman, and other noted photographers of his day. Hall sponsored and mentored up and coming photographers, which explains why some of their photos are included in his collection. Gene Kingman became curator of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.
Ansel Hall was a mentor for the younger landmark black-and-white photographer, Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Adams' photos of western landscapes were inspired by a boyhood trip to Yosemite National Park in 1916, where Ansel Hall worked. According to some accounts, it was Ansel Hall who gave Ansel Adams what may have been Adams' first camera: a Kodak Box Brownie. Later, Hall indirectly introduced Adams to Virginia Best (she and Adams were married in January of 1929) by his referral to a grand piano such as the one Hall himself enjoyed playing.
The
following is a biographical vignette written by Mr. and Mrs. Winkler
for the National Park Service
(source: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/hall.htm
):
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National
Park Service: The First 75 Years
Biographical Vignettes |
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Ansel F. Hall
1894-1962
by William C. and Merrie H. Winkler
"The first chief naturalist and chief forester of the National Park
Service, Ansel Hall was born May 6, 1894, in Oakland, California. He graduated
in 1917 from the University of California with a degree in forestry. He began
his career at Sequoia National Park as a ranger, and after service in France
during World War I, he was park naturalist at Yosemite National Park from 1920
to 1923. He rose rapidly and was chief naturalist of the National Park Service
from 1923 to 1930, senior naturalist and chief forester from 1930 to 1933, and
chief of the Field Division from 1933 to 1937. He married June Alexander on
January 24, 1924, and they were blessed with six children, three of whom were
triplets. He left the Park Service in 1938 to operate the concessions in Mesa
Verde National Park and to develop private interpretive programs. He died
suddenly on March 28, 1962.
Ansel Hall was a rare combination of romantic idealist and practical businessman. He was an instinctive teacher and had a deep feeling for youth as well as nature. He personally raised funds from private sources and built the museum in Yosemite National Park. His vision had plans ready for implementation when the "Alphabet Agencies" were formed during the Great Depression and park museums flourished. He developed the first museum association in Yosemite, the first of present day cooperating associations. His charm and persuasive skills brought private funds and public involvement to the parks and the San Francisco Bay Area regional parks. Ansel was a mentor to Ansel Adams and other artists in the parks. He organized Eagle Scout trips to Costa Rica, planned and directed the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition, and assisted competent archaeologists to work in Palestine. He was an enormously creative person. He had the faculty of getting things done by selecting people, persuading them, putting them to work, providing them with the facilities, and leaving them alone!" (photo courtesy of Merrie Winkler Collection)
Administrative information
About the organization of this collection: The photos are basically in the order in which they were received. The arrangement is basically chronological, to reflect the progression of Ansel Hall's professional life as an interpreter. The series are numbered consecutively. The boxes are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1. Folder numbers start with 1 in each box. Items within each series and within each folder are arranged chronologically, unless noted otherwise.
Acquisition of this collection: In the fall of 1992, Mr. Hall's daughter and son-in-law Merrie and William Winkler, residents of Cortez, Colorado, donated the initial portions of the Ansel Hall Collection to the Center of Southwest Studies (accession numbers 1992:09003 and 1992:10004). Mrs. Winkler recalls labeling photos in the Expedition photo albums for her father.
In November of 2002 Doug Levy (having seen the Center's digital images of the expedition scrapbook photos on the Web) donated to the Center 44 different aerial photos (74 photoprints in all) taken during the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933 which belonged to his grandfather, F. Linden Naylor, pilot for that expedition (accession number 2002:11004). The donor wrote the Archivist that "he and my step-grandmother made a trans-continental flight in an open cockpit bi-plane. Somewhere in Arizona there's a Naylor Field. He served in Morocco in the early years of World War II as a colonel in the Mediterranean Allied Air Force."
In June of 2004, Jim Mason donated to the Center (accession number 2004:06003) fifty-one photoprints of views of the 1945 Explorers Camp for Boys that was directed by Dr. Harvey E. Stork (Field Director), under the direction of Ansel Hall as Chief. That camp was further described as “a summer of pioneering and adventure in the Rocky Mountains, on the Mesa Verde, and in the Navajo Reservation.” Mr. Mason's father, Homer Mason, was friends with Dr. Stork; Homer Mason was an employee of the camp at Gold King, and his son (the donor) James Mason was free labor for the camp.
Related collections elsewhere: Merrie Winkler's brother Roger had previously donated part of the Hall collection to the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, including some 4x5" and 5x7" photos of the Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley expeditions. The Fine Arts Library of the University of New Mexico holds one photo album by Charles R. Brady, Jr., entitled Photographic record of the work and play of the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley expedition, 1933 (call number F/832/R3/B7x) which would appear to be the missing volume 5 of the photo albums that were digitized at the Center of Southwest Studies.
Processing information: Fort Lewis College archives student Ronald Felix assisted with the early phases of processing this collection in the fall of 1992. Contract scanner Nik Kendziorski digitized the pages of the photo albums in early 2001, through funding from the Colorado Digitization Project. Fort Lewis College archival student intern Brad Stapleton arranged and described the loose photographs (i.e., all but those in the volumes of Monument Valley Expedition photos, which had already been already cataloged) in June and July of 2004, including humidifying hundreds of curled photoprints to relax their fibers for flattening and placement in archival plastic sleeves. This inventory was prepared by Todd Ellison, July 2002 (last revised November 2006).
Digital access: The Center of Southwest Studies selected the Monument Valley Expedition photo albums for a digitization project in part due to the preservation problems they face. Many decades ago, the Rainbow Bridge photos were glued to acidic pages using rubber cement. As those photos fall off there was a danger of losing the identifying descriptions that were written on those pages. The remainder of this collection has been reboxed archivally.
Series descriptions
1. Broad subject #1: Western U.S. national parks, et al.
2. Broad subject #2: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions
3. Broad subject #3: Scout naturalists and Mesa Verde Ruin
5. Duplicate photoprints. Extra copies of photoprints that are in the preceding boxes.
6. Photonegatives (includes just a few nitrate negatives -- stored separately). Most are matching negatives for photoprints in the collection.
7. Projection prints (not yet described or identified).
8. Records of the Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley expedition (not yet arranged and described).
Container list
Broad subject #1: Western U.S. national parks, et al.
Box 1: Yosemite
Folder 1: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 51 photoprints.
Folder 2: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 71 photoprints.
Folder 3: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 80 photoprints.
Folder 4: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 41 photoprints.
Folder 5: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 54 photoprints.
Folder 6: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 78 photoprints.
Folder 7: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 29 photoprints.
Folder 8: Yosemite landscape and people, 1920-1923. 32 photoprints.
Folder 9: Yosemite museum construction, wildlife and people, 1920-1923. 42 photoprints.
Folder 10: Yosemite museum, 1923. 65 photoprints.
Folder 11: Yosemite museum, 1923. 80 photoprints.
Folder 12: Yosemite museum, 1923. 80 photoprints.
Folder 13: Yosemite topographic maps, 1921-1923. 32 photoprints.
Folder 14: Yosemite landscape, people and sequoia redwood
trees, 1920-1923. 44 photoprints.
Box 2: Yosemite and Yellowstone, et al.
Folder 1: Yosemite, Kings River Canyon, 1920-1923. 5 photoprints.
Folder 2: Sequoia National Park, Mt. Lassen, labeled, 1920-1923. 12 photoprints.
Folder 3: Yellowstone, Park and scout naturalists, [192-]. 47 photoprints.
Folder 4: Yellowstone landscape and people, 1925-1936. 69 photoprints.
Folder 5: Hoover Dam construction, 1933 June 6-1935 Mar. 23. 12 photoprints.
Folder 6:
Oregon, Crater Lake, scout naturalists, [192-]. 24
photoprints.
Broad subject #2: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions
Box 3: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions photo albums, volumes 1-6, 1933-1938.
Folder 1: Volume 1: Photos by Robert B. Branstead, starts with page 7 (we did not scan the preceding pages, which were stuck together as a result of water damage) through page 98. 114 photoprints.
Folder 2: Vol. 2 Photos by Robert B. Branstead, continues from Vol. 1 with page 99 and goes through 168 (pages 169 and 170, which were water damaged and illegible) . 114 photoprints. 131 photoprints.
Folder 3: Vol. 3 Photos by Robert B. Branstead; the pages were not numbered originally; we have numbered the pages starting with page 1 and going through the last page [82] . 105 photoprints.
Folder 4: Vol. 4 Leica photos by Clifford Bond, starts with an introduction page, then page numbers 1 through 106. 107 photoprints.
(The Center of Southwest Studies has no volume numbered Vol. 5.)
Folder 5: Vol. 6 Aerial photos by Thorn L. Mayes, starts with page 491 and goes through page 629. Thorn Mayes "headed the mapping efforts of the expeditions. His aerial photography was as significant an innovation as Robert Brewster Stanton's photography of the Grand Canyon when surveying his would-be route for a rail line." (per email 1/17/2002 from Alfred E. Holland, Jr., History Department, California State University, Sacramento). 135 photoprints.
Folder 6:
Vol. 7 Photos by Clifford Bond
dated 10/23/1934; the pages were not numbered originally; we have numbered
the pages, starting with page 1 and going through the last page (82). 73
photoprints.
Box 4: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions photo albums, volumes 8, 9, and 12, 1933-1938.
Folder 1: Vol. 8 Leica photos by Clifford Bond dated 10/19/1934; the pages were not numbered originally; we have numbered the pages, starting with page [0] and going through the last page (91). 89 photoprints.
Folder 2: Vol. 9 Photos by [Grace?] Hoover, 1934, pages not numbered; we have numbered the pages, starting with page #1 and going through the last page. 97 photoprints.
Folder 3:
Vol. 12
Aerial
photos by Ansel Hall, 1934, pages not numbered; the pages are numbered by
the Center of Southwest Studies starting with page #2 and going through the
last page. 65
photoprints.
See also Box 15,
Folder 8:
Aerial views "Air views" of Monument Valley and the Navajo Mountain region,
[193-]. 1 album, containing 74 photoprints. This volume
(accession number
2002:11004) belonged to F. Linden Naylor, the pilot for that
expedition.
Box 5: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions mounted photos (not in volumes), numbered by their creators, #s1-60, 1933-1934. 60 photoprints.
Folder 1: Pueblo II pottery, mounted photoprint, 1933 June15. [3x]. (Note: this means there are three prints of the same image here.)
Folder 2: Pueblo II pottery, mounted photoprint, 1933 June15. [3x].
Folder 3: Laguna Wash, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 14. [3x].
Folder 4: Laguna Wash, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 14. [3x].
Folder 5: Yellow prickly pear cactus, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 14. [3x].
Folder 6: Laguna Wash, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 14. [3x].
Folder 7: Dr. De Bert Connell, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 14. [3x].
Folder 8: Mourning dove nest, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 15. [3x].
Folder 9: Mourning dove nest, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 15. [3x].
Folder 10: Betatakin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 11: Betatakin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 12: Betatakin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 13: Betatakin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 14: Mealing bins, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 15: Betatakin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 16: Betatakin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 17: Betatakin roof beams, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 18: Betatakin pictographs, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 19: Betatakin canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 20: Tsegi canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 21: Tsegi canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 22: Tsegi canyon rainbow, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 23: Dead Juniper, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 24: Skeleton Mesa, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 16. [3x].
Folder 25: Keet Siel creek, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 26: Keet Siel creek, waterfall, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 27: Keet Siel canyon, north wall, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 28: Keet Siel canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 29: Sand Stone monument, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 30: Keet Siel natural arches, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 31: Keet Siel ruin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 32: Keet Siel log, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 33: Keet Siel log, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 34: Keet Siel, pebble masonry, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 35: Keet Siel, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 36: Keet Siel, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 37: Keet Siel, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 38: Keet Siel, pot sherds, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 39: Keet Siel cave, pictographs, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 40: Keet Siel, mealing bins, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 18. [3x].
Folder 41: Keet Siel, kiva, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 42: Keet Siel, ruin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 17. [3x].
Folder 43: Bat Woman Pueblo, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 20. [3x].
Folder 44: Bat Woman Pueblo, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 20. [3x].
Folder 45: Bat Woman Pueblo, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 20. [3x].
Folder 46: Bat Woman Pueblo, petroglyphs, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 20. [3x].
Folder 47: Bat Woman Pueblo, pictograph, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 20. [3x].
Folder 48: Bat Woman Pueblo, east end, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 20. [3x].
Folder 49: Model Hogan, Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 50: Model Hogan, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 51: Yucca plants, Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 52: Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 53: Dogoszhe Biko, pithouse site, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 54: Early pithouse site, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 55: Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 56: Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 57: Dogoszhe Biko, cave, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 58: Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 59: Nagashi Bikin, cave and pueblo, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Folder 60: Nagashi Bikin, Charles Harkness, mounted
photoprint, 1933 June 22. [3x].
Box 6: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions mounted photos (not in volumes), numbered by their creators, #s 61-120, 1933-1934. 62 photoprints.
Folder 1: Nagashi Bikin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 2: Nagashi Bikin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 3: Nagashi Bikin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 4: Nagashi Bikin, floor details, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 5: Nagashi Bikin, roof details, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 6: Nagashi Bikin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 7: Nagashi Bikin, pithouse, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 8: Nagashi Bikin, kiva, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 23. [3x].
Folder 9: Dogoszhe Biko, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 24. [3x].
Folder 10: Trail Canyon, pithouse, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 11: Trail Canyon, pithouse in cave, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 12: Trail Canyon, Pinyon Pine Ruin, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 13: End of large beam, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 26. [3x].
Folder 14: Cross section of prehistoric beam, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 26. [3x].
Folder 15: Trail Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 16: Yellow Head’s brother, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 17: View from Skeleton Mesa, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 18: Juniper Tree, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 26. photoprint.
Folder 19: Panorama of Monument Valley, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 20: Panorama of Monument Valley, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 21: Rim of Skeleton Mesa, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 25. [3x].
Folder 22: Skeleton Mesa, Ben Wetherill, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 26. [3x].
Folder 23: Unnamed Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 27. [2x].
Folder 24: Long Canyon, Don Collier, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 25: Long Canyon, Granary, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 26: Large cave near head of Long Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 27: Long Canyon cliff, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 28: Long Canyon, narrow leaf yucca, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [2x].
Folder 29: Long Canyon, twisted juniper trunk, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 30: Panorama from Skeleton Mesa, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 31: Nokai Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 32: Nokai Canyon from trail, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 33: Long Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 34: Long Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 28. [3x].
Folder 35: View up Long Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 36: Long Canyon, Aspen forest, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 37: Long Canyon, Eastern wall, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 38: Long Canyon, Upper cliffs, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 39: Long Canyon, Domes of red sandstone, Eastern wall, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 40: Lunch in camp, mounted photoprint, 1933 June 30. [3x].
Folder 41: Expedition staff, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 4. [3x].
Folder 42: Expedition members, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 4. [3x].
Folder 43: Sandstone Monuments, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 44: Trail to Rainbow Bridge, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 45: Trail to Rainbow Bridge, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 46: Cliff Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 47: Cliff Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 48: Cliff Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 49: Cliffs from Rainbow Bridge trail, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 50: Cliff Canyon, view up canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 6. [3x].
Folder 51: Red Bud Canyon, pictographs, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 52: Red Bud Canyon, pictographs, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 53: Red Bud Pass, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 54: Red Bud Pass, The Narrows, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 55: Red Bud Pass, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 56: Rainbow Bridge in early morning, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 57: Rainbow Bridge, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 58: Reflection of Rainbow Bridge, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 59: Rainbow Bridge from stream
bottom, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Box 7: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions mounted photos (not in volumes), numbered by their creators, #s 121-170, 1933-1934. 49 photoprints.
Folder 1: Rainbow Bridge, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 2: Rainbow Bridge, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 3: Rainbow Bridge, roping down from summit 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 4: Rainbow Bridge, view from buttress, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 5: Bridge Canyon and Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 6: Bridge Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 7: Rainbow Bridge with real rainbow in sky, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 8: Rainbow Bridge sunset, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 9: Rainbow Bridge in moonlight, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 10: Rainbow Bridge in moonlight, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 11: Rainbow Bridge in moonlight, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 12: Rainbow Bridge flashlight, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 13: Rainbow Bridge register, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 14: Rainbow Bridge memorial plaque, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 15: Cliffs in Arch Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 16: Bridge Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 17: Bridge Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 18: Forbidding Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 19: Forbidding Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 20: Grand Canyon of the Colorado, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 21: Grand Canyon of the Colorado, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 22: Forbidding Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 23: Forbidding Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 24: Stream in Forbidding Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 25: Forbidding Canyon, The Three Peaks, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 26: Cliff Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 27: Cliff Canyon, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 28: Cliff Canyon sunset, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 29: Cliff Canyon sunset, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 8. [3x].
Folder 30: Red House, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 10. [3x].
Folder 31: Red House kiva, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 10. [3x].
Folder 32: Red House, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 10. [2x].
Folder 33: Red House, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 10. 1 photoprint.
Folder 34: Prehistoric dam, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 35: Navajo water tank, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 10. [3x].
Folder 36: Navajo corn field, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 11. [3x].
Folder 37: Balancing rock, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 11. [5x].
Folder 38: Near Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 11. [3x].
Folder 39: Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 11. 1 photoprint.
Folder 40: Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 11. 1 photoprint
Folder 41: Sage Brush Flats, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 7. [3x].
Folder 42: Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 12. [3x].
Folder 43: View from Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 12. [3x].
Folder 44: Party on Navajo Mountain trail, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 13. [3x].
Folder 45: Wild Rose, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 13. [3x].
Folder 46: Rainbow Bridge from summit of Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 13. [5x].
Folder 47: Panorama from Navajo Mountain, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 13. 1 photoprint.
Folder 48: Explorers make their own roads, mounted photoprint, 1933 July 13. 1 photoprint.
Folder 49: Explorer stuck in the mud,
mounted photoprint, 1933 July 13. 1 photoprint.
Box 8: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions photos (not in volumes and not mounted; in June of 2004 the Center placed these in polyethylene sleeves).
Folder 1: Ruins, landscapes and people, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 2: Ruins, landscapes and people, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 3: Ruins, petroglyphs, and people, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 4: Explorers, pack mules, ruins and landscapes, 1933-1938. 48 photoprints
Folder 5: Explorers, Native Americans and rodeo 1933-1938. 52 photoprints.
Folder 6: Explorers, vehicles and landscapes, 1933-1938. 48 photoprints.
Folder 7: Aerial landscape, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 8: Aerial landscape, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 9: Aerial landscape, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 10: Aerial landscape, 1933-1938. 40 photoprints.
Folder 11:
River runners, petroglyphs and landscape 1933-1938. 52 photoprints.
Box 9: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions photos (not in volumes and not mounted; in June of 2004 the Center placed these in polyethylene sleeves).
Folder 1: People, landscapes, and animals, 1933-1938. 49 photoprints.
Folder 2: River runners, petroglyphs, and landscapes, 1933-1938. 76 photoprints.
Folder 3: River runners, ruins, and people, 1933-1938. 67 photoprints.
Folder 4: River runners, petroglyphs, and people, 1933-1938. 73 photoprints.
Folder 5: River runners, petroglyphs, and landscapes, 1933-1938. 77 photoprints.
Folder 6: People, ruins, landscape 1933-1938. 77 photoprints.
Folder 7: People and landscapes, 1933-1938. 72 photoprints.
Folder 8: Ruins, artifacts, petroglyphs, people, 1933-1934. 68 photoprints.
Folder 9: Ruins, people, 1933-1934. 172 photoprints.
Folder 10: Ruins, artifacts, landscapes people, 1933-1934. 117 photoprints.
Folder 11: Scout naturalists, sand dunes, [193-]. 35 photoprints.
Folder 12: RB/MV,
ruins, artifacts and explorers, [194-]. 66 photoprints.
Box 10: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions photos (not in volumes and not mounted; in June of 2004 the Center placed these in polyethylene sleeves).
Folder 1: Indian Creek, labeled, 1933. 18 photoprints.
Folder 2: Landscapes and people, 1933. 46 photoprints.
Folder 3: Landscapes and people, 1933. 75 photoprints.
Folder 4: Landscapes and people, 1933. 50 photoprints.
Folder 5: Landscapes and people, 1933. 47 photoprints.
Folder 6: Landscapes and people, 1933. 49 photoprints.
Folder 7: Ruins and artifacts 1933. 44 photoprints.
Folder 8: Artifacts, landscapes and people, 1933-1934. 40 photoprints.
Folder 9: Artifacts, landscapes, people and ruins 1933-1934. 76 photoprints.
Folder 10: Petroglyphs, ruins, people and landscapes, 1933-1934. 92 photoprints.
Folder 11: Petroglyphs, ruins, people and landscapes, 1933-1934. 75 photoprints.
Folder 12:
Ford Motor Company factory, 1933. 11
photoprints.
Box 11: Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expeditions photos (not in volumes and not mounted; in June of 2004 the Center placed these in polyethylene sleeves).
Folder 1: Aerial landscape 1933-1934. 32 photoprints.
Folder 2: Ruins, people and landscapes, 1933-1934. 80 photoprints.
Folder 3: Monument Valley/Grand Canyon, landscapes and people, 1933-1934. 133 photoprints.
Folder 4: Landscapes, ruins and people, 1933-1934. 15 photoprints.
Folder 5: Landscapes, ruins, petroglyphs and people, 1933-1934. 88 photoprints.
Folder 6: Landscapes, ruins and people, 1933-1934. 43 photoprints.
Folder 7: Bryce Canyon, people, ruins, landscapes and artifacts 1933-1934. 68 photoprints.
Folder 8: Canyon De Chelly, landscapes and ruins 1933-1934. 9 photoprints.
Folder 9: Zion, landscapes and people, 1933-1934. 82 photoprints.
Folder 10: San Juan river runners 1933-1934. 11 photoprints.
Folder 11: Dinosaur tracks 1933-1934. 3 photoprints.
Folder
12: 35mm negatives, 4 sets of numbers 1-120, 1933-1938.
Box 12: National Parks (near Monument Valley, and visited by members of that expedition) photographs
Folder 1: Zion National Park, landscapes, 1933-1934. 52 photoprints.
Folder 2: Grand Canyon, landscapes, 1933-1934. 44 photoprints.
Folder 3: Grand Canyon, landscapes and people, 1933-1934. 49 photoprints.
Folder 4: Grand Canyon, landscapes and people, 1933-1934. 46 photoprints.
Folder 5: Grand Canyon, plants, labeled 1933-1934. 58 photoprints.
Folder 6: Arizona, Sonora Mission Expedition, labeled 1935. 171 photoprints.
Folder 7: Arizona, Fort Mason, ruins and artifacts [193-]. 55 photoprints.
Folder 8: Arizona, Grand Canyon, [193-]. 65 labeled photoprints.
Folder 9: Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley, landscapes and people, (Everett Ruess?), [193-]. 5 photoprints
Broad subject #3: Scout naturalists and Mesa Verde Ruin
Box 13: La Plata Explorers’ Camp
Folder 1: Scout naturalists at Explorers’ Camp, 1945-1946. 148 photoprints.
Folder 2: Petroglyphs, ruins, and people, 1945-1946. 100 photoprints.
Folder 3: Ruins and people at rodeos 1945-1946. 55 photoprints.
Folder 4: Explorers' Camp, 1945. 51 photoprints. Gift of James Mason, 2004 June. At least fifteen of the photos were taken by the donor's father, Homer Mason; and at least eleven were taken by Jim Mason himself, as a young man working alongside his father at the Camp. Individual photograph captions of 30 of the images are as follows.
Resident of La Plata City, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
Montezuma National Forest entrance sign on La Plata Canyon Road, north of Hesperus (Photo by Homer Mason)
La Plata Canyon Road (Photo by Homer Mason)
Hesperus, CO, Post Office, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
Gold King Mill, 1945 (Building in foreground was used as the Explorers' Camp dining hall) (Photo by Homer Mason)
Parrott Peak (L) Madden Peak (R) La Plata Mts. (Photo by Homer Mason)
Gold King Mill, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
Homer Mason Explorers' Camp, 1945 (Photo by Jim Mason)
Homer Mason and building used as Explorers' Camp, 1945 (Photo by Jim Mason)
Explorers' Camp for Boys Dormitory, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
Gold King scenes, 1945 Explorer's Camp (Photo by Jim Mason)
Colonel A. J. Macnab and Jim Mason. (Photo by Homer Mason)
Day trip in La Plata Canyon (Photo by Homer Mason)
Group of campers departing for "desert trip" Explorers' Camp for Boys, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason) (Einar Erickson, Ruth, Nevada, with purple shirt, leaning against rear gate; Gay Woo, Reno, Nevada, with jacket and cap, near front cab)
Day trip in La Plata Canyon (Photo by Homer Mason) (Marge Allen, camp cook; Louis Conover, Reno, George Allen, wrangler)
Preparing for pack trip to Bear (Photo by Homer Mason)
Loading truck for "desert trip" (Photo by Homer Mason)
Harvey Stork (botanist, Carleton College) and Bill Sanborn (geologist), preparing for pack trip to Bear Creek
Preparing for pack trip to Bear Creek, 1945
George and Marge Allen, at Bear Creek camp (Photo by Jim Mason)
Jim Mason in camp kitchen, Bear Creek (Photo by Jim Mason)
Campers at Bear Creek (Photo by Jim Mason)
Colonel A. J.Macnab's Abercrombie "explorers' tent" at Bear Creek (Photo by Jim Mason)
Homer Mason's tent at Bear Creek (Photo by Jim Mason)
"Desert trip" campers at Goblet of Venus, Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, 1945 (Photo by Jim Mason)
"Desert trip" campers at Elephants Feet, Arizona, 194! (Photo by Jim Mason)
"Desert trip" camper Henry Hoyt on top of "Edwin Bridge," Natural Bridges, Utah, 1945 (Photo by Jim Mason)
"Desert trip", Indian Canyon, Utah, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
"Desert trip", Ganado, Arizona, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
Rodeo, Lukachukai, Arizona, 1945 (Photo by Homer Mason)
Box 14: Ansel Hall Ruin and Mesa Verde
Folder 1: Ansel Hall Ruin, excavation 1946. 15 photoprints.
Folder 2: Mesa Verde, ruins and people, 1938-1962. 60 photoprints.
Folder 3: Mesa Verde, ruins, people and landscapes, 1938-1962. 61 photoprints.
Folder 4: Plants, wildlife flora and fauna, postcards [192-]. 59 photoprints.
Folder 5: Ansel Hall and family 1926-1938. 15 photoprints.
Folder 6: Large 8x10" landscapes, labeled, [192-]. 14 photoprints.
Folder 7: Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace [194-]. 5 lithographic prints.
Folder 8: Mesa Verde, Balcony House Ruin [194-]. 1 lithographic print.
Folder 9: Mesa Verde, Square Tower Ruin [194-]. 1 lithographic print.
Folder 10: Mesa Verde, Climbing to Balcony House Ruin [194-]. 1 lithographic print.
Folder 11: Mesa Verde, Spruce Tree Ruin [194-]. 2 lithographic prints.
Folder 12: Mesa
Verde, Sun Temple and Mummy House Ruin, [194-]. 1 lithographic print.
Folder 13: Mesa Verde, North Rim, showing Knife Edge Road, [194-]. 1 lithographic print.
Folder 14: Museum displays of
Native American jewelry, [194-]. 33 photoprints.
Box 15: Oversize photographs
Folder 1: Bryce Canyon, 1933-1934. 2 photoprints.
Folder 2: Yosemite, landscape, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 3: Yosemite, museum, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 4: Southwest, desert sand dunes, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 5: Glacier des Bossoms et Aigueilles, Theodore Roosevelt, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 6: Montblanc, Theodore Roosevelt, [[193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 7: Mount Goddard, Novilla del Nieve, [192-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 8: Aerial views "Air views" of Monument Valley and the Navajo Mountain region, [193-]. 1 album, containing 74 photoprints. This volume (accession number 2002:11004) belonged to F. Linden Naylor, the pilot for that expedition.
Folder 9: Yosemite, view of Yosemite Valley, 1920-1923. 12 photoprints.
Folder 10: Yosemite, Half Dome, 1920-1923. 2 photoprints.
Folder 11: Yosemite, the Domes of Yosemite, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 12: Yosemite, Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 13: Yosemite, Glacier Point, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 14: Yosemite, Yosemite Domes and waterfall, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 15: Yosemite, Half Dome and river, 1920-1923. 3 photoprints.
Folder 16: Yosemite, Clouds Rest and Half Dome, 1920-1923. 1 photoprint.
Folder 17: Yosemite, Cabin, 1920-1923. 1 colored photoprint.
Folder 18:
Tehipite Valley, the Gradel, [192-]. 1 photoprint.
Box 16: Larger oversized photographs
Folder 1: Herd of sheep, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 2: Yosemite museum, 1924-1925. 1 photoprint.
Folder 3: Mesa Verde, Spruce Tree House and Cliff Palace, [194-]. 2 tinted photoprints.
Folder 4: Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 5: Map guide to Mesa Verde, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 6: Mesa Verde, Speaker Chief’s Tower and Cliff Palace, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 7: Rainbow Bridge, [193-]. [5x] photoprint.
Folder 8: Rainbow Bridge, [193-]. [3x] photoprint.
Folder 9: Monument Valley totem pole, [193-]. [3x] photoprint.
Folder 10: Monument Valley aerial landscape, [193-]. [4x] photoprint.
Folder 11: Backside of Mesa Verde, [194-]. [4x] photoprint.
Folder 12: Native American on horseback, [194-]. [12x] photoprint.
Folder 13: Southwest: two men on horseback, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 14: Southwest: livestock, [195-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 15: Aspen trees, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 16: Monument Valley: people and car, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 17: Monument Valley: Mitten Rock, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 18: Monument Valley: ruin excavation, 1933-1934. 1 photoprint.
Folder 19: Mesa Verde: Balcony House ruin, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 20: La Plata Explorer’s Camp: scouts loading truck, 1945-1946. 1 photoprint.
Folder 21: La Plata Mountains: Explorers hiking, 1945-1946. 1 photoprint.
Folder 22: Black Mesa Ruins, [193-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 23: Rodeo horse racers and spectators, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 24: Horseback rider, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 25: Drawing water from a watering hole, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Folder 26:
Views of the La Plata Mountains, [194-]. 1 photoprint.
Box 17: Duplicate photoprints. Extra copies of photoprints that are in the preceding boxes.
Box 18: Photonegatives (nitrate negatives are stored separately). Most are matching negatives for photoprints in the collection.
Box 19: Projection prints. (Not yet described or identified.)
Box 20: Records of the Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley expedition (not yet arranged and described).
Related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies and elsewhere:
At the Center of Southwest Studies: Photograph albums of the Monument Valley expeditions of 1933/1934
At the University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Archaeological Collections Facility, Los Angeles, California 90095-1549: Collection number: A243: Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition Archives, 1915-1996 (bulk 1933-1983); 8 linear feet (14 boxes and 1 drawer in a flat file).
At the University of Utah Marriott Library, Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Salt Lake City, Utah: Collection P 0355: The photographs of Thorn Mayes, Sr. (www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/reg/p355.prg ) 3 linear feet (includes 68 prints)
Historical sources:
Christensen, Andrew L. "The Rainbow Bridge/ Monument Valley Expedition 1933-38." Plateau Magazine (58:4) 1987, Museum of Northern Arizona.
Hall, Ansel Franklin. General Report: Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933. University of California Press, 1934 Feb. 20. 32 pages.
Crotty, Helen. Honoring the Dead. (Contains a very good introduction to the organization of the Expedition.)
Winkler, William C. and Merrie H. "Ansel F. Hall: 1894-1962." National Park Service: The First 75 Years. William H. Sontag, ed. Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1990. Page 21.
Yeager, Dorr C. "Ansel Hall: Pioneer Interpreter," Courier: The National Park Service Newsletter. (4:7) August 1981, pages 18-19.