Scope and Contents
The collection includes digital files from Willis’ series Mni Wiconi/ Water Is Life: Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty that were made during his visits to the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. The collection also contains Willis’ darkroom notebook containing technical information on his printing process. Other material includes book mock ups, CD-ROMs, correspondence, and newsletters.
Dates
- 1880 - 2019
- Majority of material found within 1980 - 2019
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 40-41 (born digital): Restricted fragile material. Access copies of digital files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Electronic images are available only in Reading Room and not in the Beinecke Digital Library.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
23.5 Linear Feet ((44 boxes) + 15,400 files)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
John Willis
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Born digital
- Dakota Access Pipeline -- Pictorial works
- Diffusion transfer prints
- Gelatin silver prints
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Political activity -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Portraits
- Negatives
- Oglala Indians -- Pictorial works
- Oglala Sioux Tribe -- Pictorial works
- Peltier, Leonard
- Photographers -- 20th Century -- United States
- Photographs
- Pine Ridge (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Platinum prints
- South Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Willis, John, 1957-
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the John Willis Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Jessica Tai
- Date
- March 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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