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Auto Immune Response

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 220
Overview: Inkjet prints of photographic images created by Will Wilson for his series, Auto Immune Response (AIR), 2004-2021.In an artist's statement for the series, Wilson writes that it "takes as its subject the quixotic relationship between a post-apocalyptic Diné (Navajo) man and the devastatingly beautiful, but toxic environment he inhabits," and that "the series is an allegorical investigation of the extraordinarily rapid transformation of...
Dates: 2004-2021

Connecting the Dots: For a Just Transition

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 221
Overview: Inkjet prints of photographic images created by Will Wilson for his series, Connecting the Dots: For a Just Transition, 2019-2021.

In an artist's statement for the series, Wilson writes that it "intends to shape a platform for voices of resilience, Indigenous knowledge and restorative systems of remediation while bearing witness to a history of environmental damage and communal loss on the Navajo Nation."
Dates: 2019-2021

Photographs Related to Navajo, Havasupai, Hopi, and Pueblo Indians, and Sites in Arizona and New Mexico

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Call Number: WA Photos 1044
Overview: Photographs collected by the Day family and leaves from a disbound photograph album compiled by them that chiefly relate to their trade and activities with Navajo, Havasupai, Hopi, and Pueblo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, 1900-1941, as well as views of sites in Arizona, including Canyon de Chelly, St. Michael's Mission, and Walpi, and New Mexico including Gallup, Laguna Pueblo, and Las Vegas. Members of the Day family and Simeon Schwemberger created many of the photographs. Events...
Dates: 1900-1941

Steve Fitch photographs

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 174
Overview: Photographs created by Steve Fitch that document sites chiefly in the American West, 1970-2016, and printed 1990-2017. The collection contains 83 prints from his photographic projects, which include views of the vernacular roadside of highways, such as neon motel signs and hand-painted business signs, drive-in movie theaters, abandoned buildings, and radio towers. Photographs include sites in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South...
Dates: 1970-2017

Miguel A. Gandert photographs and papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2964
Overview: The collection consists of photographic prints (chiefly in black and white), contact sheets, printed material, and computer disks.
Dates: 1972-2005

Peter Goin, Nuclear Landscapes: Portfolio of Forty-Four Photographs and Trinity Panorama

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 163
Overview: Portfolio of inkjet prints of photographs by Peter Goin that document nuclear test sites in Nevada and the Marshall Islands, as well as a and a radioactive waste repository in Washington, circa 1986-1988, and printed in 2011.
Dates: 2011

Photographs of the American West

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 75
Overview: This collection includes portfolios of photographs and panoramic photographs created by Halverson that document the American West, 1987-2017.
Dates: 1987-2017

W. E. Hook photographs of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

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Call Number: WA Photos 511
Overview: Photographs collected by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library that document the photography of W. E. Hook, 1885-1908. The collection chiefly includes photographs of sites in Colorado, as well as some images of New Mexico and Texas. Photographs in the collection document the different presentation methods used by Hook to market his images, including cabinet photographs, as well as the variant titles he used in negatives and on photographic mounts.
Dates: 1885-1908

William E. Irwin Photographs collection

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Call Number: WA Photos 516
Overview: Photographs of sites and individuals in Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory, as well as Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and other places in the American West, circa 1893-1935, chiefly created by William E. Irwin, as well as by his brothers, John Allison Irwin and Marvin Elmore Irwin.
Dates: 1885-1945

William Henry Jackson photographs of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Mexico

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 215
Overview: Photographs taken by William Henry Jackson and published by W.H. Jackson & Co. of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Mexico, circa 1880s.
Dates: circa 1880s

Edward Meyer Kern and Richard H. Kern papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2395
Overview: The papers contain journals, notebooks, drawings and maps, documents and correspondence which document the activities of Edward and Richard Kern in the West and the Pacific from 1845-1860. A journal and a notebook document Edward Kern's participation in Fremont's third expedition to California; and a journal, a logbook, drawings, two maps and a letter document Edward's participation in the Northern Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1853-1856. A scrapbook of unsigned preliminary sketches and...
Dates: 1795-1895, bulk 1850-1860

David Grant Noble Photographs of Southwestern Cultural Landscapes

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 142
Scope and Contents: Photographs created by David Grant Noble documenting cultural landscapes in the American Southwest, 1971-2002. The images document petroglyphs, structures, cliff dwellings, and other reminders of the ancestors of Southwestern Native American people and cultures. Many images appear in his book, In the Places of the Spirits (Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press, 2010). Photographs of structures in Arizona include White House Ruin and...
Dates: 1971-2002

Martin H. Schreiber photographs and papers

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Call Number: WA Photos 1301
Overview: Photographic prints, slides, negatives, contact sheets, and posters by Martin H. Schreiber of cowboys in the American West, 1980-1998. Materials relate primarily to Schreiber's Last of a breed and depict cowboys and ranches in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

Also included are posters and the typescript questionnaire Schreiber sent to those he met, photographed, or worked with on the "Cowboy Project" along with 20 manuscript responses.
Dates: circa 1980-1998

Paul Strand Photographs of the American Southwest and Mexico

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 882
Overview: Fifteen framed photographic prints of subjects primarily in the American Southwest and Mexico. Also present are two portraits of artist Rebecca Salsbury James.
Dates: 1927-1932

Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 149
Overview: Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, chiefly in 2010-2011. The collection also includes composite images related to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a group of images from a series, "Deteriorating Media," that documents deteriorating magazines at the home of Leroy Reddest of Lost Dog Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Dates: 2010-2011

Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 155
Overview: Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota in 2010-2011.
Dates: 2010-2011

Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 148
Overview: Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota chiefly in 2013.
Dates: 2011-2013