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MS 078 - Dr. Edward H. Latham Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box: MS78.01
Identifier: MS 078

Abstract

Correlation of MS 78 Dr. Edward H. Latham Photographs, P.78.2.1 to P.78.2.111, to plates within Mick Gidley's book With One Sky Above Us:  Life on an American Indian Reservation at the Turn of the Century, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979.  Captions from the Plates are noted in the description of the Plates.

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Biographical or Historical Information

Dr. Edward H. Latham (1843-1928) was the agency physician on the Sioux, Spokane, and Colville Indian Reservations, arriving at the latter in 1890. He was an amateur photographer and created a record of life on the reservation. Previously misattributed to Edward S. Curtis due to false stamp on the back of print images.

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Extent

1.00 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Author
Nathan Bender
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Other Unmapped
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Eng

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