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Archival Materials
Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection
Creators:
Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Dates:
1915-1928
Size:
1188 Negatives (photographic)
3 Photographic prints
18 Lantern slides
3 Photographic prints
18 Lantern slides
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.010
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
The Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection primarily contains negatives, photographic prints, and lantern slides made by Lothrop while employed by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation from 1924-1930. Lothrop was an archaeologist and photographer who extensively traveled and worked throughout Central America and South America and led expeditions on behalf of the MAI to Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. There are also photographs from prior to Lothrop's time at MAI that were made in other locations in Central America, Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wisconsin between 1915 and 1918.