Trading Post on the Navajo Nation
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Title
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Trading Post on the Navajo Nation
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Description
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Stereograph of trading post at Canyon, Diablo, AZ. The stereograph of the Canyon Diablo trading post was created in 1903. The source for date is: Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, Volume 35, Treasury Department, 1903, p. 291. The image was also published as part of the set: Keystone Primary Units, Stereographic and Lantern Slides, Indians of the Southwest, Meadville, Pa., Keystone View Company, c. 1905-1910. The original negative is held in the collections of the California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside. The trading post was established in 1866 by Fred W. Volz, a former railroad telegrapher turned Indian trader. He left in 1910. Source: Ann T. Strickland Rowland, Canyon Diablo, Its Devilish History (1994). http://www.rerowland.com/canyon_diablo.html. Another image of the trading post (Call no. NAU.PH.413.1190) taken by Philip Johnston in 1899 is in the collections of Northern Arizona University: http://archive.library.nau.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cpa/id/6343
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Keystone Primary Units, Stereographic and Lantern Slides, Indians of the Southwest
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Type
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Image
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shortDescription
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Stereograph of trading post at Canyon Diablo, Arizona.
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Spatial Coverage
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Canyon Diablo, Coconino County, Arizona.
Fred W. Volz Trading Post, identified by a photograph in Special Collections Archives, Northern Arizona University
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Creator
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Underwood & Underwood;Keystone View Company
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Date
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1903
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Format
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JPEG
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Identifier
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V23205; H29885
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Source
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Underwood & Underwood; Keystone View Company; Val Berryman Stereograph Collection, Michigan State University Museum
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Rights
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Public Domain
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