| | 2 | Author: | Ransier, Anna | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Anna Ransier Glass Plate Collection,
circa 1920-1940 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1920-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Photographs, circa 1920-1940. This collection is comprised of photographs taken during the extensive travels of Anna Ransier, a Baptist missionary, and her husband Hubert during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The hand-colored glass plate lantern slides were then shown to various school, club and church groups during travel lectures that Anna gave. Of special interest are photographs of various National Parks in both the United States and Canada, the Hopi Indian Reservation in Northern Arizona, Mexico and Mexico City, and “mountaineer” life in the Appalachians of Tennessee. Also included in this collection are handwritten travel notes. A glass plate projector and miscellaneous projection equipment in a black leather accordion briefcase are located in Special Collections. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | African Americans - South - Pictorial works | Hopi Indians – Arizona – Pictorial works | Missionaries | National parks and reserves – Pictorial works | | | | Matches:
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| ...Colorado: Mesa Verde National Park...
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| 3 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Lillian Wilhelm Smith Papers, SHM MS-25
1898-1964 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1898-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Artist Lillian Wilhelm Smith (1882-1971) spent most of her life in Arizona, painting the people
and places of the region. She first visited Arizona in 1913 with author Zane Grey (1872-1939), a cousin by marriage, to
illustrate his western themed books. After a period of return visits, during which she became inspired by the people and
landscapes of Arizona, she decided to move permanently to the state in 1916. This collection contains biographical
information, family documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal journals, photographs, chinaware designs,
drawings and artwork covering Smith’s life in Arizona. The collection also includes information regarding Smith’s
She-Kay-Ah chinaware designs, Hopi Whirlwind and Navajo Motif, as well as materials of her collaborations with author
Zane Grey and poet Lou Ella Archer-Elliott. | | | | Repository: | Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives | | | | Subjects: | Municipal playground | Hopi Indians | Hopi Indians--Arizona | She-Kay-Ah Chinaware | | | | Matches:
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| ...Dunbier, 2012 Shadows on the Mesa , Fillmore, Gary, 2012...
...of the Canyon, Wild Horse Mesa, The Rainbow Trail . System...
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