This collection contains content identified by the library as Culturally Sensitive to Indigenous People(s): AP2220 in box 94 is a photograph of Hopi dance and AP2251-2252 in box 95 are photographs of Zuni clowns and dance. For more information please see the Newberry Library’s policy on Access to Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials.

Mounted albumen prints of pueblos in the Rio Grande River region of New Mexico, of the Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, and of the Hopi pueblos in Arizona, taken mainly from 1879 to 1882.

Rio Grande river region pueblo views include Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, and Zia. In addition to numerous views of the Zuni pueblo, there are images of Zuni governors, school children with teacher Taylor F. Ealey, albinos, mud heads, dancers and a water carrier. The Hopi pueblos of Hano, Mishongnovi, Oraibi, Shipaulovi Shongopovi, Sichomovi, and Walpi are documented, and there are images of a Hopi woman's dance at Oraibi and a Hopi weaver at Walpi. There are also portraits of Pima chief Azul with his son and grandson, and of a Navajo woman named Hedipa or Hedida.