- Local call number
- HCPO.PH.2003.1.HG3
- Media type
- Image
- Creator
- Snow, Milton
- Title
- Hopi Indian Reservation, 1939-1944.
- Original creation dates
- 1939-1944
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Snow, Milton
- Content Summary
- This series contains six images of diversion dams on the Hopi Indian Reservation. Three are from 1944 and depict the dam on Oraibi Wash, 9 miles north of Oraibi Village. The other three are from 1939 and show the Philips farm diversion dam.
- Biography/History
- Milton Snow was appointed as the official photographer by the Soil Conservation Service, in the 1930s, to record the images of dams, schools, roads, and hospitals that were being constructed across the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. Snow also became the staff photographer of the BIA and began to take pictures of the reservations. His photos reveal the various social, economic, and cultural activities of the Hopis living on the reservations.
- Subjects
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Hopi Indians--Agriculture
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Dams--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
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Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
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Farms--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
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Water in agriculture--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
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Water-supply, Rural--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
- Places
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Oraibi (Ariz.)
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Third Mesa (Ariz.)
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Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
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