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Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. 44 pages. First issue in the new and enlarged form. Features: The United States Versus The American Indian; The Cliff-Dweller Housekeeper - Home life of a people who may have been extinct before Columbus arrived; Tales From the House in the Valley - A revival of romance, superstitions and tragedies of the Southwest's lonely wastes; Beat Against Me No Longer - A Chippewa Love Song; The Indian and the Horse - Interesting facts about the origin of the horse in North America, and the manner in which the wild herds bred from the horses of Coronado and De Soto were utilized by the American Indian; The Southwest Through the Lens of an Ethnographic Photographer - First of a series of studies by Frederick Monsen; The Indian Knoll - Evidence unearthed from the site of an ancient Indian village; Thomas L. Sloan - American Indian; Honorable Charles Curtis - American Indian Senator from Kansas; Stetson ad on back cover. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white illustrations and photos. Above-average wear to covers which are loose but present. Name on front cover, otherwise unmarked. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Monsen, Frederick (illustratore).…

The first is a rather large silver gelatin print of a Hopi child sitting on some stairs in the Pueblo (7 5/8 x 10 1/8 and signed by Monsen on the verso). Next is a rather sad photograph of an emaciated Hopi native hoeing his rather barren corn crop (4 x 7 5/8; obviously trimmed as on the verso we read a note in Monsen's hand-"Hopi Farmer on the Painted Arizo[na]. American. 1906 by F. I. Mon.". Last, and in many respects the best image, is of dissolute Hopi man wearing only a shirt and ragged shoes and with his hair mated and unkempt, standing by a doorway (8 x 10 inches, top left corner in need of repair; no writing on this image but all of these images were obtained by a Pasadena friend of Monsen's son, Courtney; the two men worked together in the Pasadena School system). Contrast is very good on all three images. We could only locate a copy of the first image.Frederick I. Monsen was born in Bergen, Norway, in 1865, and emigrated to Utah Territory with his parents in 1868. He grew up in the West, where his adventurous spirit and artistic talents drew him to the explorations and surveys taking place there in the late 19th century. He worked variously as an artist, topographer, writer and photographer, and spent the later years of his life as a lecturer and expedition leader. "Monsen learned photography as a teenager, when he and his father worked as a photographic team for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He began joining U.S. Geographical Surveys, sometimes informally, in the late 1880s. In 1889, he took over for the injured official photographer, Franklin Nims, on the Brown-Stanton Railway survey of the Colorado River. He joined the Salton Sea Expedition in 1891, and spent six months independently exploring Death Valley and Baja California in 1893. He also went on explorations to Alaska, the Yukon, Mexico and Central and South America. But the area he repeatedly visited and made his specialty was the Southwest, and he developed a deep personal interest in the Native Americans of the area. Like several other Western photographers in the late 19th and early 20th century, Monsen wished to document the lives of Native Americans before their way of life had been irrevocably altered. He recurrently lived and worked in the Desert Southwest from the mid-1880s until his death in 1929. Many of his earliest trips were taken with close friend and fellow Pasadena photographer A. C. Vroman. They were known to sometimes photograph the same subject, and would often work in the darkroom together on their return (Huntington Library; The Frederick Monsen Ethnographic Indian Photographs).…

First edition. Small octavo. 32 pp. including eleven photographs of Indians and Southwest scenes taken by Monsen using a Kodak. Publisher's color pictorial wrappers. Minimal wear along spine. A very good copy.F. I. Monsen was the photographer on such notable survey expeditions as the Death Valley expedition in 1893 and the Yosemite National Park survey of 1896. He was an intrepid explorer and made extensive trips to Baja in 1892. By this time [1909] Monsen had formed a company to take well-heeled tourists through the deserts and canyons of the Southwest. "Over a period of eighteen years, Mr. Monsen's photographic journey took him throughout the southwestern United States, the California mountains, and Mexico. He became the first professional photographer to record the daily lives of the Hopi and Navajo. Kodak was Mr. Monsen's camera of choice, and he traveled with three small Kodaks for their ease of portability. They could be easily strapped to his belt, which enabled him to snap candid shots of tribal life. He remembered all too well the unnatural poses necessitated by the dry plate process, but the Kodak enabled Mr. Monsen to capture natural expressions because his subjects were often blissfully unaware they were being photographed" (Historic Camera). One of the photographs in this publication shows Monsen sitting on the ground playing with a group of Navajo children. He died in Pasadena in 1929.…