Online Archive of California (OAC)

Numerous collections are indexed or digitally available from participating institutions, including: Voices International Archive of Cahuilla Materials, Indian Family of the California Desert, Cahuilla Oral History Project, California Indian Arts Association Video Collection, George W. Ingalls Photograph Collection: A collection of glass plate negatives and prints collected by Major George W. Ingalls, a United States Indian agent, 1872-1875, who worked among Paiute and other tribes in the American West, as well as among Great Plains, Great Basin and Eastern tribes relegated to Indian Territory. Many of the photographs were made in the early 1870s. A subset of the collection is available online; Finding Aid for the Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections, 1955-1959: some photographs from the collection available online. The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist of ethnographic as well as archaeological pieces; Grace Nicholson Photograph Collection and Finding Aid: contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives, and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket-collecting trips. Some photographs from the collection are available online for download. See website for full holdings and details on accessing collections.