Name/Title
Sami FamilyEntry/Object ID
3.18.23Description
Portrait of a Sami Family and Their Sod House. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2". Description: black and white photograph of three generations, eleven men, women, children and one baby held in a papoose-like wicker carrier; all are posed standing beside, seated in front of or on the sod hut which is built inside a sapling frame. A. J. Lawin, New Richland, Minn. reproduced this photo in his studio.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
ReproductionContext
This photo is part of the Joseph and Emma Knutson Saltvold Collection.
This is a file photo that is in the public domain and was used by a New Richland photographer probably as an advertising prop. Actual photograph credit goes to Granbergs Nya Aktiebolag / Public domain.
The second photo by comparison is found on the Internet at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordic_Sami_people_Lavvu_1900-1920.jpg
You can see the same people on both photos.Collection
SaltvoldCataloged By
PfenMade/Created
Studio
A. J. Lawin PhotographyDate made
1890Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Print, PhotographicCreate Date
May 8, 2019Update Date
May 7, 2026