Navajo Boy

[Salt Lake City], 1940. Black and white silver print photograph [35 cm x 28 cm] (c.1950) Glue residue present on the reverse of image. J.H. McGibbeny (1891-1970) was born in Philadelphia, and he spent his early years in the eastern U.S. He later moved west and attended the University of Arizona. He moved to Salt Lake City in the early 1930s and established himself as a photographer and writer on the Navajo and Hopi Indians, with some of his work appearing in ‘Arizona Highways’. (Inventory #: 3979)