 | Kenneth B. Castleton Photograph Collection P0334 |
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Special Collections J. Willard Marriott Library 295 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860 Tel: 801-585-3073 Fax: 801-585-3976 |
Scope and Content
The photographs in this collection were taken by Kenneth B. Castleton or his associates between the years 1970 and 1985 although there are a few photographs taken before 1970. They record petroglyph and pictograph sites mainly in Utah, and to a lesser extent in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, California, and other countries. They are an invaluable resource for researchers of ancient culture. There are also a small number of photographs of a more personal nature such as of the Castleton family and of trips that were not connected with rock art. These are filed at the end of the collection.
The photographs are mostly color prints and slides, with a few black-and-white prints. Dr. Castleton had arranged them by geographical area and this original order was retained. This order corresponds to that in his book, Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah, Volumes I and II (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978). The photographs were kept in three separate formats: Notebooks, which contain prints arranged and attached to pages; Prints, which are loose and filed in folders; and Slides which are in preserving pages and folders. Each of these sections is arranged in a general geographical area, and then into a particular site within the area. All items in each section are consecutively numbered. The numbering begins over in each of the three sections. All numbers are preceeded by a N (Notebooks), P (Prints), or S (Slides). Although photographs and papers are usually separated, in this case Castleton's field notes, articles, and papers were considered an essential support to the photographic information and are found in Section IV Manuscript Material.
In some cases photos of sites with the same or similar proper names are filed under different geographical areas because of the tendency for geological entities to defy boundaries, such as Nine Mile Canyon. In other cases two sites simply had the same name. This problem was resolved with extensive cross-indexing, so that one only need look under a given site name in the index to find all available prints or slides at that site, whether or not they are physically filed together.
The photographs are mostly color prints and slides, with a few black-and-white prints. Dr. Castleton had arranged them by geographical area and this original order was retained. This order corresponds to that in his book, Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah, Volumes I and II (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978). The photographs were kept in three separate formats: Notebooks, which contain prints arranged and attached to pages; Prints, which are loose and filed in folders; and Slides which are in preserving pages and folders. Each of these sections is arranged in a general geographical area, and then into a particular site within the area. All items in each section are consecutively numbered. The numbering begins over in each of the three sections. All numbers are preceeded by a N (Notebooks), P (Prints), or S (Slides). Although photographs and papers are usually separated, in this case Castleton's field notes, articles, and papers were considered an essential support to the photographic information and are found in Section IV Manuscript Material.
In some cases photos of sites with the same or similar proper names are filed under different geographical areas because of the tendency for geological entities to defy boundaries, such as Nine Mile Canyon. In other cases two sites simply had the same name. This problem was resolved with extensive cross-indexing, so that one only need look under a given site name in the index to find all available prints or slides at that site, whether or not they are physically filed together.