Marble photograph taken on the Menominee Reservation between 1913 and 1918

Harmon Percy Marble (born November 5, 1870 in Pawnee County, Nebraska – 1945) was a mayor in Las Vegas and Native American photographer. Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Pawnee County is a County located in the US state of Nebraska. Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States

As a young adult, he worked for a number of years in the newspaper business, founding his own paper, the Humboldt Leader (probably Humboldt, Nebraska), in 1897. Humboldt is a city in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States. In 1911, he sold the paper in order to join the government Indian Service. He was first assigned to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, then in 1913 to the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, followed by work with the Sioux tribes at Fort Thompson, South Dakota. The Navajo Nation ( Diné in the Navajo language) is a semi- autonomous Native American homeland covering about 26000 square miles (67339 square The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Wisconsin ( or wɪˈskɑnsɨn (French Ouisconsin) is one of the fifty United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States Later he was in charge of the Southern Pueblos in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and finally returned to Arizona. In 1926, he retired from the Indian Service and moved to Long Beach, California where he owned a cigar store. Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast Later he joined family in Las Vegas, Nevada and lived out his remaining years there. He was a prominent civic leader and mayor of Las Vegas, and was instrumental in establishing the first low-income family housing development in there, which was renamed Marble Manor in his honor after his death in 1945.

Native American Photographer

Marble is best known as a prolific Native American photographer. During his government career, he took advantage of opportunities offered by his positions to make hundreds of photographs of the Navajo, Menominee, and Sioux Indians. The Navajo or Diné people (also spelled Navaho) of the Southwestern United States Some placenames use other spellings see also Menomonee and Menomonie. Sioux (pronounced SUE are a Native American and First Nations people His photographs were inconsistently exposed, often poorly composed and poorly printed. However, that same lack of artistic sense has given us photos which are uncontrived and show the Indians more naturally than better known contemporaries such as Edward Curtis and Rodman Wanamaker. Edward Sheriff Curtis ( February 16, 1868 &ndash October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native Lewis Rodman Wanamaker ( February 13, 1863 – March 9, 1928, Atlantic City New Jersey) was the second son of Philadelphia

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Some of the information above was taken from hand-written family biographical documents acquired with the accompanying photograph.