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Portraits of anthropologists

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 33
Depicted
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Photographer
Bachrach & Brother
Blackstone Studios
Names
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Photographer
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Depicted
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
United States De Soto Expedition Commission
Photographer
Bailey, Vernon Orlando
Depicted
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Bond, Q. M.
Cammerer, Arno B.
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Photographer
Dana (of New York)
Depicted
Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
Photographer
Garrett, Gene
Depicted
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Geary, James A.
Photographer
Gilbert, C. W.
Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
Depicted
Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Photographer
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Depicted
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976
Photographer
Kemethy, Kets
Depicted
Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
Photographer
Koby, Paul
Depicted
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905
Photographer
McDonough, David
Depicted
McGee, W J, 1853-1912
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881
Artist
Nicholson, Grace, -1948
Photographer
Parker, Charles
Phillips, H. C.
Depicted
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Photographer
Rice (of Washington, D.C.)
Depicted
Rink, Signe
Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923
Photographer
Shuck, J. A.
Depicted
Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-
Stevenson, James, 1840-1888
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972
Struever, Stuart
Swan, James G., 1818-1900
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
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Portraits of anthropologists
Extent
1 Print (photogravure)
8 Prints (halftone (including one newspaper clipping))
124 Prints (circa, silver gelatin, albumen, and platinum)
50 Copy prints (circa)
3 copper printing plates
1 Color print
1 Print (wood engraving)
3 Copy negatives (glass)
Date
circa 1860s-1970
Custodial History note
The file was put together in the archives during the 1950s from photographs of diverse origins. Some items are from other collections in the National Anthropological Archives and are noted as such.
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.PhotoLot.33
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Copy prints
Color prints
Copy negatives
Photographs
Citation
Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Rights
Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.
Existence and Location of Copies note
Digital surrogates for most photographs are available online.
Genre/Form
Photographs
Other Finding Aids note
Inventory available in repository.
Scope and Contents note
This collection is an artificial collection of photographs, copper plates, and a few notes, all of which depict or relate to anthropologists, many of which were associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Included are portraits of Franz Boas, Q. M. Bond, Arno B. Cammerer, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Edwin Hamilton Davis, J. Woodbridge Davis, Frances Densmore, James Owen Dorsey, Philip Drucker, Jesse Walter Fewkes (including photographs of his home by Frances Densmore), Albert Samuel Gatschet, James A. Geary, De Lancey W. Gill, George Brown Goode, Horatio Hale, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, John K. Hillers, William Henry Holmes, William Henry Jackson, Eugene Irving Knez, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Pere Albert Lacomb, Augustus Le Plongeon, James Mooney, Lewis Henry Morgan, Carl Oschsicanes, James Constantine Pilling, John Wesley Powell, Frau Signe Rink, Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., Charles C. Royce, Robert Lloyd Stephenson, James Stevenson, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Julian Haynes Steward, Steward Struever, James Gilchrist Swan, John Reed Swanton, Edwin P. Upham, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and Gordon Randolph Willey. Groups depicted include the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1936; the De Soto Commission; officers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885; a 1920 expedition group to Hawikuk; staff of the Great Lakes Division, United States Geological Survey, in Salt Lake City, 1882; a group at Moundville, Alabama, 1932; the University of Nebraska archeological field party, 1920; the Pecos conference, 1927; John Wesley Powell with Wild Hank, Kentucky Mountain Bill, and Jesus Aloiso; and the United States Geological Survey staff, ca. 1894. Among photographers represented are Vernon Orlando Bailey, Blackston Studios of New York, Dana of New York, Frances Densmore, Gene Garrett, C. W. Gilbert, De Lancey W. Gill, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, Kets Kemethy, Paul Koby, David McDonough, H. C. Phillips, Rice of Washington, D. C., and J. A. Shuck of El Reno, Oklahoma.
Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Four photographs with negatives by Matilda Coxe Stevenson have been relocated to Photo Lot 23.
This collection includes photographs that have been removed from other collections in the National Anthropological Archives, including MS 4970, MS 4851, MS 4780, MS 4250, MS 4751, MS 4516, MS 4860, MS 4695, MS 4970, and MS 4558.
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Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503512921327-1503512921330-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw315fa853c-2f6b-4db6-9f01-be3010ee1f93

In the Collection

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  • Portrait (Front) of John K. Hillers

  • Raymond DeMallie and Richard Weber by Lewis Henry Morgan's (1818-1881) crypt in family mausoleum

  • Portrait (Front) of John Wesley Powell

  • Man and Mary Dean Powell, John Wesley Powell's daughter, by wood boat

  • View along Bent Street in Powell, Wyoming, at night

  • Portrait (Front) of man

  • Union Pacific Railroad Advertisement for Land in Kansas

  • Portrait of officers of American Association for The Advancement of Science, including Rev James Owen Dorsey and Mrs Erminnie A. Smith

  • Portrait (Front) of Woman and young Philip Drucker

  • Two men and woman eating picnic meal

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes with his wife Harriet Olivia Cutler Fewkes (left), and female relative of Mrs Fewkes (right) outside Fewkes' house

  • Five men with birds and fish they have caught, and hunting and fishing gear, outside wood frame building

  • Man, possibly Smithsonian employee, by sculpture depicting American Indian man on horseback shooting buffalo with bow and arrow

  • Tombstone of Ellen Louella Powell Thompson (1840-1911), sister of John Wesley Powell and wife of Almon Harris Thompson

  • Portrait of staff of Bureau of American Ethnology

  • Raymond DeMallie and Richard Weber outside Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) family mausoleum in snow

  • William Henry Jackson and Delancey W. Gill

  • William Henry Jackson and Delancey W. Gill

  • Portrait (Front) of Frances Densmore

  • University of Nebraska Archaeological Field Party at site

  • Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-1942) at his desk with American Indian baskets

  • Portrait of man and three women, Bureau of American Ethnology library personnel

  • Plaque showing location of John Wesley Powell's battery from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM on April 6, 1862, during Battle of Shiloh

  • Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr (third from right) with four men at conference table

  • Carl Miller's office with Clarksville Archeological Material

  • View of Farm in Maryland and Virginia

  • Portrait (Front) of Rev James A. Geary

  • William Henry Jackson and Delancey W. Gill

  • Stone marker with plaque showing location of John Wesley Powell's battery at Hornets Nest from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, on April 6, 1862, during Battle of Shiloh

  • Portrait (Front) of John Wesley Powell

  • Park Service employee and Mary Dean Powell, John Wesley Powell's daughter

  • Probably William Henry Holmes with two men and two women by wood frame house

  • Portrait (Front) of James Mooney

  • Dirt road leading from Silver Spring to Jesse Walter Fewkes' house

  • Portrait (Front) of John Wesley Powell

  • Portrait (Front) of Frances Densmore

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) in office

  • James Gilchrist Swan in office surrounded by Northwest Coast objects

  • Portrait (Front) of Q. M. Bond

  • Raymond DeMallie and Richard Weber outside Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) family mausoleum in snow

  • Union Pacific Railroad Company advertisement for transportation of immigrants to Nebraska

  • Powell Survey members with noats "Canonita", "Emma Dean", and "Nellie Powell" ready to start down river

  • Augustus Leplongeon's wife in ruins of corbel-vaulted masonry structure

  • Portrait (Front) of watchman for Smithsonian north door, possibly named Fields

  • Plaque locating John Wesley Powell's camp during battle of Shiloh

  • Frank Hamilton Cushing chipping stone artifact with hammer stone

  • William Henry Jackson and Delancey W. Gill

  • Portrait (Profile) of Maud Powell with violin

  • Roadway in cemetery with snow

  • Portrait (Front) of John R. Swanton

  • Portrait of John Wesley Powell, Wild Hank Sharp, Kentucky Mountain Bill, and Jesus Alviso (Interpreter For 1874 Navaho Delegation) with guns and bows and arrows

  • Frances Densmore with beaded moccasins, strip, and vest, and decorated pottery in background

  • James Constantine Pilling working at desk

  • Portrait (Front) of Albert Samuel Gatschet

  • John Wesley Powell's house

  • View of Farm in Maryland or Virginia

  • William Henry Jackson and Delancey W. Gill

  • Portrait (Front) of Wilcomb E. Washburn in uniform

  • View of railroad tracks (possibly Union Pacific) and small town

  • Plaque marking end of Ranson's Approach or Gap, dug under direction of John Wesley Powell during Siege of Vicksburg, June, 1863

  • Tombstone of John Wesley Powell and wife Emma Dean

  • Photostat of portrait (Front) of Charles C. Royce

  • Hayden Survey members, including Dr Albert C. Peale, Geologist; Dr Henry Gannett, Topographer; and Dr Gannett's assistant

  • Portrait (Front) of Arno B. Cammerer, Third Director of National Park Service

  • Portrait of John Wesley Powell, Wild Hank Sharp, Kentucky Mountain Bill, and Jesus Alviso (Interpreter For 1874 Navaho Delegation), with guns and bows and arrows

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) and C. E. Wickemeyer by excavated graves

  • John Wesley Powell's house

  • Third meeting of the DeSoto Commission

  • Raymond DeMallie and Richard Weber by Lewis Henry Morgan's (1818 -1881) crypt in family mausoleum

  • Portrait (Front) of Edwin P. Upham

  • Tombstone of William Henry Jackson (1843-1942)

  • Portrait (Front) of Philip Drucker in US Navy uniform

  • Portrait (Front) of John Wesley Powell

  • View Along Bent Street in Powell, Wyoming

  • Philip Drucker cutting coconut with machete

  • Inscription "Non Hic Sumus" on Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) family mausoleum in snow

  • John Wesley Powell

  • Portrait (Front) of John Wesley Powell

  • Portrait (Front) of Lieutenant Commander Philip Drucker in uniform

  • Portrait (Front) of Horatio E. Hale

  • Carl Miller's office with Clarksville Archeological Material

  • Marker showing starting point of John Wesley Powell's first expedition down Colorado River in 1869

  • Portrait (Front) of Bishop Grandin ? of Alberta District and Pere (Father) Lacomb

  • John Wesley Powell's house

  • Portrait (Front) of Jesse Walter Fewkes

  • Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr measuring modern buffalo vertebra

  • Portrait of William John McGee

  • Julian Steward with man (possibly Steward's informant, Chief Louis Billy Prince) seated outside of wood building with bow and quiver of arrows leaning against wall nearby

  • Plaque marking John Wesley Powell's advance battery in late June and early July, during the 1863 Siege of Vicksburg

  • Portrait (Front) of James Mooney

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes by masonry walls

  • Portrait (Front) of Frances Densmore

  • Portrait (Front) of Frances Densmore

  • Portrait (Front) of John Wesley Powell

  • Seven men outside temporary office of Great Basin Division Of USGS

  • University of Nebraska Archaeological Field Party at Site

  • Group of employees of US Geological Survey and Bureau Of American Ethnology, at farewell dinner for John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) upon his retirement from USGS

  • Portrait (Front) of Rev James Owen Dorsey

  • Group of men and woman at dedication of tombstone of William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) on 100th anniversary of his birth

  • Stuart Struever

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