Portraits of anthropologists
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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- Portraits of anthropologists, 1860s-1960s
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512921327-1503512921330-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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