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Russell E. Train Africana collection

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

Creator
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
Names
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926
Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955
Glave, E. J. (Edward James)
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972
Place
Africa -- Maps
Africa -- description and travel
Africa -- Discovery and exploration
Africa -- In art
Topic
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Africa
Wildlife conservation -- Africa
Natural history -- Technique
Natural history -- Africa
Hunting -- Africa
Explorers -- Africa
Provenance
Originally assembled by the Honorable Russell E. Train, a former judge, top administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a past president of the World Wildlife Fund, this collection was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in 2004.
Creator
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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Russell E. Train Africana collection
Summary
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.
Extent
6,500 Items (estimated)
Date
1663-2004
Archival Repository
Smithsonian Libraries
Identifier
SIL-CL.XXXX-0014
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Arrangement note
Organized into ten series, primarily based on format or creator: I. Artifacts, 1663-1999; II. Works of Art, 1663-1999; III. Books, 1900-1986; IV. Edmund Heller personal papers, 1875-1939; V. Manuscripts, 1663-1992; VI. Maps, 1878; VII. Newspapers, 1888-1987; VIII. Robert Henry Nelson personal papers, 1795-1912; VIII. Photographs, 1874-1963; IX. Posters and broadsides, 1814-1955; X. Russell E. Train personal papers, 1956-2004.
Rights
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
Other Finding Aids note
A print copy of the original inventory is available in the Cullman Library.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa. The Train Collection is particularly strong in archival materials on the following topics: the search for the source of the Nile and the progress of other exploring expeditions in Africa; the collecting of specimens of African animals, plants, and ethnological materials for zoos and museums (including a significant body of correspondence and photographs from the Smithsonian African Expedition in 1909-1910, led by President Theodore Roosevelt); and the growth of the African wildlife conservation movement. Besides Roosevelt, the major persons represented in the Collection include the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley and members of his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, James S. Jameson, John Rose Troup, William Bonny, William G. Stairs, Edmund Barttelot, and Arthur J. M. Jephson); the medical missionary Dr. David Livingstone and his father-in-law Robert Moffat; taxidermist Carl Akeley; zoologist Edmund Heller; hunter Frederick Courtenay Selous; artist and adventure writer A. Radclyffe Dugmore; explorers Samuel White Baker, Thomas Baines, Richard Francis Burton and E.J. Glave; anthropologist Paul Belloni du Chaillu; and royal traveler Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor). Consult the finding aid for more specific information on materials relating to these persons and other people and organizations represented in the Collection.
Separated Materials note
In addition to these archival and non-book materials, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries acquired more than 1500 printed books as part of the Russell E. Train Collection; these books are listed individually in the SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) online catalog.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503510890585-1503510890660-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2dbdcfacc-0c10-4faa-80a5-7fdcab16da9c

In the Collection

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  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Typescript of Eyes in the dark, being a strange story of adventure among the yellow devils in a wild part of Africa

  • Lyell, Denis D. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Storey, from Ravenscraig, Peebles

  • Brooke, John Weston, 1880-1908. Newspaper clippings concerning Brooke's hunting expedition

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to his father Henry Nelson, 28 March 1892, informing him of his safe arrival and thanking him for the £100 which he had received

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Typed letter signed to Akeley on White House stationery, with two autograph emendations

  • A.W. Quilter journal of travels in East Africa

  • Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore lecture poster for "Thrilling adventures in African wilds"

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Collection of autograph letters, documents, and photographs related to the completion of his first trans-Africa expedition, August-December 1877

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Typescript of Bestowed a kingdom and denied him bread: The true story of the prince of adventurers Theodore von Neuhoff, the self-appointed and only king of Corsica

  • Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord, 1849-1895. Collection of thirty-nine autograph letters, some signed, to Joseph Guedalla

  • Ross, H. C., active 1922. Autograph manuscript describing a hunting expedition with G. Abercromby, in the Imatong Hills, Mongallia Province

  • Ten letters from representatives of the Illustrated London news (the artist Joseph Bell in Cairo, and WIlliam Ingram in London) in correspondence with Robert Henry Nelson, William G. Stairs, Thomas Heazle Parke, and A.J. Mounteney Jephson in regard to payment for sketches and descriptions, together with seven sketches

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Edmund Heller autograph letter signed to Mrs. Haefner, 22 March (unknown year)

  • Douglas-Hamilton, Oria. Oria and Ian Douglas-Hamilton typed letters signed to Russell E. Train

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft article on the Milwaukee Zoo and its history

  • Morgan and Scott, publisher. "The Christian" Series of Picture Models. No. 1

  • Henry Morton Stanley and Dorothy Stanley photographic portraits

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autograph letter signed to Walter Granger

  • Review of J.G. Millais' "South African Game," from The Graphic

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Black and white photograph of African elephant herd in woodland

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft article on elephants

  • Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924. Vanity Fair cartoon, "The Cutter of Continents"

  • Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939. Two albums containing about 60 tipped-in articles by Llewelyn Powys on literary subjects and book reviews by him of travels in Africa or explorers in Africa for such magazines as Dial, Nation, Freeman, New Republic and newspapers such as the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times

  • Robert Henry Nelson photographic portraits

  • Staffordshire porcelain standing figure in Scottish Highland dress, one foot resting on head of dead lion, titled on base "The Lion Slayer."

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Handwritten lists of porters' names and loads attributed to, with notes of stores by Stairs, Parke, Bonny and Jephson

  • Burrows, Guy. Short autograph description of pygmies, entitled "The Pygmies" and dated Uganda

  • Brooke, John Weston, 1880-1908. Photograph of train, and 1 photograph and 2 drawings clipped from a magazine

  • Rolle, A., active 1872, artist. Bronze statuette of H.M. Stanley holding staff and in full bush uniform. "H.M. Stanley a la recherche de Livingstone"

  • Travers, Col., -1926 Col. Travers autograph letter signed to Sir Richard Southey, concerning "Pay to families of Zanzibar Volunteers" (Cape of Good Hope)

  • Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn manuscript journals of big game hunting

  • Loveridge, Arthur, 1891-1980. Autograph letter signed to Edmund Heller

  • Clerk, George T. Autograph letter signed to John Weston Brooke

  • Abel Chapman portrait, shown with gun and dogs at Houxty (England)

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to R.N. Hayward, from Mabotsa, South Africa

  • Taylor, John, 1900-1969. Typed letter signed to Alexander Maitland (Alex), London

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Miscellaneous articles concerning polar bears

  • Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883. Autograph letter signed to Mrs. Grieson i.e. Grieveson, Kuruman

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to Dr. Murray, from Sandford Orleigh, Newton Abbott

  • Dalrymple-White, Henry Arthur, 1917-2006. African Impressions by Henry Cary (Part 2)

  • Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885. Autograph letter signed to Lt. Tait, from Labore (Equatorial Africa)

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph letter signed to John H. Chamberlain, from Portland Place

  • Collier, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1876-1918. Program of a humorous breakfast in New York City given in honor of Theodore Roosevelt just before his departure for Africa

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Small black and white photograph of the Naivasha station of the Uganda Railway presumably about 1910, showing porters arriving with their loads

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft article, presumably written by Heller, about a trip to Peru

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph letter signed to Charles A. Allen

  • Special Stanley supplement (No.1). H.M. Stanley's explorations in the dark continent - map of the route and a portrait group of the officers of his Expedition. Drawn by W. & A.K. Johnston, Ed. Daily Graphic

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Miscellaneous articles, notes and photographs

  • Ross, H. C., active 1922. Autograph manuscript describing a hunting expedition with R. and G. Abercromby, in the Red Sea Province from Khartoun to Tokar

  • Train, Russell E., 1920-2012. Diaries for 1956, part 1-2

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to his father Henry Nelson, relating his confrontation and skirmishes with natives

  • Bernhard Leopold, Prince, consort of Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, 1911-2004. Autograph letter signed to Russell E. Train, from "Soestdijk"

  • Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore collection of 65 photographs (plus duplicates) of his paintings of the wildlife of Canada

  • Lort-Phillips, Frederick Alfred, 1872-1944. Typescript diary, Somaliland & the Galla Country

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Various miscellaneous notes, with newspaper clipping and photograph

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Zoo photographs of elephant, chimpanzee, and a coati-mundi, the latter being introduced to Prof. Auguste Piccard

  • Train, Russell E., 1920-2012. Text of remarks made by Russell E. Train at the 25th anniversary dinner of the African Wildlife Foundation in the great rotunda of the Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, photographer. Collection of 190 photographs depicting caribou, other wildlife, scenery, Indians and other scenes

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph letter signed to Major James B. Pond, 2 Richmond Terrace

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. List of species which are usually misnamed by dealers in the United States

  • Autograph letter, unsigned, addressed "To the King"

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to Dr. Kirk and his companions, from "off Shupanga", Mozambique

  • Robert Henry Nelson collection of seven leather wallets made by various manufacturers (Boudet, Inchbold & Viney, and others), some of which may have been used during the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to John Kirk

  • Mackenzie, Charles Frederick, Bishop, 1825-1862. Autograph letter signed to Professor Sedgwick, from Oxford

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Letter to Kermit Roosevelt from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931. Autograph letter signed, concluding with a pen and ink sketch, to "Dear Fred" (Frederick Courtenay Selous), from Horsham, Sussex

  • Abel Chapman portrait, showing him and others rescuing a sheep from Great Wannces Crag

  • Color poster advertising the February 1898 issue of Century Magazine with an article by Stanley, entitled "The story of the development of Africa"

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft article on lions at the Milwaukee Zoo

  • Dalrymple-White, Henry Arthur, 1917-2006. African impressions by Henry Cary (Part 1)

  • Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie (Firm) Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie steamer schedule, April-May 1903

  • Morse, Tyler, 1875-. Autograph diary of hunting trip from Asmara, Eritrea, to Adis Ababa and Harrar, 15 February 1902 to 23 May 1902, and a second safari from about 26 September 1902 to 31 December 1902 (when diary stops)

  • Brittain's Studio, photographer. Trader Horn photographic portrait, signed "Aloysius Horn," made by Brittain's Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Robert Henry Nelson collection of train tickets and transit passes, including first class train tickets from Ems, Germany to Brussels North; one pass for the funicular railway which runs up to the Malberg Mountain; and one unknown pass issued in Ems, Germany

  • A small colored likeness of Livingstone on card, with biography of him on reverse

  • The London Missionary Society, after London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company(?), The life and work of David Livingstone

  • Count Teleki and Lt. Hohnel report discovery of lake named Basson-Aros to the NW of Lake Samburu. The Times

  • African Wildlife Foundation. Invitation to the unveiling of the elephant in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. Autograph letter signed to Sir Roderick (Murchison), from the Athenaeum, London

  • Henry Morton Stanley group photograph with natives

  • Two autograph letters signed to Robert Henry Nelson (one from William G. Stairs dated 24 October 1887, and the other from A.J. Mounteney Jephson dated 17 November 1887), both containing derogatory remarks about Henry Morton Stanley

  • Brooke, John Weston, 1880-1908. "Trip to the north of Lake Rudolph"

  • Train, Russell E., 1920-2012. Diary for 1961

  • Maps

  • Hunter, J. A. (John Alexander), 1887-1963. Hidden Africa. Nairobi

  • Inventory of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot's effects and copies of documents in his possession at the time of his death in Yambuya, July 1888

  • Album of 71 black and white albumen print photographs of colonial South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to "The Author's Syndicate" from Surrey

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to "My Dear Thomas," from Auchentoshan, Dalmuir, New Brunswick

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Numerous articles concerning the Milwaukee Zoo

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to his sponsor James Young

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Typescript of At close quarters with wild animals, being an account of unusual and exciting experiences when hunting with the camera in Africa, Canada and Newfoundland, illustrated by the author

  • Two arrows from Africa

  • Oates, William Edward, 1841-1896. Small pocket notebook

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autograph letter signed to Carl Von Hoffman

  • Edward, Duke of Windsor collection of safari photographs, including photos of the Prince and others of his party, including Raymond H. Hewlett and Denys Finch Hatton, taken on the East Africa safari

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter to his father Henry Nelson

  • London Stereoscopic Company, photographer. Robert Moffat carte de visite portrait

  • Morse, Tyler, 1875-. Diary

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