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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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  • Smith, Philip Henry, active 1870. Philip Henry Smith autograph diary (or memoir) kept in South Africa

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. Autograph letter signed to Sir Roderick (Murchison), from 7 Park Square

  • Parker, Henry Perrott, 1852-1888. Autograph letter signed to his mother, from Sabundila's Village

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Bulwer, Surrey, 18 September

  • Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) printed document with manuscript additions, addressed to "Capt. L.E.G. Oates"

  • Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell portrait study, showing him in the uniform of the Royal Flying Corps, "Karamoja"

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to an unknown recipient

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Partial autograph letter signed to Major James B. Pond

  • Taylor, John, 1900-1969. Typed letters signed to "Alex"

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Manuscript of Two boys in the wilds of Africa

  • Emin Pasha, 1840-1892. Autograph letter signed to W.H. Flower, Director of the British Museum of Natural History, from "Wadelai"

  • Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919. Autograph letter signed to Major J.B. Pond, written from "6 Carlton House Terrace, Pall Mall, London"

  • Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore collection of 62 original photographs of his oil paintings depicting African game animals

  • Newspaper clipping about Frederick Courteney Selous from Globe Democrat, Saint Louis, Missouri

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. Autograph letter signed to Sir Samuel Baker, from Upper Grosvenor Street, 'Midnight'

  • Beard, Peter H. (Peter Hill), 1938-. Autograph letter signed to Russell E. Train

  • Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907, artist. Five original humorous watercolor drawings, depicting the progress of Stanley through Africa to the Albert Nyanza

  • Tarlington, A., artist. Lithograph, "Meeting of Livingstone with Stanley at Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika." W.P. Bennett (publisher?)

  • African Wildlife Foundation. News article about the elephant in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History

  • Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919. Autograph letter signed to Major J.B. Pond, written from the "Windsor Hotel", (N.Y.)

  • Plumbe and Bradshaw, photographer. Paul Kruger signed cabinet photograph, made by Plumbe and Bradshaw, Pretoria

  • Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, artist. Original pen and ink drawing of "Elephant cow feeding on cane grass"

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, artist. Grisaille study of the interior of a beaver lodge

  • Wilkin, W. H. (Walter Harold), 1876-. Autograph letters signed addressed to Rupert Shoolbred, Scotland, written while on a hunting safari in Kenya

  • Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Original manuscript of his English translation from the testimony in Swahili of Stanley's "boy" Saleh Bin Osman. New York

  • Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929. Collection of 124 original ink and wash drawings by Chapman for Savage Sudan

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autograph letter signed to Dr. H. Schouteden

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to William Fairbrother, from Kolobeng, Bakwain country

  • Burger, John F., 1888-. Collection of 24 black & white photographs, mostly with labels, used in the publication of Horned death

  • Douglas-Hamilton, Diarmaid Hugh, 1940-. Typed letter signed to Russell E. Train, from Beverly, Massachusetts

  • Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, 1880-1946, photographer. Photographs of a 1930 expedition to Uganda, Eastern Belgian Congo, and the Sudan to collect zoological and botanical specimens for the British Museum of Natural History

  • Tea cup with a portrait of David Livingstone and the legend "A Present from Blantyre."

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to E. Watts, 18 Hart Street, London

  • Philipp, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1844-1921, compiler. Jagdexpidition im Sudan

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Colles, Surrey

  • Harris, Claude, active 1912, photographer. Portrait of James Sutherland and Major G.H. ("Andy") Anderson

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to his father Henry Nelson, London, 12 April 1890, concerning various people he had met and referring to a complimentary letter from Henry Morton Stanley

  • London Stereoscopic Company. Carte de visite portrait of Samuel White Baker

  • Obituary for James Sutherland, "A great elephant hunter." Newspaper clipping from an unidentified source

  • Newspaper clipping from the Yorkshire post, confirming Nelson's appointment to service in the Imperial British East Africa Company

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autograph letter signed to the American Express Company

  • Verney Lovett Cameron biography and portrait

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Colles, from Surrey

  • Kirk, John, Sir, 1832-1922. Autograph letter to "Alick" (his brother Alexander), from Shupanga, Zambeze

  • Barrow, Effie. H.M. Stanley as I knew him 70 years ago

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. Autograph letter signed to Sir Roderick (Murchison), from Dingwall, 'Saturday'

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph letters signed to C.B. Crisp, from various locations including Richmond Terrace, Whitehall; Pretoria and Bulawayo

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

  • Kidd, Dudley. Autograph letter signed to his brother John, from Zululand

  • Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) dinner in honor of Henry Morton Stanley, Grosvenor Gallery, London

  • Photograph albums documenting the Prince of Wales's trips to Africa

  • Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919. Autograph letter signed to Major J.B. Pond, written from "6 Carlton House Terrace S.W."

  • Domestic servant's pocket register. Colony and Protectorate of Kenya

  • African game photographs, primarily showing game shot in the field, possibly in Rhodesia

  • Frederick Courteney Selous newspaper clippings (mainly obituaries)

  • Dasmann, Raymond Fredric, 1919-2002. Autograph letter signed to Russell E. Train

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autobiographical sketch

  • Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896. Autograph invitation to attend Sir Richard F. Burton's funeral at Mortlake

  • Thaw, Margaret Stout. Autograph diary covering an East African safari, sailing from New York, and closing in Buenos Aires

  • Clark, Percy M., 1874-1937, photographer. Souvenir of the Victoria Falls, 12 photographs of the Falls and environs

  • Mackenzie, John, 1835-1899. Collection of autograph letters signed and autograph retained copies (mostly signed)

  • Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens (Wis.). Treasurer's report for the Milwaukee Zoo for the year ending 1 October 1931

  • Parker, Henry Perrott, 1852-1888. Autograph letter signed to his mother, written on the way to Mamboia

  • Millar, Harold Martel, 1865-1961. Manuscript of the Birds of Southern Africa

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to "My dear sir" to Sir Richard Southey, Colonial Secretary of the Cape of Good Hope, from "River) Zambezi"

  • Cameron, Verney Lovett, 1844-1894. Autograph letter signed to unknown recipient

  • Henry Morton Stanley photographs

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed from "Cataracts of Shire," to his sponsor James Young

  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Printed ticket for the Zoological Society of London, signed by Rudyard Kipling, granting admission for one adult and two children to the gardens in Regent's Park

  • Certificate of Edmund Heller's election to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

  • Captain Roy John Dugdale "Samaki" Salmon portrait sketch (photograph)

  • Abel Chapman, 1851-1929. Sudan sketchbooks

  • Galler, J. G., active 1822-1834. Journal of a cruise down the east coast of Africa on board H.M.S. Andromache

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Pencil notes, apparently on the topic of his typescript article about the Roosevelt elephant hunt

  • Autograph letter signed, "Bob" to Mrs. J.A. Brooke

  • Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875. Autograph journal of his first journey into the South African gold fields, Transvaal and Matabeleland

  • Ogilby, William, 1808-1873. Autograph letter signed to Richard Taylor, from 47, Gower Street

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, artist. Grisaille study of beaver(s) building their dam

  • Unidentified piece of metal formerly in the possession of Robert Henry Nelson, possibly dating from his time with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

  • Robert Henry Nelson personal papers

  • Younghusband, Ethel, photographer. Photo album pertaining to her book, Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar, 1910

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Narrative concerning birth of lion clubs at the Milwaukee Zoo

  • Artifacts

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Numerous book reviews by Heller

  • Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898. Autograph letter signed to Sir Roderick Murchison, from 11 Carlton House, Terrace S.W.

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. "Geographical tasks for future explorers," an undated draft article /Henry Morton Stanley

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to his father Henry Nelson, informing him that the Administrator General had agreed with his actions

  • London Stereoscopic Company. Photographic portrait of 'Pasha Gordon' (i.e., Charles George Gordon), taken at Khartoum and printed on cardboard in London

  • Pratt, George D. (George Dupont), 1869-1935. Typescript of With gun and camera in the heart of darkest Africa. A sillygism

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Colles, Surrey

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939, photographer. One glass slide of an African camp scene

  • Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, artist. Drawing, "Herd of black wildebeest commencing to run and separate into three curves"

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Miscellaneous items

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. Series of 9 autograph letters, all to the Rev. Thomas Wakefield, a Methodist missionary in East Africa

  • Quesada, Elwood R. (Elwood Richard), 1904-. Typed transcript of a taped interview between Russell E. Train and General Quesada about Quesada's safari with Martin and Osa Johnson of 1932

  • Burger, John F., 1888-. Typed manuscript of Horned death, with author's corrections (Standard Publications, Huntington, 1947)

  • Henry Morton Stanley, Robert Henry Nelson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson, and William Grant Stairs group photograph

  • Vanity Fair cartoon, "Big Game," depicting F.C. Selous

  • Waller, Horace, 1833-1896. Butterflies collected in the Shire Valley, East Africa

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

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