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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

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  • Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864. Autograph letter signed to Christopher Rigby, Consul at Zanzibar, from Bomani, "3rd"

  • Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore lecture posters, entitled "Fighting it out" and "A soldier's story of the War"

  • John Hanning Speke portrait engraved by Samuel Hollyer, from a photograph by Southwell Brothers

  • Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895. Autograph letter signed, addressed to "Fagan" of the Natural History Museum, from Naples

  • Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. Autograph letter signed to "My Dear Sir", dated "Tuesday 7" only

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

  • Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895. Autograph letter signed, addressed to "My Lord", from 7, Weymouth Street, Portland Place W. (London)

  • Martin and Osa Johnson collection of 133 photographs documenting their adventures in Africa

  • Mills, Dora S. Yarnton, compiler. Photograph album and scrapbook, containing twenty photographs and other ephemera connected with her time in Africa

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Typescript of Looking over my shoulder, by Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore, in collaboration with Reginald H. Ambrose

  • Berkely, Ernest, active 1892. Letters, one official and the other private, to Robert Henry Nelson, Mombasa

  • John Hanning Speke carte de visite portrait, photographed by Southwell Brothers

  • Teleki, Sámuel, gróf, 1739-1822. Personal diary of explorations in East Africa. Translated by Charles and Vera Teleki, April 30, 1961

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft of article which opens with 'My most thrilling moment with elephants...'

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Dear Sir, Surrey

  • Church of England. Notarial act on the consecration of Henry Perrott Parker as Bishop

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Articles concerning birds

  • Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875. Storekeeper's manuscript notebook to the Zambesi Expedition led by Dr. Livingstone

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Letters to the Directors of the Imperial British East Africa Company, applying for service unpaid

  • Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore collection of approximately 83 original photographs of East African game, safari camp scenes and native villages

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph note on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in Africa. Stoke's Village, Nsango

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Henry Morton Stanley address to the New Geographical Society of Edinburgh

  • London Chamber of Commerce. London Chamber of Commerce menu, table plan, and printed poem on lace lined silk, for the dinner held in Henry Morton Stanley's honor, 21 May 1890. Together with an autograph letter signed from Robert Henry Nelson to his father Henry Nelson relating to the dinner, dated 22 May 1890

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Letter to Baua Ismaili, to be read by Captain Nelson to the boy Sheriff who will put it into Swahilli proper for illegible presence of Ismaili

  • Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907, artist. Watercolor painting, "I beg your pardon!"

  • Waller, Mary Guthrie Truscott. Manuscript for "A mixed bag of safari and other stories"

  • Nelson, Henry, active 1889. Telegram to Captain Robert Henry Nelson

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Craik, from Singrampur, C.P.

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Mathers, from Barrymore House, Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to his publishers, Richard Bentley and Son, on Royal Geographical Society letterhead but amended to "28 Gloucester Road, Regents Park"

  • Clark, Sally, 1883-1982. Diaries of hunting trips in East Africa and Alaska

  • Bruce, James, 1730-1794. Autograph letter to an unnamed trusted friend, from Cairo

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, artist. Pencil sketches of caribou

  • Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896, artist. Preliminary pencil study for his composition entitled "The last trek"

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Henry Morton Stanley lecture, "The Congo, its past history, present development, and future prospects"

  • Henry Morton Stanley and Dorothy Tennant wedding service sheet, Westminster Abbey

  • Autograph diary initialed H.D.G., with details of visits to Malta, the United States, and South Africa

  • Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885. Charles George Gordon autograph letter signed to Sir Samuel Baker, from Duflé

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Untitled holograph manuscript about Emin Pasha, written in a large bold hand

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to a Mr. Barnes from Sandford Orleigh

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Letter of reference (for Robert Henry Nelson)

  • Baxter, George, 1804-1867, artist. Colored engraving of Robert Moffat

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Telegram to Robert Henry Nelson, concerning the conduct of Edward Henry Vizetelly in Nelson's camp

  • Waller, A. Sydney (Arthur Sydney), 1882-1952, photographer. Album containing photographs of his "Trader Horn" safari, 1929, in Belgian Congo and Uganda

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, videographer. Motion pictures, including North American and London scenes

  • Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Autograph letter signed to Major B. Pond, "North End" of Nyassa Lake

  • Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885. Engraving, "The discoverers of the source of the Nile." for the Eclectic magazine

  • Brooke, John Weston, 1880-1908. Snapshots, including family pictures and photos made on voyage to East Africa

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, photographer. Collection of photographs of Belgium during the war, showing tanks and ships. Together with items of an ephemeral nature, including announcement of Dugmore's lectures

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to John Kirk, from Shupanga, Mozambique, and a fragment to an unidentified recipient, probably Kirk

  • Church of England. Bishopric of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Brass seal of Bishop

  • Parke, Thomas Heazle, 1857-1893. Thomas Heazle Parke autograph letter signed to Ernest Hart, from "R.V.H. Netley, Hants"

  • Parker, Henry Perrott, 1852-1888. Autograph letter signed to his mother, from Mamboya

  • Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865. Autograph letter signed, to an unknown recipient, from 6 Schellingstrasse, Berlin

  • Imperial British East Africa Company Share certificate

  • Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, artist. Original pen and ink drawing of "Eland bull," from page 168 in On safari

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Small photograph of Edmund Heller and 3 Africans with dead gorilla with various portraits of Heller

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Pozuzo, 20 January-16 February (unknown year)

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to Sir Roderick Murchison, from Hedenham Hall

  • Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969. Black and white photographs from his East Africa expedition and from the O'Donnell-Clark expedition to Sudan

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed (fragment), date and place unidentified

  • Gleason, George H. Autograph letter signed to Edmund Heller

  • Oates, William Edward, 1841-1896, artist. Painting, "Hunter's camp on the Somokwe River"

  • Commemorative octagonal china plate celebrating Stanley's arrival at Cape Town en route to the Congo with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887

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

  • Brooke, John Weston, 1880-1908. Lecture poster for "A 2,000 mile tramp"

  • Seattle post-intelligencer newspaper clipping about Frederick Courteney Selous

  • Office of Chief Secretary (Entebbe, Uganda) Letter and license for the taking of one male gorilla, from the Office of Chief Secretary, Entebbe, Uganda, to Edmund Heller

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Agreement written in Stanley's hand for James B. Pond to use and have notarized: "Declaration to be something in this form, brief and to the point"

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Lecture fees in the form of two checks from Major James B. Pond. Dated New York 27 December 1890 and 21 January 1891

  • Prince Wilhelm of Sweden photograph entitled, "When Royal Prince meets the King of the Jungle"

  • News clippings from the Times, giving a description of Fort Smith, Kikuyu, 19 December 1892 and reporting that Captain Nelson was ill

  • Brooke, John Weston, 1880-1908. Letter, presumably written by Brooke to a colonial official, reporting on the East African Syndicate expedition and making recommendations for improving the administration of the area concerned

  • Hill, Stuart Hall, 1876-1948, compiler. Scrapbook of material related to Theodore Roosevelt, compiled in a copy of Roosevelt's book, African game trails

  • Dick Whittington Studio, photographer. Osa Johnson photographs

  • Works of Art

  • H. M. Stanley card collectors album

  • Newspapers

  • Sella, Vittorio, 1859-1943, photographer. Estratto catalogo fotographie. Ruwenzori ed Africa Centrale. S. Gerolamo-Biella

  • Edmund Heller personal papers

  • Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907, artist. Lithograph, "Whitefriar Stanley"

  • Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, -1926. Autograph letters signed to a close friend "Mary", from various places

  • Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927. "Pictures from the Uganda protectorate"

  • Assorted articles and special issues on Henry Morton Stanley, taken from various periodicals including The Strand, Illustrated London News, and the Graphic

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft article entitled "Wild animals I have eaten"

  • Blandy, Charles, active 1877. Letter to the managing proprietor of the Daily telegraph, Madeira

  • Waller, A. Sydney (Arthur Sydney), 1882-1952. Scrapbook with photos and newspaper clippings of the safari of H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester

  • News clipping (possibly from the New York herald), concerning Roosevelt's African safari

  • Burroughs Wellcome and Company, manufacturer. Medicine chest used by Robert Henry Nelson, possibly during his time with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Collection of miscellaneous black and white photographs

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autograph letter from the Belgian Congo

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Letter to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt

  • A set of photocopied magazine articles about Carl Ethan Akeley

  • Byroade, Henry A. (Henry Alfred), 1913-. Typed letter to Brigadier General H.A. Gerhardt

  • Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883. Autograph letter signed to Messrs. Cassell & Co., from 64, Knowle Road, Brixton

  • Cameron, Verney Lovett, 1844-1894. Autograph letter signed to Professor D. Oliver, from Shoreham Vicarage, Seven Oaks

  • Handwritten receipt on behalf of the trustees of David Livingstone, LL.D, signed by his son W. Oswell Livingstone

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Postage stamp collection

  • Photograph album labeled "South Africa 1904"

  • Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927, artist. Album of birds from the Chicago natural history museum

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