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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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  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Notes on the Roosevelt Expedition, 1909-1910

  • Bryden, H. A. (Henry Anderson), 1854-1937. Autograph letter signed, to "Dear Sir," from Down View, Gore Park Road, Eastbourne

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Black and white photograph collection

  • Egersdörfer, Heinrich, 1853-1915. Painting, "In for the kill"

  • Vanity Fair cartoon (London, England : 1868), "He found Livingstone"

  • Ross, H. C., active 1922. Autograph manuscript describing a hunting expedition with R. and G. Abercromby, from Khartoum to the White Nile

  • Kirk, John, Sir, 1832-1922. Autograph letter signed to an unnamed recipient, from 54 Albert Street, London

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph "memorandum for Mr. Alfred Cox Solicitor"

  • Palmer, E., active 1891. Typed letter signed. Cairo, concerning Robert Henry Nelson's application for employment in the Egyptian Service

  • Smit, J., artist. Original monochrome watercolor of Quagga

  • Fergus, John, active 1890, photographer. Photograph portraits of H.M. Stanley

  • Vanity Fair cartoon, "An earnest African"

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph letter signed to Mrs. Bruce (formerly Agnes Livingstone), from 30 Sackville Street

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

  • Edward Brookes (Firm), manufacturer. Milton hatchet manufactured by the Edward Brookes firm, formerly owned by Robert Henry Nelson, who may have used it during his time with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

  • Robert Henry Nelson obituary collection, including newspaper clippings from the Graphic and other publications reporting on his career and death

  • Darling, F. Fraser (Frank Fraser), 1903-1979. Autograph letter signed to Russell E. Train

  • Foran, W. Robert (William Robert), 1882-. Typescript of Famous early hunters in Africa

  • Burroughs Wellcome and Company, publisher. Medicine chest guide, with two court plasters, provided to Robert Henry Nelson for his central Africa expedition

  • Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Autograph letter signed to Major James B. Pond, St. Paul, Minnesota

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

  • Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926. Signed letter to Theodore Roosevelt

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to Henry Morton Stanley

  • Younghusband, Ethel. Scrapbook, containing press clippings from various publications which review or mention her book, "Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar"

  • Myers, Eveleen, 1856-1937, photographer. Henry Morton Stanley photographic portrait

  • Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903. Autograph letter signed to Mrs. John R. Drexel, from "Wooton," Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

  • MacPherson, J. S., active 1892. Formal reports to the Administrator General, Mombasa, reporting Capt. Nelson's death on 26 December 1892

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Untitled lecture based on his second East African Expedition

  • Manuscripts

  • Books

  • Whymper, Charles, 1853-artist. Four original en-grisaille watercolor drawings for Big game shooting (The Badminton library), edited by Major H. C. Maydon

  • A composition female figure contained in walnut shell, formerly owned by Robert Henry Nelson

  • Corn Exchange, Stratford-on-Avon, Wednesday, November 25, doors open at half-past seven, to commence at eight ... New and magnificent panorama of Africa : in which will be represented, with life-like accuracy, the most enchanting tropical scenery, interspersed with the most exciting adventures from the works of Sir S. Baker, Captain Mayne Reid, Captains Speke and Grant, and many other renowned African travellers, especially of the indefatigable missionary explorer, the late Dr. Livingstone ...

  • Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell portrait, showing him at home in Scotland, seated in a chair

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Typescript of Shifting tides: a tale not of the war but of the years which followed

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Black and white photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, with the bull elephant he had just killed

  • Cecil, Richard, 1799-1863. Autograph letter signed to Rev. W. Ellis, from Ongar

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Three miscellaneous negatives

  • Train, Russell E., 1920-2012. Diaries for 1958, part 1-2

  • Camp Roosevelt photograph

  • Stigand, C. H. (Chauncy Hugh), 1877-1919. Hunting diary

  • "With Stanley in Africa"

  • Yule, J., -1913, photographer. Photograph albums of East African scenes

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

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Visiting cards

  • John Weston Brooke printed broadside for a lecture

  • Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, -1926. Autograph letters signed to an unknown recipient

  • Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Original document ordaining Henry Perrott Parker as a Deacon, signed by the Bishop of Exeter

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Tramps About Mount Kenia :the ascent of Kenia, an equatorial snow mountain

  • Autograph letter signed to E. Heller, dated Kisenyi

  • Mackay, A. M. (Alexander Murdoch), 1849-1890. Autograph letter signed to Captain Robert Henry Nelson

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. "Discovery of the Source of the Nile," Ripon Falls, Uganda, from a drawing by Captain Grant. From the Illustrated London news

  • Emin Pasha, 1840-1892. Autograph note to Robert Henry Nelson

  • Curtis, Henry, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Descent of the Allied Families of Collier and Tennant, of Cadoxton Lodge, Co. Glamorgan, from the Protector, Oliver Cromwell

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Miscellaneous notes

  • Printed broadside issued by Glasgow College announcing an address by David Livingstone

  • Theisen, Earl, photographer. Collection of photographs of Ernest Hemingway taken on safari and in various places (e.g. Madrid, Kenya, Ketchum, Idaho)

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to Edward Marjoribanks, River Zambesi

  • Scott Studios (Firm), publisher. Theodore Roosevelt African safari collection of 108 glass slides

  • Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943. Original photograph of Theodore Roosevelt standing with his horse next to a felled rhinoceros

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to Mr. (Cuthbert?) Larking, from Ismailia "n.lat 4, 54"

  • Newspaper clippings about Cuthbert Christy's death, including obituary

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, artist. Grisaille study of the underwater life of the beaver

  • American Testimonial Banquet to Henry Morton Stanley. Portman Rooms, London

  • David Livingstone carte de visite photographic portraits

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft of article entitled, "Roosevelt's first elephant hunt was almost his last"

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Leather notebooks containing information on rosters and rations for the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Correspondence with the Melville Bell Grosvenor, National Geographic

  • Posters and broadsides

  • Hall, Sidney Prior, 1842-1922, artist. Drawing, "Stanley's meeting with Emin & Casati," by Sidney P. Hall

  • Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore lecture poster for "Snapping live game on the Roosevelt trail"

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Miscellaneous photographs, collected by Heller

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Miscellaneous black and white photos: some taken at the Milwaukee Zoo

  • Robert Henry Nelson trip schedule listing European countries

  • Passingham, Edmund John, photographer. Henry Morton Stanley photographic portrait

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph letter signed to Lady Franklin (widow of Sir John Franklin), from 5 Duchess Street, Portland Place

  • Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883. Autograph manuscript quotation of four line homily in Sechuana, with English translation

  • London Stereoscopic Company, photographer. Henry Morton Stanley, "Discoverer of Livingstone", portrait

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Autograph letter signed (transcript) to Edmund Heller

  • Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. Autograph letter signed, to the British Assistant Political Resident at Aden William M. Coghlan, from Camp Aden

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Craik, from Camp Ghat Pisseria

  • Newspaper articles from The New York Herald, providing reports on Henry Morton Stanley's trip down the Congo

  • Laws, Robert, 1851-1934, compiler. Photograph album containing 23 photographs of Laws, his family, members of the Livingstonia Mission, and big game

  • Piggott, J. R. W. Typed reports to the Secretary of the Imperial British East Africa Company, London, confirming his news by telegram of Captain Robert Henry Nelson's death

  • Potocki, Józef, hrabia. autograph letter signed to Sir George Bullough, Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rhum "by Oban"

  • Henry M. Stanley photogravure portrait, 1890, by Allen & Co., London, Ltd.

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

  • Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807-1848. Autograph letter signed to 'My dear White' from 'The Cedars'

  • Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927. Black and white pencil drawing, "Masai camp"

  • Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931. Autograph letter signed, to H.A. Bryden, from Melwood, Horsham, 21 March no year

  • Reid, J. Leonard, active 1904. Autograph diary

  • Train, Russell E., 1920-2012. Personal papers relating to African Safaris, 1956 – 1958, 1961

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter (copy), signed to the Marquis of Salisbury from Captain Nelson

  • Pemberton, C. Hubert. Big game shooting in Central Africa

  • Havill, Frederick, -1884. David Livingstone colored mezzotint portrait

  • David Livingstone correspondence with James Young, and fragments of other letters

  • London Stereoscopic Company, photographer. Henry Morton Stanley carte de visite portraits

  • Train, Russell E., 1920-2012. Personal papers

  • "Un Professeur d'Energie, Les Grandes Jours de la Vie de Stanley" (article contained in the February 1905 issue of Lectures pour tous)

  • Mitchell, Thomas, active 1862-1873. The "Pioneer" at anchor in Pomony harbour, Johanna

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