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.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890660-0
