Portraits of anthropologists, circa 1860s-1970
Sarah Ganderup
2013 December 09
National Anthropological Archives Museum Support Center 4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland 20746 [email protected] http://www.anthropology.si.edu/naa/ Table of Contents
Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Local Call Number(s)...... 2 Scope and Contents note...... 2 Names and Subjects ...... 3 Portraits of anthropologists NAA.PhotoLot.33
Collection Overview
Repository: National Anthropological Archives
Title: Portraits of anthropologists
Identifier: NAA.PhotoLot.33
Date: circa 1860s-1970
Extent: 1 Print (photogravure) 8 Prints (halftone (including one newspaper clipping)) 124 Prints (circa; silver gelatin, albumen, and platinum) 50 Copy prints (circa) 3 copper printing plates 1 Color print 1 Print (wood engraving) 3 Copy negatives (glass)
Language: Undetermined .
Administrative Information
Provenance The file was put together in the archives during the 1950s from photographs of diverse origins. Some items are from other collections in the National Anthropological Archives and are noted as such.
Location of Other Archival Materials Four photographs with negatives by Matilda Coxe Stevenson have been relocated to Photo Lot 23.
Location of Other Archival Materials This collection includes photographs that have been removed from other collections in the National Anthropological Archives, including MS 4970, MS 4851, MS 4780, MS 4250, MS 4751, MS 4516, MS 4860, MS 4695, MS 4970, and MS 4558.
See others in Portraits of anthropologists, 1860s-1960s
Other Finding Aids Inventory available in repository.
Available Formats Digital surrogates for most photographs are available online.
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Preferred Citation Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.
Scope and Contents
This collection is an artificial collection of photographs, copper plates, and a few notes, all of which depict or relate to anthropologists, many of which were associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Included are portraits of Franz Boas, Q. M. Bond, Arno B. Cammerer, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Edwin Hamilton Davis, J. Woodbridge Davis, Frances Densmore, James Owen Dorsey, Philip Drucker, Jesse Walter Fewkes (including photographs of his home by Frances Densmore), Albert Samuel Gatschet, James A. Geary, De Lancey W. Gill, George Brown Goode, Horatio Hale, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, John K. Hillers, William Henry Holmes, William Henry Jackson, Eugene Irving Knez, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Pere Albert Lacomb, Augustus Le Plongeon, James Mooney, Lewis Henry Morgan, Carl Oschsicanes, James Constantine Pilling, John Wesley Powell, Frau Signe Rink, Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., Charles C. Royce, Robert Lloyd Stephenson, James Stevenson, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Julian Haynes Steward, Steward Struever, James Gilchrist Swan, John Reed Swanton, Edwin P. Upham, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and Gordon Randolph Willey. Groups depicted include the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1936; the De Soto Commission; officers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885; a 1920 expedition group to Hawikuk; staff of the Great Lakes Division, United States Geological Survey, in Salt Lake City, 1882; a group at Moundville, Alabama, 1932; the University of Nebraska archeological field party, 1920; the Pecos conference, 1927; John Wesley Powell with Wild Hank, Kentucky Mountain Bill, and Jesus Aloiso; and the United States Geological Survey staff, ca. 1894.
Among photographers represented are Vernon Orlando Bailey, Blackston Studios of New York, Dana of New York, Frances Densmore, Gene Garrett, C. W. Gilbert, De Lancey W. Gill, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, Kets Kemethy, Paul Koby, David McDonough, H. C. Phillips, Rice of Washington, D. C., and J. A. Shuck of El Reno, Oklahoma.
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 33
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Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Types of Materials: Photographs
Names: American Association for the Advancement of Science Bachrach & Brother Bailey, Vernon Orlando Blackstone Studios Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 Bond, Q. M. Cammerer, Arno B. Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 Dana (of New York) Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888 Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957 Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895 Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982 Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Garrett, Gene Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 Geary, James A. Geological Survey (U.S.) Gilbert, C. W. Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940 Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896 Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896 Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961 Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 Hillers, John K., 1843-1925 Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976 Kemethy, Kets Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010 Koby, Paul Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908 Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908 Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905 McDonough, David McGee, W J, 1853-1912 Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 Mooney, James, 1861-1921 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 National Geographic Society (U.S.) Nicholson, Grace, -1948
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Parker, Charles Phillips, H. C. Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 Rice (of Washington, D.C.) Rink, Signe Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966 Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923 Shuck, J. A. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919- Stevenson, James, 1840-1888 Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915 Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972 Struever, Stuart Swan, James G., 1818-1900 Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 United States De Soto Expedition Commission Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918 Washburn, Wilcomb E. Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
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