| 1 | Creator: | Dorr, Dalton. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | [Under the midnight sun].
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1869 | | | | Abstract: | A companion volume of albumen prints taken by William Bradford and other members of the "Panther", in Greenland, in the summer of 1869. This voyage is described in Hayes, I. I. The Land of Desolation; William Bradford was the Captain of the Panther. | | | | Call #: | Mss.919.8.D73u | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions -- Description and travel. | Arctic regions -- Pictorial works. | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration | Bradford, William, 1823-1892 | Dorr, Dalton. | Hayes, I. I, (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Inuit--Greenland | Maps. | Panther (Ship) | |
| 2 | Creator: | Shindler, A. Zeno(Antonio Zeno),1823-1899. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1852-1869 | | | | Abstract: | A shadowy figure at best, the artist Antonio Zeno Shindler worked at the Smithsonian Institution from after the Civil War until the turn of the 20th century, specializing in ethnographic subjects. He was responsible for printing or taking a large number of photographs of American Indians exhibited there in 1869.
The 95 studio portraits in the Shindler Collection were part of a suite of 301 images that comprised the first photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian, and that are documented in the catalogue
Photographic Portraits of North American Indians in the Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (1867). The individuals depicted were members of delegations sent to Washington during the years 1852, 1857-1858, and 1867-1869 from the following nations: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Choctaw, Dakota Sioux (Brule, Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Santee, Sisseton, Two-Kettle, Yankton), Osage, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, Seminole, and Ute. Shindler printed the earlier photographs (mostly taken by the McClees Gallery) and was photographer for the later delegations. | | | | Call #: | Mss.970.1.Sh6 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Cherokee Indians--Photographs | Cheyenne Indians--Photographs | Chippewa Indians--Photographs | Choctaw Indians--Photographs | Dakota Indians--Photographs | Indians of North America--Photographs | Osage Indians--Photographs | Pawnee Indians--Photographs | Photographs | Plains Indians | Ponca Indians--Photographs | Potawatomi Indians--Photographs | Sac and Fox Indians--Photographs | Seminole Indians--Photographs | Shindler, A. Zeno(Antonio Zeno),1823-1899. | Smithsonian Institution. | Southeast Indians | Ute Indians--Photographs | |
| 3 | Creator: | Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1859-1882 | | | | Abstract: | A traveler, archaeologist, and photographer, Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) was one of the most important early expeditionary photographers. During his tours of Yucatan, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886, Charnay became one of the first to use photography in documenting the great Meso-American archaeological sites and to make ethnographic photographs of indigenous Mexicans. His major publications
Cités et Ruines Américaines (Paris, 1862) and
Les Anciennes Villes du Nouveau Monde (Paris, 1885) are important transitional works to the later scientific archaeology of Alfred Maudslay.
The collection of photographs taken by Desire Charnay are representative of the range of images he took of Meso-American archaeological sites during three tours of Mexico in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886. Although some of the images have suffered an unfortunate degree of fading, they convey the power and fascination that these sites held for Charnay and his contemporaries, and include some of the best early examples of the use of photography in the documentation of Mexican archaeology. The collection includes 123 images of the sites at Tula, Teotihuacan, Iztaccihuatl, Chichen Itza, Comalcalco, and Palenque, of archaeological specimens held at the Museum of Mexico, and of landscape and villages in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Oaxaca, as well as a series of Lacandon, Mayan, Mixtec, and Yucatec "racial types." | | | | Call #: | Mss.913.72.Ab23 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927 | Albumen prints | Archaeology--Mexico--Photographs | Carte de visite photographs | Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Chichen Itza Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Comalcalco Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Ethnographic photography | Indians of Mexico--Photographs | Kabah Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Lacandon Indians--Photographs | Madeira (Madeira Islands)--Photographs | Maya Indians--Photographs | Mexico--Antiquities--Photographs | Mitla Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Mixtec Indians--Photographs | Museo Nacional de Mexico--Photographs | Oaxaca (Mexico)--Antiquities--Photographs | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)--Photographs | Photographs | Southwest Indians | Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico)--Photographs | Toltecs--Antiquities--Photographs | Tula Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico)--Photographs | Uxmal Site (Mexico)--Photographs | Yucatan (Mexico)--Antiquities--Photographs | |
| 4 | Creator: | Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Speck-Choate Photograph Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1879-1881 | | | | Abstract: | The United States Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., was founded by Gen. Richard Henry Pratt in 1879, and served as a model for government boarding schools for Indians until its closure in 1918. Over 10,000 students enrolled at the Carlisle Training School during its 39 years, where, separated from their native cultures, the students were prepared for work in industrial and manual labor and socialized into "civilized" life. Given new white names to replace their Indian ones, the students were prohibited from speaking their native languages, were instructed in Christianity, and were fed, clothed, and housed under strict military discipline.
The 27 photographs in the Speck-Choate Photograph Collection were taken by J. N. Choate, a local commercial photographer in Carlisle, Pa., and collected by the anthropologist Frank G. Speck. Choate advertised "Photographs of all the Indian Chiefs that have visited the Indian Training School at Carlisle Barracks, also of children in native and school costumes" and were intended to document the benefits of civilization that the school brought to Indians. Typical images include "before and after" shots of students in native dress and school uniforms, the school band, and shots of the students at work in the saddle shop and making shoes. Choate also took a number of images of visiting chiefs in traditional dress, including the Lakota chief Spotted Tail, and the Cheyennes Man on Cloud and Mad Wolf. One photograph depicts Richard Henry Pratt seated with Quaker supporters. Among the tribes represented are the Lakota, Laguna, Cheyenne, Creek, Lipan, and Pueblo. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sp3c | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Boudoir card photographs | Cabinet card photographs | Cheyenne Indians--Photographs | Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902 | Creek Indians--Photographs | Dakota Indians--Photographs | Ethnographic photography | Indians of North America--Photographs | Laguna Indians--Photographs | Lipan Indians--Photographs | Mad Wolf, Cheyenne Chief | Man on Cloud, Cheyenne Chief | Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924 | Pueblo Indians--Photographs | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Spotted Tail, Brule Sioux Chief, 1823-1881 | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Photographs | White Buffalo, Cheyenne Chief | |
| 5 | Creator: | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aaron Young papers, [ca. 1839-1894]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1839-1894 | | | | Abstract: | This is primarily a collection of letters, with some additional documents, concerning Young's interest in botany, geology, mineralogy, and natural history. There is information about Bowdoin College, where he studied under Parker Cleaveland. There is also much on the natural history of Maine, where he was the State Botanist in 1847-1849, and also on the Bangor Natural History Society. There are materials on Brazil in relation to Young's service there as the U.S. consul to Rio Grande do Sul from 1863 to 1873. There are also letters from his brother, John C. Young, and his sister, Sarah Augusta Young. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Y81 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, George N. | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Albumen prints | Americans Abroad | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bangor Natural History Society. | Bartlett, John | Blake, Charles M. | Botany. | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Bowdoin College -- Students. | Brazil -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Chute, Ariel P. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Education | Educational Material | Emerson, John | Geology. | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Holmes, Ezekiel, 1801-1865 | International Travel | Mead, S. B. | Mineralogy. | Natural history -- Maine. | Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Science and Technology | Thurber, George, 1821-1890 | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Warren, John | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Young, John C. | Young, Sarah Augusta | |
| 6 | Creator: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Franz Boas Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Abstract: | During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism.
This collection includes correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61 | | | | Extent: | 59.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Andrews, H.A. | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Anthropology--Research--United States | Anthropology--United States--History. | Anthropology--United States. | Arctic Indians | Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Ernst P., (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bowditch, Charles P., (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 | Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 | Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 | Cabinet cards | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946 | Crane, M. E. | Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961 | Ethnology--North America | Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 | Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Gelatin silver prints | Germanistic Society of America | Gordon, George Byron, 1911- | Heye, George G., (George Gustav), 1874-1957 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Ethnology | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--Nunavut | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 | Keppel, Frederick P., (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 | Maps | McGee, W. J., 1853-1912 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Negatives | Northwest Coast Indians | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Photomechanical prints | Postcards | Race, race relations, racism | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Refugees, Political | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sargent, H. E. | Scientists, Refugee | Seler, Eduard | Sketches. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Socialists--United States | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Tlingit Indians | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Frank G. Speck Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1950 | | | | Abstract: | Anthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was unique among Franz Boas' early graduate students at Columbia University. Unlike other ethnographers of his time who focused their studies on the Western Indian tribes, Speck chose to study the cultures of the Eastern Woodland Indians. Becoming the self-appointed salvage ethnographer for those tribes, Speck was regularly with the Indians he studied, collecting all aspects of their culture.
The Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of Speck's professional correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. The material focuses on the Eastern Woodlands Indians, particularly the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Houma, Iroquois, Labrador Eskimo, Mantagnais-Naskapi, Nanticoke, Penobscot, Powhatan, Algonkian, and Yuchi. The collection is divided into two subcollections: Subcollection 1 is comprised of Speck's research material and correspondence, and Subcollection 2 consists of his manuscripts and related correspondence. The two subcollections were acquired separately by the Society, and were originally cataloged as the Frank G. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3) and the Frank G. Speck Manuscripts on Native Americans (970.3 Sp3p) respectively. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.126 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abenaki Indians | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | Adney, E. Tappan (Edwin Tappan), 1868-1950 | Albumen prints | Algonquian Indians | Athapascan Indians | Atikamekw Indians | Baily, A. G. | Beothuk Indians | Beston, Elizabeth Coatsworth | Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 | Billiot, Anthony | Billiot, Maurice | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bororo Indians | Brimley, C. S. (Clement Samuel), 1863-1946 | Broom, Leonard | Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution) | Cabinet cards | Cabot, W. B. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Carte de visite photographs | Catawba Indians | Cayuga Indians | Cheroenhaka Indians | Cherokee Indians | Circumboreal | Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907- | Comas, Juan, 1900- | Committee for International Research in Arctic Ethnology | Cree Indians | Creek Indians | Cyanotypes | Dahl, Richard S. | Delaware Indians | Diagrams. | Diamond Jenness | Double Curve Motif | Douglas, Frederic Huntington, 1897-1956 | Dutcher, Willena B. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Eskimo | Ethnography | Forde, C. Daryll (Cyril Daryll), 1902- | Gelatin silver prints | Great Basin Indians | Griffin, James B. | Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940. | Hassrick, Royal B. | Hayne, Hayward | Herris, R. H. | Hokan-Coahuiltecan languages | Houma Indians | Howley, James Patrick, 1847-1918 | Huaiquilaf, J. Martin Collio | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alberta | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--California | Indians of North America--Canada | Indians of North America--Colorado | Indians of North America--Connecticut | Indians of North America--Delaware | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--Louisiana | Indians of North America--Maine | Indians of North America--Massachusetts | Indians of North America--Montana | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Indians of North America--Newfoundland and Labrador | Indians of North America--North Carolina | Indians of North America--Northeastern States | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--Ontario | Indians of North America--Quebec (Province) | Indians of North America--Saskatchewan | Indians of North America--South Carolina | Indians of North America--Southeastern States | Indians of North America--Virginia | Indians of South America--Brazil | Inuit--Canada | Iroquois Indians | Johnson, Frederick | Jones, Volney H. (Volney Hurt), 1903- | Kansa Indians | Lagore, Eli | Lantern slides. | Laulin, "Redge" | Laulin, Gladys | Leach, Henry Goddard, 1880-1970. | Learmouth, D. H. | Lips, Julie E. | Lithographs. | MacLeod, William Christie | Malecite Indians | Maps | Mende (African People) | Messurier, William L. | Micmac Indians | Miller, Samuel "James" | Mistassin Indians | Mohawk Indians | Montagnais Indians | Moulton, F. R. (Forest Ray), 1872-1952 | Nanticoke Indians | Naskapi Indians | Native American culture | Native American linguistics | Native American lore & legends | Negatives | Newspaper clippings. | Ninham, John Alexander | Ojibwa Indians | Oklahoma Delaware Indians | Omaha Indians | Onondaga Indians | Orchard, W. C. | Paintings. | Pamunkey Indians | Passamaquoddy Indians | Pennsylvania | Penobscot Indians | Pequot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Picard, L. P. O. | Picture-writing | Plains Indians | Postcards | Quimby, George | Raynolds, Frances | Revillon FrèresTrading Company. | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Shawnee Indians | Sherbro (African People) | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Stern, Theodore, 1917- | Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962. | Sub-Arctic Indians | Swales, Bradshaw Hall, 1875- | Swan, Sankey | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Thomas, Chief David | Tintypes | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Trotter, Spencer, 1860-1931. | Tuscarora Indians | Tyler, Dorothy Louise, 1899-1979 | Wallace, Paul A. W. -- Pictorial works | Walser, Richard, 1908- | Wawenock Indians | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975. | White, Richard Jr. | White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946 | Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Wiswall, Richard Hall, 1916- | Wiyot-Yorok | Wyman, Waiter Channing | Yao (African People) | Yuchi Indians | |
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