Object Details
Scope and Contents note
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.
sova.naa.photolot.33
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 33
Depicted
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Photographer
Bachrach & Brother
Blackstone Studios
Names
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Photographer
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Depicted
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
United States De Soto Expedition Commission
Photographer
Bailey, Vernon Orlando
Depicted
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Bond, Q. M.
Cammerer, Arno B.
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Photographer
Dana (of New York)
Depicted
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
Photographer
Garrett, Gene
Depicted
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Geary, James A.
Photographer
Gilbert, C. W.
Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
Depicted
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
Photographer
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Depicted
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976
Photographer
Kemethy, Kets
Depicted
Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
Photographer
Koby, Paul
Depicted
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905
Photographer
McDonough, David
Depicted
McGee, W J, 1853-1912
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881
Artist
Nicholson, Grace, -1948
Photographer
Parker, Charles
Phillips, H. C.
Depicted
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Photographer
Rice (of Washington, D.C.)
Depicted
Rink, Signe
Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923
Photographer
Shuck, J. A.
Depicted
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
Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
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Portraits of anthropologists
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)
Date
circa 1860s-1970
Custodial History note
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.
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.PhotoLot.33
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Copy prints
Color prints
Copy negatives
Photographs
Citation
Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Rights
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.
Existence and Location of Copies note
Digital surrogates for most photographs are available online.
Genre/Form
Photographs
Other Finding Aids note
Inventory available in repository.
Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
NAA.PhotoLot.33
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Record ID
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