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National Anthropological Archives
J. F. McClendon photographs and postcard collection relating to Ainu people, circa 1930s
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.102
- Creators:
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McClendon, J. F. (Jesse Francis), b. 1880
- Dates:
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circa 1930s
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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10 Printssilver gelatin33 Postcardsoffset lithograph, photogravure, and collotype
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Album of photographs documenting Ainu people, ceremonies, religious customs, fishing, hunting, and other activities. J. F. McClendon evidently assembled the material in order to try to show that Native Americans and Ainu people were not directly related. The collection includes commercial postcards published in Japanese and English and original photographs probably made by McCLendon.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Jesse Francis McClendon was born in Lanett, Alabama, in 1880. He studied zoology and invertebate zoology at the University of Texas (BS, 1903 and MS, 1904) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1906). After teaching at Randolph-Macon College (1907-1908), the University of Missouri (1907-1909) and Cornell University (1909-1914), McClendon obtained a position in the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He was appointed professor and head of physiological chemistry in 1920. McClendon taught for a period at the Biological Institute in Sendai, Japan, probably while still with the University of Minnesota during the 1930s. His book, Advances in the Science of Nutrition, was published by Sasaki in Sendai (1937). In 1939, McClendon joined the Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. He later became a research chemist at the Albert Einstein Medical Center there.
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
Donated by Jesse. F. McClendon, November 1970.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 102, J. F. McClendon photographs and postcard collection relating to Ainu people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
The University of Minnesota Archives and the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia hold McClendon's papers.
Location of Other Archival Materials
The Entomology Department and Invertebrate Zoology Department hold specimens collected by McClendon.
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 102
Other Finding Aids note
Other Finding Aids note
Preliminary finding aid available in repository.
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Ainu | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Postcards | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Fishing | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Hunting | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Rites and ceremonies | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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