National Anthropological Archives

Portraits of anthropologists, circa 1860s-1970

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.33
Dates:
circa 1860s-1970
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
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
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

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.

Administration

Author
Sarah Ganderup
Existence and Location of Copies note
Digital surrogates for most photographs are available online.
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.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
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.
Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Location of Other Archival Materials

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.

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More Information

Local Call Number(s)

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 33

Other Finding Aids note

Other Finding Aids note
Inventory available in repository.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cammerer, Arno B. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dana (of New York) Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Struever, Stuart Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Garrett, Gene Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Geological Survey (U.S.) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gilbert, C. W. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
American Association for the Advancement of Science Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
United States De Soto Expedition Commission Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stevenson, James, 1840-1888 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bachrach & Brother Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Blackstone Studios Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bailey, Vernon Orlando Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bond, Q. M. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Nicholson, Grace, -1948 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Parker, Charles Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rink, Signe Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rice (of Washington, D.C.) Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Geary, James A. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kemethy, Kets Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Swan, James G., 1818-1900 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Koby, Paul Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Washburn, Wilcomb E. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Phillips, H. C. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Shuck, J. A. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
McGee, W J, 1853-1912 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
McDonough, David Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mooney, James, 1861-1921 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
National Geographic Society (U.S.) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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