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National Anthropological Archives
Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection, circa 1900-1910
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.98
- Creators:
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Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925 (collector and possible photographer)
- Dates:
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circa 1900-1910
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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300 Negativescircanitrate1,160 Lantern slidescirca14 Printssilver gelatin15 Copy negativesglass
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs collected and made by Helen Hamilton Gardener, probably during a world cruise following her husband's retirement from active duty in Puerto Rico in July 1902. The photographs document people, activities, cities, and tourist sites in Japan, China, Egypt, France, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere. Gardener's lecture notes and a clipping from the Porto Rico Review, 1910, are available with the collection. Lantern slides in the collection were probably used in Gardener's later lectures in the United States.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853-1925), born Alice Chenoweth in Virginia in 1853, was an author, feminist, and public official. Educated at the Cincinnati (Ohio) Normal School (graduated 1873), Chenoweth moved with her first husband, Charles S. Smart, to New York City in 1880. There, Chenoweth studied biology at Columbia University, lectured on sociology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and came into contact with the theories of freethinker Robert G. Ingersoll. Chenoweth published her own lectures on freethinking in "Men, Women, and Gods," and Other Lectures (1885), at which point she adopted the name Helen Hamilton Gardener. Gardener's feminism came to fruition in 1888, when she refuted the claim that the female brain was inferior to men's in her article "Sex in Brain," joining the struggle for equal rights for women. In 1902, Gardener married her second husband, Lieutenant Colonel Selden Allen Day, a Civil War veteran who organized the first battalion of the Puerto Rican regiment under US control. The couple embarked on a five-year worldwide tour in July 1902, finally settling in Washington, DC. Gardener served as the National American Women Suffrage Association's vice president (1917) and its chief liaison to the Wilson Administration during the passage of the nineteenth amendment. President Wilson then appointed her to the US Civil Service Commission, the highest federal position held by a woman at the time.
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
Donated to the United States National Museum by Helen Hamilton Gardener's niece Helen Gardener Crane in 1926 (accession 90351).
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 98, Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional photographs collected by Gardener are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Artifacts collected by Gardener are held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 90351 and 89779.
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Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection, circa 1900-1910
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 98
, USNM ACC 90351
Other Finding Aids note
Other Finding Aids note
Caption list for lantern slides is available in repository.
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
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