Photographs of Smithsonian Institution exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition
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Smithsonian Institution
- Dates:
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1901
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1 Print (halftone)
9 Mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.87-2L
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs depicting National Museum anthropological exhibit cases at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in 1901. Exhibits include those on Native American weaving, picture-writing, pottery, bow and arrows, narcotic utensils, and firemaking devices, as well as dioramas of Tehuelche Tohono O'Odham dwelling groups. The photographs' mo...
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
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undated
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2 Prints (etching or engraving)
13 Prints (albumen)
230 Copy prints (circa)
1 Chromolithograph
179 Cyanotypes
200 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.87-2M
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs mostly commissioned and collected by personnel in the Bureau of American Ethnology. Most of the photographs are studio portraits of Native Americans made by the Bureau of American Ethnology and Smithsonian Institution, possibly for physical anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka. There are also photographs made by Truman Michelson among the Cataw...
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Andrews, R. R.
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circa 1893
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1 Mounted print (albumen)
4 Printed pages (Pamphlet :)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.87-26
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of a photograph by R. R. Andrewss of a skull with filed teeth and an article on the skull entitled "Prehistoric Crania from Central America."
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Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
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circa 1887-1907
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2 Mounted prints (albumen)
2 Mounted prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-40
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs depicting physical anthropology specimens. The images include a profile of the Lansing skull near a long bone, front and profile views of a skull, an Aztec mummy, and a mummified infant and cyst. All of the photographs have been stamped and dated by the Library of Congress Copyright Office.
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Hall, I. T. H. (collector and possible photographer)
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circa 1890
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2 Mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-41
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs probably made in or near Colorado Springs, Colorado. They include an image of a canyon and an image of a horse-drawn carriage driving through the snow in a canyon.
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Stirling, Gene M.
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1930-1932
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56 Prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-55
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of photographs documenting archeological excavations at Powell Farm in Fairmont, Illinois, 1931; Safety Harbor, Florida, 1930; and Canaveral, Florida, 1932. The photographs are mounted on unbound pages from a photograph album and the covers are included with collection.
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Edy, James N.
- Dates:
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1871
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1 Copy print
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-58
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of a copy of a studio portrait of Onondaga, Mohawk, and Seneca Chiefs with wampum belts, made on September 14, 1871, for Horatio Hale. Includes Joseph Snow (Hahriron), Onondaga Chief; George H. M. Johnson (Deyonhehgon), Mohawk chief, government interpreter and son of John Smoke Johnson; John Buck (Skanawatih), Onondaga chief...
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1929
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1 Print (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-59
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of a photograph depicting Henry Bascom Collins removing loose surface dirt at an excavation site at Cape Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
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Hill, Richard W., Sr.
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circa 1972-1978
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25 Prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.83-35
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Informal photographic portraits depicting Iroquois, Seminole, and other Native American people. Images document the preparation of fry bread, a lacrosse player, a corn-husk doll maker, an Iroquois dancer, a longhouse wedding party, a Seneca wood carver making a water drum, a Seneca basketmaker, and a Seneca flute maker.
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Wilcox, Ellery Vladimir
- Dates:
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circa 1900-1947
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21 Prints (silver gelatin (including contact prints))
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.83-44
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection largely consists of studio portraits of Native Americans probably from the Plains, which were most likely made at Wilcox's studio in Scotland, South Dakota. It also includes images of the tombstones of Yankton Dakota Joseph Selwyn (Medicine Cow, ca. 1821-1898), John Pretty Bull (1851-1924), and Feather in Ear (Wiyakaion, d. 1900).
