Query: Description and Travel
Janet Longcope photographs of world travels
Creators:
Longcope, Janet, ca. 1886-1974
Dates:
1954-1971
Size:
600 Mounted prints (circa 600 mounted prints, silver gelatin)
4,000 Color slides (circa)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.75-26
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Janet Longcope during trips to countries around the world. They depict landscapes, buildings, markets, dances, agriculture, arts and crafts, ceremonies, children, cooking, musicians, and transportation. Locations depicted include Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Easter Island, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Hong Kong …

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Robert and Elizabeth Webb photographs of world travels
Creators:
Webb, Robert Watkins, 1906-1998
Dates:
1938-1996
Size:
53 Slides (53 black and white copy slides)
20 Color slides (circa)
1,500 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (some in photo albums))
1,000 Items (circa 1000 copy color prints (made from slides))
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.98-9
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Robert and Elizabeth Webb in numerous locations across the world, including Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo, Singapore, Thailand, Burma, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and Russia); the Balkans (Czech Republic, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland); Europe (Spain, England, France, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Austria …

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Hamilton Wright Jr. photographs
Creators:
Wright, Hamilton M., Jr.
Dates:
circa 1923-1925, 1950-1970
Size:
4,700 Color slides (circa)
250 Lantern slides (circa)
500 Color transparencies (circa)
7 Color prints (theatrical motion picture one-sheets)
9 Prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.76-35
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Hamilton Wright Jr. in Egypt, South Africa, India, Lebanon, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, Canada, Alaska, Colorado, and New Hampshire. They include images of modern and ancient structures and monuments, artifacts, industries, cities, markets, caves …

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Photographs from a trip to the Middle East and Europe
Dates:
circa 1901-1902
Size:
199 Negatives (nitrate)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.104
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made probably by a tourist during a 1901 tour of Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Germany, and England. The photographs largely document ancient sites, cities, and some people. Additional photographs of Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, may offer clues as to the residence of the …

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Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection
Creators:
Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925 (collector and possible photographer)
Dates:
circa 1900-1910
Size:
300 Negatives (circa, nitrate)
1,160 Lantern slides (circa)
14 Prints (silver gelatin)
15 Copy negatives (glass)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.98
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

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 …

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tours
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1844-1966
Size:
3.68 Cubic feet (consisting of 8 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tours
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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Carl N. Werntz papers
Creators:
Werntz, Carl N. (Carl Newland), 1874-1944
Dates:
1910-1952
Size:
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.werncarl
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Clippings with some photographs and printed materials documenting Werntz's career as an artist and his extensive travels. Clippings contain many travel articles written and illustrated by Werntz and his wife, Millicent. Among other travel-related items are their travel itinerary, an illustrated letter from 1929, reproductions of Werntz's travel sketches, and photographs …

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Russell Hamilton Postcard and Photograph Collection
Creators:
Hamilton, Russell, d. 1911
Dates:
circa 1895-1909
Size:
193 Items (postcards and photographs, black and white and color)
Collection ID:
FSA.A2001.13
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Assembled by English petty officer Russell Hamilton (d. 1911) during his voyages made prior to 1909, likely for the British Merchant Marines, documenting images of China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. The items date from between the late 1890's and 1909.The 183 photographic …

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Oral history interview with Glen Kaufman
Creators:
Kaufman, Glen
Shea, Josephine, 1958-
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
Dates:
2008 January 22-February 23
Size:
12 Items (Sound recording: 12 sound files (5 hr., 29 min.))
86 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.kaufma08
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Glen Kaufman conducted 2008 January 22 and February 23 by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America at Kaufman's home in Athens, Georgia.

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Oral history interview with Raquel Rabinovich
Creators:
Rabinovich, Raquel, 1929-
McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
Dates:
2012 September 25 and October 9
Size:
4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (3 hr., 6 min.), digital, wav)
64 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.rabino12
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Raquel Rabinovich conducted 2012 September 25 and October 9, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Rabinovich's home, in Rhinebeck, New York.

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