Three Roads to Urga [typescript]
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circa 1920s
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1 Item (75 pages of typescript)
79 Items (silver prints, black and white)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1996.02
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A detailed account of uncertain authorship recalling travel to and from Urga (presently known as Ulaanbataar, Mongolia) in Outer Mongolia. The author is perhaps Georg Soderbom; a member of Sven Hedin's expedition who often worked under Frans Larson Soderbom is pictured in many of the collection's silver plates. The account is replete with descripti...
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Witz, Edward Francis
- Dates:
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2002-2004
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9 Color prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2005-26
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs relating to Edward Francis Witz's time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bayankhongor, Mongolia. Witz's photographs depict his host family, the yurt in which he lived, and Witz wearing a del (a traditional Mongolian garment) made by his host mother.
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Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), b. 1886 (photographer and collector)
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1920-1925
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3 Albums
1,000 Items (circa)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.85-3
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs compiled by Frederick K. Morris documenting his travels in China, 1920-1923; Mongolia, 1922-1923; and Japan and Korea, 1923 and 1925. The photographs were made or collected by Frederick and Florence Morris in Shanghai, Yokohama (after an eathquake), Tianjin, Beijing, Zhangjiakou, Kyoto, Nara, Nikko, Seul, and Kaijo, as well as various v...
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1867-1993, undated
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0.58 cu. ft. (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-100
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of miscellaneous photographs, negatives, maps and drawings. The records represent a broad range of subjects and topics such as early 20th century photographs of China taken by Dr. Bailey Willis; a photograph of a portrait painting of Richard Delafield, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1865-1871; exterior photograp...
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Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954
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1904-1954 and undated
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14.05 cu. ft. (20 document boxes) (20 3x5 boxes) (1 5x8 box) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7263
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers document the multi-faceted career of Arthur deC. Sowerby, especially his work as a naturalist and expedition member. They include correspondence, including a large amount with Robert Sterling Clark; fiscal records; material relating to his genealogical research and "The Sowerby Saga;" manuscripts, newspaper articles, and research ...
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Longcope, Janet, ca. 1886-1974
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1954-1971
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600 Mounted prints (circa 600 mounted prints, silver gelatin)
4,000 Color slides (circa)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.75-26
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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, Et...
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National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
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1985, 1988, 1991-1995, 1998-2007
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16.33 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box) (6 oversize drawing boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-068
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting special exhibitions and traveling exhibitions produced or hosted at the National Museum of Natural History. Exhibitions documented in this accession include "Baseball as America;" "America's Wildest Places: Our National Wildlife Refuge System;" "A Place Called Home;" "Dinotopia;" "Emissaries ...
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Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
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1912-1917
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595 Negatives (circa, glass and nitrate)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-26B
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National Anthropological Archives
The bulk of the collection consists of photographs commissioned by Ales Hrdlicka for the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, collected 1912-1914. They include front and profile portraits of Mongols in Urga, Mongolia, as well as Apache, Teton, Hopi, Navajo, Omaha, Osage, and Pueblo people. There are some full-length portraits of Apaches and...
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Ridout, Elizabeth
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undated
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1 Album (Accordion album with 24 albumen prints; 24 postcards)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Items presented to the Archives by collector Elizabeth Candida Ridout (1938-2015). Includes a small Japanese accordion album with brocade covers and 24 hand-tinted albumen photographs, ca. 1880s. One side of the album shows studio constructs and portraits of Japanese women, either alone or in groups posed in daily activities; the other side shows p...
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Riley, Joseph Harvey, 1873-1941
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1903, 1906, 1930s and undated
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7118
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of unpublished studies of birds in some of the collections mentioned above, and notes and lists compiled during Riley's research on the avifauna of the West Indies.
