The collection consists of copy prints depicting Smithsonian anthropologists, including group portraits of the staff of the United States National Museum Department of Anthropology and mounted individual portraits of department heads in 1904, 1931, 1952, 1959, and 1962. The photographs were possibly made as part of a 1969 event, "The Anthropology of Anthropology, or Everything You Wanted to Know About the Anthropology Department but Didn't Know What to Ask." The announcement for this event is available with the collection.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 39
Reproduction Note:
Copy prints made by the Smithsonian Institution, 1969.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Original negatives for some images are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Records of the Department of Anthropology.
Additional photographs of Department of Anthropology staff can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 136, Photo Lot 76-127, Photo Lot 77-52, Photo Lot 77-80, Photo Lot 79-51, Photo Lot 80-17, Photo Lot 83-15, and the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Citation:
Photo lot 39, Copies of portraits of Smithsonian anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Front row, left to right: Eugene I. Knez, Richard B. Woodbury, Willie Mae Pelham, Dolores Cooper, Caroline I. Semple, Gordon D. Gibson, Marcia P. Bakry, Rachel K. Penner. Row 2: Karlena M. Glemser, Jeraldine M. Whitmore, Matthew W. Stirling, Robert L. Stephenson, Henry B. Collins, Bethune Gibson, Eleanor Haley, Florence R. Morgan, Jesse S. Shaw. Row 3: Gus. W. Van Beek, G. Robert Lewis, Anne M. Lewis, Carl F. Miller, Betty J. Meggers (Evans), Chang-Su Swanson, Angela M. Margola, Robert M. Laughlin, Margaret C. Blaker. Row 4: Edgar W. Dodd, A. Joseph Andrews, Harold A. Huscher, Kent Flannery, George S. Metcalf, Robert C. Jenkins, Evelyn F. Anderson, John C. Ewers, William H. Crocker. Row 5: Robert A. Elder, John F. Ball, Nathalie F. Woodbury, Clifford Evans, Saul H. Riesenberg, Edward G. Schumacher, William C. Sturtevant.
Front row: Eugene I. Knez, Richard B. Woodbury, Willie Mae Pelham, Dolores Cooper, Caroline I. Semple, Angela M. Margola, Gordon D. Gibson. Row 2: Edgar W. Dodd, Gus. W. Van Beek, George S. Metcalf, Jeraldine M. Whitmore, G. Robert Lewis, Kent Flannery, William H. Crocker, Nathalie F. Woodbury. Row 3: Robert A. Elder, A. Joseph Andrews, Betty J. Meggers (Evans), Robert C. Jenkins, Clifford Evans, Saul H. Riesenberg.
Photographs largely depicting Andreas Joseph Andrews, a conservator in the Department of Anthropology, working with pottery and other artifacts in his laboratory. There are also images of Dr. Owen Rye and William Potts conducting laboratory tests as part of an Ancient Technology Project study of ceramic firing. The photographs were made in May 1973, probably by a Smithsonian photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
Andreas Joseph Andrews (d. 1992) was a sculptor and creator of plaster casts for the Smithsonian Institution and an artifact restorer for the Department of Anthropology. Dr. Owen S. Rye was an Australian scholar of Pakistani ceramics and pottery who participated in the Pakistani Culture Studies-Foreign Currency Program with Department of Anthropology staff Clifford Evans and Gus Van Beek. William Potts was a graduate student of paleo-archeology during the 1970s; during the 1971 and 1972 seasons, he worked at Tell Jemmeh in Israel as a square supervisor and then as an assistant to Dr. William Melson for his geological study of the surrounding area.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 91-6
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of Andrews can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
Rye's report on the Smithsonian-New South Wales Expedition to Pakistan can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7376.
