MS 4115 Tabulation of artifacts in the United States National Museum recovered from shell heaps in the vicinity of Eggemoggin Reach, Maine, by Frank H. Cushing, ca. 1900
Oversize tables (plus original drafts of same and miscellaneous notes and tracing of the area showing site localities plus prints of artifact types referred to in the tables).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4115
Citation:
Manuscript 4115, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Relates to archeological work in Maine by Powell and Frank Cushing. Also concerns reports in William Culp Darrah's Powell in the Colorado and an anecdote regarding Powell's relations with local workmen.
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, left to right: Matthew W. Stirling, Jessie S. Shaw, Carl F. Miller, Rachel K. Penner. Row 2: Evelyn F. Anderson, Robert L. Stephenson, Robert M. Laughlin, Karlena M. Glemser, Henry B. Collins. Row 3: William C. Sturtevant, Edward G. Schumacher, Harold A. Huscher, Margaret C. Blaker, Florence R. Morgan.
Group portraits of members of the Department of Anthropology and the Bureau of American Ethnology at the time of their merger in 1965. The photographs were made on the steps of the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum building.
Biographical/Historical note:
The Bureau of American Ethnology was disbanded on July 29, 1964 and its members were merged into the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, to form the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology. This later became the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 136
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Bureau of American Ethnology records and the Department of Anthropology records.
Additional photographs of Department of Anthropology staff can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 39, Photo Lot 70, 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.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 136, Portraits of staff of Department of Anthropology and Bureau of American Ethnology, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Corrections to the microfilm: Table 5, page 53: last 3 lines, obscured on film should read: Parallel lines beneath simple chevron (2) (1.5) 7B 3. Parallel lines with long or short obliques superimposed (4) (2.9) 7A 6. Parallel lines with simple chevron superimposed (9) (6.6) 7B 1. Plate 9B follows Plate 10A on the film.
Microfilm negative of manuscript of 123 pages, typed; 3 figures, 19 plates (185 microframes).
Topic:
Townsend site (Delaware) -- Lewes -- Sussex County -- Delaware -- Archeology Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4669, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Albums consist of film negatives (with some prints9 of photographs taken in China, mostly in Shensi Province, 1914 through 1916. Also associated notes and maps. (52 typed pages, 4 Manuscript pages and 5 maps.) The numbers on the negative jackets refer to the numbered areas on the maps and on the photograph list included with the associated notes.
Catalog Number 4847: Associated notes, correspondence and maps: "Notes Regarding Photographs taken in China, Mostly in Shensi Province- in 1914-1916." April 10, 1967. Typescript document. 3 pages, and carbon copy of same, 3 pages. "Photographs by E. L. Estabrook." Typescript and Manuscript document. 50 pages. Letter from E. L. Estabrook to Eugene I. Knez, April 10, 1967, Autograph letter signed, enumerating negatives, notes, etc. to which it accompanied. Letter from Eugene I. Knez to E. L. Estabrook, April 21, 1967, acknowledging receipt of negatives, notes, etc. Typescript carbon copy negative. 1 page. Memo from Jeraldine Whitmore to Katharine J. Holland, April 24, 1967. Autograph letter signed. 1 page. Memo from Katharine J. Holland to M. C. Blaker, June 5, 1968, Autograph letter signed. 1 page. Letter from M. C. Blaker to Eugene I. Knez, August 5, 1968, acknowledging receipt of Estabrook material. Typescript carbon copy letter. 1 page. "Maps showing routes traveled and locations [marked in ink] at which photographs were made by Estabrook May 1914 to Feb. 1916." March 3, 1967. Maps are from Army Map Service, Corp of Engineers, 1 index map, 4 topographic maps.
