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Creator:

Ferraro, Katherine  Search this

Names:

Spotted Elk  Search this

Extent:

.4 Linear feet

2 Photographic prints

Culture:

Hunkpapa Lakota [Cheyenne River]  Search this

Hunkpapa Lakota [Standing Rock]  Search this

Minneconjou Lakota [Cheyenne River]  Search this

Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)  Search this

Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Date:

1989-1991

Summary:

This collection primarily includes newspaper clippings and pamphlets about the Chief Bigfoot Memorial Ride (Si Tanka Wokisuye) in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains pamphlets and newspapers published by the ride organizers, clippings about the Big Foot Memorial Ride and related events, and clippings related to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Also included are audio transcripts, video logs, and media releases taken during the ride. The corresponding film and audio were unsalvageable. Materials were collected by Kate Ferraro while serving as a media coordinator for the Bigfoot Riders.

Please note, some of the articles include photos of deceased individuals which may be upsetting.

Arrangement:

Series 1: Clippings Subseries 1.1 Si Tanka Wokiksuye Subseries 1.2 About the ride Subseries 1.3 About the Wounded Knee Massacre

Series 2: Media Transcripts Subseries 2.1: Audio Transcripts Subseries 2.2: Video Logs

Series 3: Additional Materials Subseries 3.1 Media Releases Subseries 3.2 Commemorative Calendar Subseries 3.3 Photographs

Si Tanka Wokisuye:

Si Tanka Wokisuye, also known as the Chief Big Foot Memorial Ride, was started by Birgil Kills Straight, Alex White Plume, and Jim Garrett to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre. For five years, starting in 1986, a group of riders carrying a sacred hoop followed the original route taken by the Lakota people when fleeing from government sanctioned violence starting at Sitting Bull's camp at Standing Rock, then to Chief Bigfoot's camp on the Cheyenne River Reservation, and on to Wounded Knee. The group of riders grew from 19 the first year to over 350 the fifth year

The ride was undertaken as a spiritual experience. The sacred hoop of the Lakota people was broken by the Wounded Knee massacre and the ride was meant to mend it 100 years later, leading to the ride's slogan "Rebuilding the Nation in the Seventh Generation." Each day of the ride was dedicated to a different prayer including the earth, those who are sick or imprisoned, women, children, elders, victims of the massacre, and the next seven generations. In 1990, at the end of the ride a traditional Lakota ceremony known as "the wiping of the tears" was held at the mass grave site to end the mourning period.

Wounded Knee Massacre:

In the 1800's, Lakota communities were worried for their way of life as they were forced onto reservations and faced violence from the U.S. government. After the death of Sitting Bull, Miniconjou Lakota Chief Big Foot (also known as Si Tanka or Spotted Elk) and his people left the Cheyenne River reservation intending to join those at the Pine Ridge reservation in hopes of finding a peaceful resolution with the colonists and preserve Lakota traditions. On December 29, 1890, the U.S. 7th Cavalry led by Colonel James W. Forsyth surrounded the encampment near Wounded Knee Creek, planning to disarm and arrest them. One man, Black Coyote, refused to give up his rifle. He was deaf and didn't understand the orders being shouted at him. Soldiers grabbed him from behind and the gun accidentally went off. The army responded by opening fire on the unarmed Lakota. The soldiers followed and killed anyone who tried to escape, leaving more than 250 Lakota men, women, and children dead. The deceased were placed in a mass grave overlooking the encampment. 19 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for their roles in the massacre.

Provenance:

Gift of Kate Ferraro, 2019.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Topic:

Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890  Search this

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Chief Bigfoot Memorial Ride, image #, NMAI.AC.409; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.409

See more items in:

Chief Big Foot Memorial Ride

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4262d4095-be8c-4edc-88c8-d8d7055593bd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-409

Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Names:

New York Flower Show  Search this

Extent:

37000 Slides (photographs) (35mm slides)

33 Linear feet ((garden files))

3,000 Lantern slides

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Lantern slides

Plans (drawings)

Brochures

Articles

Correspondence

Clippings

Date:

circa 1920-present

Summary:

This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland.

A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.

Biographical/Historical note:

The Garden Club of America was established in 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the Garden Club of Philadelphia and eleven other garden clubs met to create a national garden club. Its purpose is to foster the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and gardening and conservation efforts. The GCA was incorporated in Delaware in 1923, with its headquarters established in New York City. Today, local clubs are organized under twelve regional zones. The GCA continues its tradition of hosting flower shows and publishing material related to gardening in the United States.

The GCA's glass lantern slides were used by The GCA for presentations and lectures about notable gardens throughout the United States dating back to colonial times. An effort was made in the late 1980s, in preparation of the 75th anniversary of the Garden Club of America's founding, to collect the disbursed slides. These slides were to eventually form the Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens. The informational value of this collection is extensive since a number of images of the more than 4,500 gardens represented show garden designs that have changed over time or no longer exist. While the majority of images document a range of designed upper and upper-middle class gardens throughout the U.S., the scope of the collection is expanding as volunteers photograph and document contemporary gardens including community and vernacular gardens.

The gardens illustrate the design work of dozens of landscape architects including Marian Coffin, Beatrix Farrand, Lawrence Halprin, Hare & Hare, Umberto Innocenti, Gertrude Jekyll, Jens Jensen, Warren Manning, the Olmsted Brothers, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele. Because of their proximity to the gardens, works of notable architects and sculptors may also be featured in the images.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- France  Search this

Gardens -- Italy  Search this

Gardens -- Japan  Search this

Gardens -- Mexico  Search this

Flower shows  Search this

Gardening -- United States -- societies, etc  Search this

Gardens -- England  Search this

Landscape architecture  Search this

Gardens -- United States  Search this

Gardens -- Spain  Search this

Gardens -- Scotland  Search this

Genre/Form:

Plans (drawings)

Brochures

Articles

Correspondence

Clippings

Lantern slides

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb617385372-1028-4cb7-b07d-04fea2e51c47

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-gca

Creator:

Adams, Molly, 1918-2003  Search this

Landscape architect:

Ireys, Alice Recknagel, 1911-2000  Search this

Stege, Friede, 1896-1990  Search this

Weber, Nelva M.  Search this

Extent:

Photographic prints (color, 4 x 6 inches)

Photographic prints (black and white, 3 1/2 x 5 inches)

Photographic prints (black and white, 8 x 10 inches)

Contact sheets (black and white)

35mm slides (photographs) (color, 2 x 2 inches)

Negatives, 35mm negatives (color)

Negatives (black & white, 4 x 5 inches)

Negatives, 120mm negatives (black and white, 2 x 2 inches)

Film transparency (color, 4 x 5 inches)

Transparencies, 120mm transparencies (color, 2 x 2 inches)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Film transparencies

Color negatives

Black-and-white photographs

Photographs

Color photographs

Negatives

Slides (photographs)

Contact sheets

Black-and-white negatives

Date:

circa 1960-1994

Summary:

The Maida Babson Adams American Garden Collection documents the work of Molly Adams, a free-lance garden photographer who photographed hundreds of private and public gardens, many of them in the mid-Atlantic region, from the late 1950s through the mid-1990s. It includes slides, photographic prints, negatives and transparencies. A significant number of images document the work of landscape designers Nelva M. Weber, Alice Recknagel Ireys, and Friede Stege. Roughly 50 gardens do not have an identified location. Some images have captions and other information written on them.

Scope and Contents:

The Maida Babson Adams American Gardens Collection includes a total of 7,606 images documenting close to 400 gardens photographed by Molly Adams from the 1950s to the 1990s. Although most images document gardens in New Jersey, the collection also includes gardens in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. While the vast majority of gardens in the collection are private, there are also some public gardens and venues like the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in New Jersey, the International Flower Show in New York City, and the White House in Washington, D.C. A number of gardens were photographed during organized garden or horticultural tours or annual meetings of the Garden Club of America. A significant number of images document the work of landscape designers Alice Ireys, Nelva Weber, and Friede Stege. Approximately 85 gardens in the collection are unidentified as to their location and/or client. Relatively few images are captioned or dated; Adams often labeled a film envelope or back of a photograph or contact sheet with just a client surname and the designer (if it was Ireys, Weber, or Stege). In some cases, additional information about a garden's location or owner's full name was gleaned from the finding aids for the Alice Recknagel Ireys Papers or the Nelva Weber Papers. Some images were accompanied by clippings from newspapers or magazines that featured one or more related images by Adams; most of these clippings date from the 1950s and 1960s. There is also a file of general clippings of Adams' work; many of these do not identify the garden that is shown.

Most of the images are black and white, though there are a number taken in color. Adams' contact sheets and photo envelopes were sometimes marked with cropping marks or photo developing notes respectively.

Biographical / Historical:

Molly (Maida Babson) Adams (1918 - 2003) had a 40+ year career as a nationally recognized free-lance garden and wildlife photographer and conservationist. Her images were published under the name "Molly Adams." Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey and lived over fifty years in Mendham Township, New Jersey. As a teenager she became interested in photography; she later attended the New York Institute of Photography and became a member of the New York Camera Club.

Her photographs were featured in numerous newspapers and magazines including the "New York Times," "New York Herald Tribune," "House Beautiful," "Horticulture," "Home Garden," and "Audubon." During the Kennedy administration, she photographed the White House Rose Garden; these photographs were later published in "Flower Grower."

Adams provided hundreds of photographs for "How to Plan and Plant Your Own Property" (1967) by landscape architect Alice Recknagel Ireys and "How to Plan Your Own Home Landscape" (1976) by landscape designer Nelva M. Weber. Her images were also published in books including "The Reader's Digest Practical Guide to Home Landscaping," and "The Complete Illustrated Book of Garden Magic." Adams also occasionally wrote garden-themed articles. A longtime member in the Somerset Hills (NJ) Garden Club, which is part of the Garden Club of America, Adams once served as the latter's official photographer.

In the 1960's Adams' photographs drew attention to conservation issues related to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern New Jersey. These widely publicized photographs rallied public support against the proposed destruction of the Great Swamp for the construction of an airport. Adams was also active as a member of the Mendham Township Environmental Commission and the North Jersey Conservation Foundation. In the 1980's she was awarded the Buckley Medal of Merit for Horticultural Achievement by the Garden Club of America for her photographs used in the postcard campaign "Save Our Vanishing Wild Flowers."

Related Archival Materials Note:

The Alice Recknagel Ireys Papers in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, include photographs by Molly Adams.

The Nelva Weber Papers in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library in Ithaca, New York, likely include photographs by Molly Adams.

Separated Materials:

The North Jersey History & Genealogy Center at The Morristown & Morris Township Library in New Jersey has a collection of images by Molly Adams showcasing nature scenes and birds.

Provenance:

Adams' family donated her collection of garden images to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Gardens after her death in 2003.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Gardens -- United States  Search this

Gardens -- Connecticut  Search this

Gardens -- Massachusetts  Search this

Gardens -- New Jersey  Search this

Gardens -- New York (State)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

Film transparencies

Color negatives

Black-and-white photographs

Photographs

Color photographs

Negatives

Slides (photographs)

Contact sheets

Black-and-white negatives

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.

Identifier:

AAG.ADM

See more items in:

Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb64551e192-9900-4d6c-9a87-0322776b8d93

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-adm

Creator:

Ryan, Frank J.  Search this

Extent:

16 Cubic feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Brochures

Books

Motion pictures (visual works)

Advertisements

Scrapbooks

Patents

Date:

1936-1982

Scope and Contents:

Archival materials relating to Ryan's career as an athlete, a sports coach at Yale, an inventor, and an author. Includes photographs, the patent for Ryan's electro-mechanical football game, scrapbooks of newsclippings, Ryan's instructional books on sports, brochures, reprints of articles and other printed materials relating to Ryan's instructional films. Also included are instructional sports films Ryan created and marketed.

Arrangement:

Divided into 2 series: Series 1: Papers, photographs and printed materials; Series 2: Audiovisual materials.

Biographical / Historical:

Coach at Yale University, creator of sports training films and author of sports training books. He developed a unique bank/school community relations program wherein banks would donate Ryan's sports training films to local schools in exchange for publicity.

Provenance:

Donated to the Archives Center in 2004 by Neil Ryan (Frank Ryan's son) and Fran Ryan.

Restrictions:

Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Coaches (Athletics)  Search this

Coaching (Athletics)  Search this

Physical education and training  Search this

Athletics  Search this

Sports -- 20th century  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 20th century

Brochures

Books

Motion pictures (visual works) -- 20th century

Advertisements -- 20th century

Scrapbooks

Patents

Citation:

Frank J. Ryan Sports Training Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0871

See more items in:

Frank J. Ryan Sports Training Collection

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8820c15a2-732f-4d65-a29d-fd5cba5953a4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0871

Creator:

Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966  Search this

Sears & Wendell  Search this

Olmsted Brothers  Search this

Harvard University  Search this

American Society of Landscape Architects  Search this

Donor:

Tibbetts, Eleanor Sears  Search this

Extent:

44.5 Cubic feet (4,317 glass negatives. 363 film negatives. 182 glass lantern slides. 12 photograph albums. 56 plans and drawings. 3 monographs. )

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Blueprints

Albums

Plans (drawings)

Lantern slides

Date:

1899-1964

Summary:

The Thomas Warren Sears Photograph Collection documents examples of the design work of Thomas Warren Sears (1880-1966), a landscape architect and amateur photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. Sears, who was based for most of his career in Philadelphia, designed a variety of different types of landscapes ranging from private residences, schools, and playgrounds to parks, cemeteries, and urban housing developments located primarily in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York. In addition to some of Sears' design work, images in the collection document Sears' domestic and foreign travels, design inspirations, and family. The collection includes over 4,800 black and white negatives and glass lantern slides dated circa 1899 to 1930. While most images show private and public gardens, there are a significant number of unidentified views and views photographed in Europe during two trips he took there in 1906 and 1908. Few images are captioned or dated. In addition, there are over 50 plans and drawings, most notably for Balmuckety in Pikesville, Maryland and Reynolda in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and 3 monographs by or about Sears.

Scope and Contents note:

The Thomas Warren Sears Photograph Collection documents examples of the design work of Thomas Warren Sears (1880-1966), a landscape architect and amateur photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. Sears, who was based for most of his career in Philadelphia, designed a variety of different types of landscapes ranging from private residences, schools, and playgrounds to parks, cemeteries, and urban housing developments located primarily in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York. In addition to some of Sears' design work, images in the collection document Sears' domestic and foreign travels, design inspirations, and family. The collection includes over 4,800 black and white negatives and glass lantern slides dated circa 1899 to 1930. While most images show private and public gardens, there are a significant number of unidentified views and views photographed in Europe during two trips he took there in 1906 and 1908. Few images are captioned or dated. In addition, there are over 50 plans and drawings, most notably for Balmuckety in Pikesville, Maryland and Reynolda in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and monographs by or about Sears. Several of the glass lantern slides are duplicates of glass plate negatives in the collection. They apparently were chosen by Sears to illustrate some of his best design work, perhaps for lecture or client purposes.

In addition, there are 56 plans and drawings, most notably for Balmuckety in Pikesville, Maryland and Reynolda in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They range in date from 1917 to 1937 and from 1955 to 1964. Sears photographed some of his early plans; they are included in with the photographic images. Sears also photographed a handful of design plans by landscape architect Sibley Coslett Smith who practiced in Providence, Rhode Island; Sears and Smith shared the same business address there.

The Thomas Warren Sears Collection does not fully document the extent of Sears' design work. The use of glass plate negatives—which make up the bulk of the Thomas Warren Sears Collection—as a photography medium waned sometime during the first quarter of the twentieth century. As a result, the images in the Sears Collection capture examples of Sears' early to mid-career design work but they do not include jobs designed by Sears during the latter half of his design career.

Arrangement note:

The glass plate negatives were originally housed in numerous cardboard boxes manufactured for the sale of undeveloped glass plate negatives. Sears annotated the outside of the boxes with project or client names and/or locations, but the contents do not always match these labels. In addition, because very few of the glass plate negatives and lantern slides were labeled or captioned, it is not always evident where one job ended and another began if multiple projects were stored in the same carton. As a result, there are many instances in the Sears Collection where images have been inadvertently mislabeled because their identification is not apparent. Misidentified images are subject to correction as their proper identification is discovered. Each project has been assigned its own unique AAG job number based on its geographic origin. Those groups of images that have not been identified as to their location have been assigned a project number starting with 'SRS.' The collection is arranged into 3 series: 1) Photographic images (including glass plate negatives, film negatives, glass lantern slides, and photograph albums) 2) Plans and Drawings 3) Monographs

Biographical/Historical note:

Thomas Warren Sears was born in 1880 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1903 and Bachelor of Science degree in landscape architecture from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard in 1906. Sears was an amateur photographer who won awards for his photography while at Harvard. In 1915 his images were published in the monograph, Parish Churches of England. After graduation he worked for the firm of Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects for two years and then briefly practiced in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1913, Sears established a landscape design office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he spent the remainder of his professional career. Sears at one point was in a professional partnership; some of his design plans list the firm name of Sears and Wendell. He was made a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1921.

Sears designed many different types of landscapes ranging from private residences, schools, and playgrounds to parks, cemeteries, and urban housing developments. His designs were primarily located in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York. Just a few of his private landscapes include Marengo in Easton, Maryland; Sunnybrook, the Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. estate in Radnor, Pennsylvania; and Balmuckety in Pikesville, Maryland. In 1915, Sears started work on Reynolda, a country estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He generated design plans for the property intermittently over the next two decades. Reynolda's formal gardens, greenhouses, and acres of fields and woodlands subsequently became part of Wake Forest University.

During World War I, Sears designed Army camps in Battle Creek, Michigan and Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also helped lay out Langley Field, at that time an experimental aviation field in Hampton Roads, Virginia. In the 1940s, Sears designed the amphitheater at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania for concerts, outdoor performances, and other special events. During that decade he also worked on Colonial Revival gardens at Pennsbury, William Penn's country estate in Bucks County, Pennsylvania located by the Delaware River. Sears retired in 1964 and died in 1966.

Related Archival Materials note:

The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project (PAB), administered by The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, includes references to design projects by Sears.

Harvard University's Loeb Library includes a number of images by Sears, some of them documenting gardens that he designed.

Harvard University's Fine Arts Library, Special Collections includes a collection of photographs and negatives of English parish churches by Sears, c. 1908. Some of the images were published in the monograph, Parish Churches of England.

The Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina includes plans by Sears of Reynolda in its Estate Archives.

Provenance:

Gift of Eleanor Sears Tibbetts, Sears' daughter, to the Horticulture Services Division (later Smithsonian Gardens) in 1992.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Photographers  Search this

Landscape architects  Search this

Gardens -- United States  Search this

Gardens -- Switzerland  Search this

Gardens -- Scotland  Search this

Gardens -- Italy  Search this

Gardens -- Germany  Search this

Gardens -- France  Search this

Gardens -- England  Search this

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Blueprints

Albums

Plans (drawings)

Lantern slides

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection.

Identifier:

AAG.SRS

See more items in:

Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb68e184341-59d2-4612-8886-4cc747c92bfe

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-srs

Writer of accompanying material:

Beck, Larry, 1938-1994  Search this

Extent:

3.9 Linear feet

1,405 Photographic prints

3873 Slides (photographs)

2617 Negatives (photographic)

314 Transparencies

35 Contact prints

Culture:

Yupik Eskimos  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Slides (photographs)

Negatives (photographic)

Transparencies

Contact prints

Photographs

Sketches

Notes

Portfolios (groups of works)

Correspondence

Newsletters

Negatives

Pamphlets

Drawings

Date:

1938-1995

Summary:

The Lawrence 'Larry' James Beck papers, located in the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, contain biographical materials, sculpture portfolios, art shows, notes, sketches and drawings, publications, correspondence and visual material including photos, slides and negatives of Larry's art.

Scope and Contents:

The Larry Beck papers contains materials that span his career as an artist. The bulk of the material in this collection dates from the late 1960's until his death in 1994 and includes, but is not limited to, biographical materials, sculpture portfolios, correspondence relating to his artwork and his family, sketches and drawings as well as visual materials of Beck's artwork which including prints, slides and negatives. Additionally, publications regarding subjects that interested Beck are also included in this collection.

Arrangement:

The Lawrence 'Larry' James Beck Papers are arranged into seven series:

Series 1: Biographical and Personal, (undated, 1938-1994)

Series 2: Correspondence, (undated, 1966-1994)

Series 3: Sculptures and Shows, (undated, 1966-1994)

Series 4: Sketches, Drawings, Notes and Ideas, (undated)

Series 5: Publications and Graphic Materials (undated, 1966-1995)

Series 6: Miscellaneous Material, (undated)

Series 7: Visual Material, contains photographs, negatives and slides

Biographical / Historical:

Lawrence 'Larry' James Beck was born in Seattle, Washington on May 20, 1938. Beck's father was American and his mother was Norwegian and Yup'ik from Alaska. Larry was raised in Seattle and in 1956 graduated from Ballard High School. He then attended college at the University of Washington from1957 to 1959, where he first studied engineering. However, he decided that art was more in his future so between 1960-1961 he attended the Burnley School of Professional Art in Seattle, now known as The Art Institute of Seattle. In 1962 Larry was given the opportunity to attend the University of Arizona's Guadalajara Summer School and study art abroad. Upon his return in 1962, he resumed his studies at The University of Washington and in 1964 he earned a B.A. in painting and a M.F.A. in 1965. While at UW, Larry was taught by George Tsutakawa and Everett Du Pen and visiting New York artist Gabriel Kohn. His art reflects the influences of sculptor David Smith, Mark di Suvero and Inuit artist Gariel Kohn.

During the 1966-1967 academic year, Larry was a visiting instructor of sculpture at the University of Oregon, in Eugene. During this time Larry participated in an exhibit called the Great Northwest Sausage Company Art show. This show included artists such as Morris Yarowsky, Dan Solomon, Gertrude (Trudie) Pacific-Beck, David Cotter, John Haugse and Marcella Rawlinson. The years between 1967-1968 were spent at the University of Southampton, England as a Fine Arts Fellow. His wife at the time, Trudie also accompanied him and also studied art while in England. When Larry and Trudie returned to the States, they settled in Skagit Valley Washington.

During the late 1960s and 1970s, Larry focused on his large scale, abstract sculptures and established his reputation as a sculpture. Larry's early works were comprised of found metals and objects assembled in a lyrical but humorous manner. Larry also was apart of the Shazam Society with Tom Robbins among others, which produced performances and happenings. During 1975-1980, he installed projects for Golden Gardens Park in Seattle, Highline Community College and Boeing (King County Airport). He also worked on a piece for the Occidental Park site in Seattle, but due to circumstances of the city it was never installed.

Although Larry was not raised around his ancestral homelands, like his Mother, in the mid 1970s Larry visited the Alaskan coast. It was then that he realized he understood the Yup'ik culture. In 1973 Larry started to produce a new series of pieces called "Inukshuk", which is Inuit for sculpture presence. This term was also used for three major commissions that later followed. Larry continued to use Inuit terminology in his work. This was the first sign that Larry started to embrace his multicultural heritage in his artwork. Larry experimented with making bronze and aluminum small castings of traditional Inuit masks, but he felt uneasy that these masks represented a complete contradiction to his western art training.

After the 1980 install of the Boeing sculpture, Beck experienced what he would call his sculpture career crisis. He became disappointed with public art. This is when Larry received his calling to start working on his abstract Inuit Inua (spirit) masks. Larry embraced the idea of using the ancestral ways of his Mother's people of finding natural objects and turning them into masks or art pieces. Larry utilized this method and found contemporary objects within junkyards and hardware stores to create his contemporary Inua masks. From this time on, Larry focused the remaining years of his life working on Inua masks. He participated in shows at art galleries and loaned artwork out for traveling exhibits that where exhibited from the United Nations in Switzerland to all over the United States, including his ancestral homelands of Alaska. Also from the mid 1980s till the end of his life in 1994, he spent more time with his children.

On March 27th 1994, Larry died of a heart attack in his home in Washington. His artwork still lives on today in many museums and private collections. He turned Native American Art into something that kept historical cultural ties while also embracing a contemporary look.

Provenance:

These research materials were donated to NMAI in March 2009 by Nikolai Beck and Alex Beck.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Copyright is vested with Nikolai Beck and Alex Beck and will not transfer to the National Museum of the American Indian until 2018. Researchers seeking publication use, must obtain permission directly from the donors by contacting NMAI Archives (nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Topic:

Sculptors -- Washington (State)  Search this

Public sculpture, American  Search this

Inuit masks  Search this

Indian art -- North America  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketches

Notes

Portfolios (groups of works)

Correspondence

Newsletters

Negatives

Pamphlets

Drawings

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Lawrence 'Larry' James Beck Papers, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.017

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Lawrence 'Larry' James Beck papers

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv44bd6f2ef-4205-4792-b746-aa65a7e2fa40

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-017

Author:

Hazan, Marcella (1924-04-15-2013-09-29)  Search this

Names:

Child, Julia, 1912-2004  Search this

Donor:

Hazan, Giuliano, 1958-  Search this

Hazan, Victor  Search this

Extent:

.75 Cubic feet (3 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Correspondence

Notebooks

Recipes

Date:

circa 1970s-1990s

Summary:

Collection consists of 26 handwritten recipe notebooks of Marcella Hazan, chef and author of Italian cooking.

Content Description:

Collection consists of 26 handwritten recipe notebooks of Marcella Hazan, chef and author of Italian cooking. Also includes one letter to Marcella Hazan from Julia Child, July 31, 1973. The recipe notebooks are in Italian.

Biographical:

Marcella Hazan (née Polini), was a tremendously influential cookbook author and culinary educator of regional Italian cooking traditions in the United States and United Kingdom. She is widely known for her six cookbooks on the cuisines of Italy, published between 1973 and 2004, which introduced American and British cooks to a wide range of ingredients, culinary techniques, and regional recipes at a time when Italian food for many in the U.S. leaned toward canned spaghetti and frozen pizza. What Julia Child did for French cooking in the United States, Marcella Hazan did for Italian cooking. Nevertheless, Hazan's name and legacy are lesser known by many Americans. Her story is deserving of preservation and integration into broad histories of culture, cuisine, education, women entrepreneurs, immigration, disability, and consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

Marcella's life in food was shaped by the fresh ingredients and simplified, efficient approaches to cooking and eating typical in the fishing village of Cesenatico, Italy, where she was born in 1924 and spent her early years. An accident at age 7 when her family was visiting Alexandria, Egypt, left her with limited use of her right arm for the rest of her life, a fact that would influence the design and use of her kitchens, but not her impact in the culinary world. During World War II, her family retreated to an inland farmhouse to escape the German occupation. They survived despite Facist takeovers of neighboring villages. Their return to Cesenatico in 1945 was also a return to the familiar foodscape of the sea and garden plants that had also survived the war. Marcella earned two doctorates in the sciences and became an elementary school teacher. She met Victor Hazan, who had left Italy with his family, Sephardic Jews, in 1939, ahead of the occupation. They moved to New York and established businesses there.

After marrying in 1955, Victor and Marcella returned to New York where Marcella struggled with learning English and finding appropriate ingredients to prepare meals from her Italian homeland. She enrolled in a Chinese cooking class and when the instructor abruptly left for China, the other students convinced Marcella to teach them Italian cooking. She opened a small cooking school in her home apartment in 1969 and attracted the praise and attention of New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne in the 1970s. Hazan published her first cookbook, The Classic Italian Cookbook, in 1973. From this surprising beginning, Marcella became a much-sought-after cooking teacher and cookbook author, active in the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy.

Hazan's cookbooks introduced American and British readers to the structure of the traditional Italian meal and to ingredients, dishes, and techniques largely unknown outside of Italy, such as balsamic vinegar, pesto, and the procedures for making fresh pasta. Unlike other chefs and authors of her day, Hazan rejected many high-tech shortcuts for chopping and mixing, insisting on manual techniques and stovetop cooking that demanded the cook's constant attention. In 1998, Marcella and Victor moved from Italy to Longboat Key, Florida, due to Marcella's declining health. She designed the kitchen in their Florida condominium to suit her cooking practices and tastes and continued to cook and write from her Florida home. Hazan died in Longboat Key, Florida, in 2013. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the International Association of Culinary Professionals Lifetime Achievement Award (2004); Cavaliere della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana Award (2003); James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); and others.

Victor and Marcella had one son, Giuliano Hazan (b.1958). Marcella Hazan died on September 29, 2013.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Victor Hazan and Giuliano Hazan, December 6, 2023.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Cooking  Search this

Cooking, Italian  Search this

Food  Search this

Genre/Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century

Notebooks

Recipes

Citation:

Marcella Hazan Recipe Notebooks, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1604

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8c993ed03-67fd-4ee1-b4b1-2ef37d836895

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1604

Creator:

Young, Joseph , 1956-2024  Search this

Extent:

160 Photographic prints (12 x 8 inches and 11 x 14 inches.)

160 Digital files (6.04 GB)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Digital files

Place:

Washington (D.C.) -- District of Columbia -- United States

Barry Farms (Washington, D.C.)

Date:

circa 2000s-2016

Scope and Contents:

Joseph Young photographs date from the early 2000s to 2016 and measure 0.58 linear feet. Mr. Young's images capture the changing neighborhoods of Washington, DC. and represent meaningful documentation of the impact of gentrification from the perspective of a longtime DC resident. The collection includes photographic prints and their corresponding digital file; as well as newspapers and magazines featuring Young's photographs.

Joseph Young photographs date from the early 2000s to 2016 and measure 0.58 linear feet. Mr. Young's images capture the changing neighborhoods of Washington, DC. and represent meaningful documentation of the impact of gentrification from the perspective of a longtime DC resident. The collection includes photographic prints and their corresponding digital file; as well as newspapers and magazines featuring Young's photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1956 Joseph Young's interest in photography started in the 1970s. He earned a BA in art from the University of the District of Columbia with a focus on photography, as well as a BA in English. While working as a reporter for the Washington Informer in 2006, Young's photograph hobby evolved into a passion for documenting the neighborhood changes he noticed around him. His images have appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Washington Times, Washington Afro Newspaper, and Washington Informer. Mr. Young was also a grantee of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for his photography series about the homeless in the nation's capital. His photography has been included in a group show at the Gallery O on H in Washington, DC, Gallery 42 at the University of the District of Columbia, and the Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater at American University.

Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.

Rights:

Joseph Young photographs are the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.

Topic:

Gentrification  Search this

Urban renewal  Search this

Neighborhoods -- Washington, D.C. -- History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

Citation:

Joseph Young Photograph Collection, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Joseph Young.

Identifier:

ACMA.06-128

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7dfb117b3-0f49-4122-87aa-3fd957f161f8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-acma-06-128

Creator:

Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Names:

ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project  Search this

Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum  Search this

Extent:

110 Sound cassettes

1.25 Linear feet (3 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Oral history

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Date:

1991-1992

bulk 1992

Scope and Contents note:

In 1992, The Anacostia Cmmunity Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary. In the year leading up to that event, oral history interviews with individuals engaged in the community and museum activities were gathered to document the workings of the Museum and help prepare for the 25th anniversary exhibition. All interviews were recorded on audiocassettes, which are currently stored at ACMA.

Related Archival Materials note:

The Anacostia Community Museum Archives also houses other oral histories of the area, including the Anacostia Oral History Project.

Provenance:

Materials were created as part of the Museum's 25th Anniversary exhibition and celebration.

Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

Genre/Form:

Oral history

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

ACMA.09-034

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ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7777eae49-5ec9-4aa1-a690-87632cb9e3ff

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-acma-09-034

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Smithsonian Music (Website)  Search this

Smithsonian Music Notations (Blog)  Search this

Type:

Web sites

Collection descriptions

Electronic records

Date:

2017

2017-2020

Topic:

Web sites  Search this

Blogs  Search this

Music  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Smithsonian Year of Music, 2019  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-033

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404679

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (Website)  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2020

Topic:

Web sites  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Museum archives  Search this

Museums--Collection management  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-034

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404680

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Because of Her Story (Web site)  Search this

Subject:

Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Place:

United States

Date:

2020

Topic:

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Web sites  Search this

Special events  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Women--History  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-037

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Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404682

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Smithsonian Insider  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2009

2009-2019

Topic:

Web sites  Search this

Blogs  Search this

Museums--Educational aspects  Search this

Research  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-038

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404683

Creator:

Smthsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Haiti Cultural Recovery Project (Website)  Search this

Subject:

Smithsonian Institution Haiti Cultural Recovery Project  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Office of the Under Secretary for Museums, Education, and Research/Provost  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Place:

Haiti

Date:

2020

Topic:

Web sites  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Museums--Collection management  Search this

Earthquake relief  Search this

Conservation and restoration  Search this

Earthquakes  Search this

Cultural property--Protection  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-040

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404684

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Subject:

Smithsonian Institution Office of Protection Services  Search this

National Conference on Cultural Property Protection  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2020

Topic:

Congresses and conventions  Search this

Special events  Search this

Cultural property--Protection  Search this

Web sites  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-039

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404685

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

PRISM (Intranet)  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2020

Topic:

Web sites  Search this

Intranets (Computer networks)  Search this

Museums--Administration  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-048

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Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404699

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Subject:

German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2019

Topic:

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Web sites  Search this

Cultural property  Search this

Museums--Collection management  Search this

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Art--Provenance  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-049

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404700

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Smithsonian Second Opinion (Website)  Search this

Subject:

Skorton, David J  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2019

Topic:

Web sites  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Museums--Educational aspects  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-050

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404701

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Subject:

Issuu Online Media  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2019

2019-2020

Topic:

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Web sites  Search this

Museum publications  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-047

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404703

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Uniform title:

Smithsonian Collections Blog  Search this

Type:

Electronic records

Collection descriptions

Web sites

Date:

2012

2012-2020

Topic:

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Museums--Collection management  Search this

Web sites  Search this

Blogs  Search this

Museum archives  Search this

SIRIS (Information system)  Search this

Museum libraries  Search this

Information storage and retrieval systems  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 22-052

See more items in:

Website Records 1995-2023 [Smithsonian Institution]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404704