This album contains 177 photographic prints taken by Frank Churchill between 1899 and 1900 and later compiled by Clara Churchill. Most of the photographs were taken in Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) with many shot in Tahlequah, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and in and around Muskogee where Churchill was living during his time as a revenue collector to the Cherokee Nation. There are also images from Texas, Kansas and Arkansas. The photographs are not arranged in chronological order (see the chronology for a timeline). Locations (Indian Territory unless otherwise indicated) represented in this album include—Tahlequah, Muskogee, Dawson, Verdigris, Gans, Campbell (TX), Fort Smith (AR), Parsons (KS), South McAlester and Denison (TX).
All the photographs in Tahlequah were taken in 1899 and include—Cherokee Children, Cherokee council and Capital buildings, Cherokee Council members Clem V. Rogers, Bluford W. Starr, J.S. Davenport, Daniel Te-hee, Scott, Lynch, Hildebrand, and Fawling; former Principal Cherokee Chief C.J. Harris and William H. Mayes; Josh Shepard and Miss Archer; Dr. Leoser and family; Mrs. Eliza Alberty, Callie McNair (Cherokee) and Miss Morgan; J.C. Dannenburg house; The National Hotel, US Courthouse, jail, advocate office, wagon yard and seminaries. Photographs taken in and around Muskogee include—Big Pond, Standwaty and Tody Standwaty (Muskogee Creek); US Judge J.R. Thomas at a ball game; a baptism in March 1900; US Indian Inspector offices with Frank Churchill and Guy Cobb; Muskogee city elections (Dew M. Wisdom for mayor); D.W. Tuttle; Miss Roberts; Still, Oppenheimer, Dunlap and Basler; street scenes, the cemetery and a masonic building. Additional views include—Grand River, Arkansas River, Brushy Mountain, railroad construction and the Red River Bridge in Texas.
Collection 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).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill collection, NMAI.AC.058, National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
This photograph depicts Duanfang and other men surrounding a bronze altar set that was later acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photograph was acquired by art historian Laurence Sickman, who lent if for many years to the Metropolitan where it was displayed in the galleries with the bronze alter set.
Biographical / Historical:
Duanfang was an officer in the Qing court who amassed an important art collection, which included jades, bronzes, paintings and sculpture. Duanfang worked in many different positions, including as a customs officer and a provincial governor. In the summer of 1905, Duanfang travelled to the West to research how governments in the United States and Europe functioned. In 1911, Duanfang travelled to Sichuan Province to oversee railroad construction. At the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Duanfang was beheaded by his own imperial troops, who were sympathetic to local revolutionaries.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2004.03
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Photograph of Duanfang and Colleagues. FSA.A2004.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Thomas Lawton.
Identifier:
FSA.A2004.03
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1863-1962, undated
Scope and Contents:
The George Gustav Heye subseries includes correspondence and subject files from before the founding of MAI through Heye's death in 1957. The bulk of his correspondence consists of purchase receipts and inquiries about Native American artifacts. There is a small amount of personal correspondence. George Heye subject files contain biographical information as well as various personal documents. Also included are eleven scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on the museum compiled by Heye between 1916 and 1947.
Biographical / Historical:
George Gustav Heye (1874--957) was the son of Carl Friederich Gustav Heye, a German immigrant who accumulated his wealth in the petroleum industry, and Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye of Hudson, N.Y. George Gustav graduated from Columbia College in 1896 with a degree in electrical engineering. While on a engineering assignment on a railroad construction job in Arizona in 1897, he acquired an Apache deerskin shirt, marking the beginning of his passion for collecting. Initially, it was a hobby. Heye acquired single pieces until 1903, when he began collecting material in huge numbers. In 1901, he began a career in investment banking that would last until 1909. By then his passion for acquiring Indian cultural materials had become more important to him than banking. Throughout the remainder of his life, his energy and fortune were spent accumulating the largest private collection of Native American objects in the world.
Heye enjoyed his visits to American Indian communities, buying everything in sight. While other collectors focused on what was considered to be the highly significant object, Heye often bought every object he could find, shipping the items back to New York. The collection was initially stored in Heye's Madison Avenue apartment in New York City, and later, in a rented room. Eventually, the collection was moved to the Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian at 155th Street and Broadway. A life member of the American Anthropological Association and the American Museum of Natural History, Heye was also a life fellow of the American Geographical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. He received an honorary doctorate (1929) of philosophy from the University of Hamburg.
Heye's life and character is often defined by his passion for collecting. But the way he handled the collection indicates how complex and relatively unique Heye was as a museum director. Heye served as director of the Museum of the American Indian until his health failed in 1956.
Collection 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).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
2 Film reels (69 minutes, color silent; 2,484 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1961
Scope and Contents:
Edited film documents several aspects of travel by railroads. Locales shown include Big Sur, California; Grand Central Station, New York; Strasburg Railroad Station; Chicago, Illinois; The Grand Canyon; Disneyland, Anaheim, California; cable cars in San Francisco, California; the Rio Grande and Durango, Colorado. Also documented are scenes of building and maintaining a railroad, a train "carwash", digging out a train covered in snow, the Ringling Brothers Circus train, and the trolly under the Library of Congress.
Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture
Legacy keywords: Transportation railroad train America ; Transportation trolly America ; Transportation trains care of America ; Travel by train America ; Circus ; Railroad construction
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.28
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Locomotives; cat-tread wagons; heavy grading equipment ; The Davenport Locomotive Works, of Davenport, Iowa, USA built locomotives from 1902 until 1956. The company acquired the locomotive business of H. K. Porter, Inc in 1950 and from then produced Porter designs as well as its own. The company built small steam locomotives early on; the first gasoline-fueled internal combustion engined locomotive was built in 1924 and the first diesel locomotive in 1927, a 30-ton diesel-electric for the Northern Illinois Coal Company of Boonville, Indiana. An extensive range of diesel locomotives in all industrial sizes followed, utilizing either mechanical torque converter or electric transmission, the former for the smaller locomotives. Most were used by a variety of industrial users, but some railroads also bought Davenport locomotives, particularly of the 44-ton size, that being the largest locomotive then allowed by union rules to be operated by one man. Railroad buyers included the Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, Santa Fe, the Frisco, and the Missouri Pacific. In 1963, that rule was relaxed and railroads ceased buying industrial-sized locomotives for light switching. Davenport built a number of locomotives for the United States Army during World War II, such as the USATC S100 Class 0-6-0, and subsequently eighteen larger switchers during the 1950s, two of which were adjustable in gauge -- one could operate on broad gauges up to 66-inch, and one on narrow gauges -- the latter operating for a period on the Denver & Rio Grande Western. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_Locomotive_Works )
Includes:
Trade catalog
Physical description:
7 pieces; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Davenport, Iowa, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Construction and earth-moving machinery Search this
Railroad; streetcar; subway and tramway equipment and supplies Search this
Lima Machine Works ; Lima Locomotive Works Inc. , Shovel & Crane Div. ; Lima Locomotive & Machine Co. ; Lima Locomotive Corp. ; Lima-Hamilton ; Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Search this
Notes content:
Locomotive engines , cars , wheels , axles , etc. ; "Shay" geared and rod locomotives ; locomotive stacks ; "Shay Industrials" brand name ; locomotive cars ; gears and pinions and other repair parts ; "Shay" geared locomotives for industrial railways ; locomotives for construction work ; "Lima Locomotive Works, Inc." company bulletins ; gasoline powered locomotives ; wood burning locomotives ; custom built locomotives for railway companies ; Southern Pacific Railway Co. ; "Lima Super-Power" steam locomotives ; locomotives for logging ; "Lima Super-Paymaster" ; cranes ; convertible shovel-dragline-crane ; "Photographic Impressions of Lima Locomotive Works, Inc." ; diesel engine and dual fuel engine data
Includes:
Trade catalog
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
52 pieces; 2 boxes
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Lima, Ohio, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Construction and earth-moving machinery Search this
Engines and motors: steam; oil; gas; etc. Search this
Railroad; streetcar; subway and tramway equipment and supplies Search this
"Lowell Corporation was founded as the Lowell Wrench Company in 1869 by John E. Sinclair after he obtained a patent for a new style of wrench, the Lowell Ratchet..." Source: In Lowell Corp. record . Search this
General constractors ; major construction company that builds bridges, structures associated for railroads, tunnels, military installations, dams, etc. ; book celebrating 25 years of business.
