Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Contributed in memory of Professor Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979), poet, educator, Black Arts Movement icon, and one of the Literary Corner's analysts.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Contributed in memory of Professor Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979), poet, educator, Black Arts Movement icon, and one of the Literary Corner's analysts.
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) Search this
Extent:
5 Drawings (visual works)
2 Engravings
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Engravings
Drawings
Portraits
Works of art
Place:
Oceania
South America
Date:
1838-1842
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of five (5) watercolor drawings and two (2) engravings made by Alfred T. Agate for the United States Exploring Expedition. It includes portraits of King Kamehameha III of Hawaii, Kotowatowa (a Maori chief), and unnamed individuals from Brazil, Peru, Fiji, as well as illustrations of Maori ornamental carvings.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Alfred Thomas Agate was an artist, painter, and miniaturist, known for his landscapes, portraits and scientific illustrations. Agate was born February 14, 1812 in Sparta, N.Y. In 1838, he joined the Scientific Corps of the United States Exploring Expedition as a portraitist and botanical artist. He spent four years traveling around the world, mapping the coast of Oregon, documenting hundreds of islands in the Pacific, and collecting more than sixty thousand plant and bird specimens. In 1842, Agate settled in Washington, D.C., and prepared his drawings for the expedition's multi-volume report. He died January 5, 1846.
Variant Title:
Natives of Oceania, and ornamental architecture, signed "A. T. Agate, del., A. T. A., del.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 382524
USNM Accession 16909
Related Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds additional Agate drawings from the United States Exploring Expedition in The Division of Ethnology photograph collection (Photo Lot 97).
The Naval History and Heritage Command Archives holds the Alfred Agate collection.
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. M. C. Hopkins to United States National Museum, May 7, 1942. The collection was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in July 1969.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Portraits
Engravings
Works of art
Citation:
Alfred T. Agate drawings from the United States Exploring Expedition (MS 382524), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor and pencil, 6 x 9 inches)
Container:
Box 382524, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Graphic Materials
Drawings (visual works)
Date:
1838
Scope and Contents:
Watercolor and colored pencil drawing made in Rio de Janiero of a man from Beguela, Angola. The drawing depicts the man's head and torso, but the head only was published in Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, vol. 1, page 62.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 08527900
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Alfred T. Agate drawings from the United States Exploring Expedition (MS 382524), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This collection consists of two copies of the DVD "Arts of the Monsoon," (2016) one standard and one Blu-ray. Produced in 2016 by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the film portrays how the dhows, in sailing across the monsoon winds of he Indian Ocean between Oman and East Africa, brought cross-cultural influences along the coastal areas of Sur, Salalah, and Zanzibar.
Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
The collection consists of 38 color transparencies, 648 color slides and 10 black-and-white photographic prints taken by Lynn McLaren Demarest while on assignment for various news outlets in the 1950s and 1960s. A majority of the slides and transparencies were taken in East Africa and document indigenous peoples, agriculture (cotton in particular), health and nutrition education, UNICEF activities, architecture, natural landscapes, animals, fishers, coffee plantations and the sisal industry. Locations include Mobassa, Lamu Island, Zanzibar, Dar es Saalam, Lake Victoria, Mount Kilimajaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Mikumi National Park (Tanzania). The black-and-white photographs depict East African leaders, such as Julius Nyerere, and prominent international visitors to the region, including Robert Kennedy. A small number of slides and transparencies were taken in India.
Arrangement note:
Arrangement reflects the original order established by the photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
Lynn McLaren (1922-2008) was a professional photojournalist who worked on assignment for National Geographic, Life, Newsweek and Business Week since the 1950s and 1960s. A member of the Society of Women Geographers, McLaren lived and traveled extensively around the world, photographing peoples and places in Kenya, Tanzania (Zanzibar), India, Nepal, Spain, Germany and the United States. McLaren was also the author of five books, including Berlin and the Berliners and The Village: The People (India), all of which are richly illustrated with her photographs. In 2007, she had a major retrospective of her photography, Fifty Years of Photographs from Around the World, at the Marion Art Center in Marion, Massachusetts.
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries) Search this
Extent:
1 Album (Photograph albums, 4.5 x 3.25 in. (photographs), 9 x 14 x 0.5 in. (album))
Container:
Item Ph042
Type:
Archival materials
Albums
Date:
1905 - 1906
General note:
Photograph album with 69 original photographs, each titled, mounted on 50 pages, with title "Africa - east" in ink and date "1905-1906" in pencil at top of first page, and signed by Ethel Younghusband on preliminary page, preserved within brown paper wrappers. These would appear to include many of the photographs used in her book. Ph042 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Kinshasa Province -- Kinshasa -- (Léopoldville)
Date:
ca. 1910
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "11. Congo Belge - Léopoldville-Est.; La Congo Trading Cy." Translated postcard caption reads: " Belgian Congo. East Léopoldville. The Congo Trading Company."
Publisher's logo on recto and verso: "Nels." Printed text on verso reads: "Photo C. De Bruyne - Edition C. De Bruyne."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-28-61
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Kenya, -- Nairobi, -- Hotel InterContinental Nairobi
Date:
c. 1970
Scope and Contents:
Text on verso reads: "Hotel Inter-Continental. Nairobi. Kenya - East Africa. "Africa in Pictures." 120/198. PEGAS. Copyright Owner: The Elite Group, P. O. Box 40683 Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-50-04
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Image indexed by catalogue number or subjects.
Provenance:
Amy Staples; Donation; FY 1995; EEPA 1995-027
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Text on recto reads: "Kenya East Africa. Kikuyu Village. 314."
Text on verso reads: "Edition "Africa in Pictures." Copyright by S. Skulina PEGAS STUDIO - Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-12-06
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Image indexed by catalogue number or subjects.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Printed caption on verso reads: "Madagascar / Côte-Est, Cases typiques."
Translated caption reads: "Madagascar / East Coast, Typical Huts."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "20. - Reproduction interdite / Editions Opticam; 15, Rue Amiral Pierre - Tananarive; d'apres Diapo Ektachrome Kodak."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-07-30
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Provenance:
Roy and Brigitta Mitchell Collection; Donation; 2010; EEPA 2010-008.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Original caption reads, "Madagascar - East Coast - Tying Up of a horizontal Body." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Tamatave, Madagascar, 16 August 1906."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-02
Local Note:
temp 139
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
