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Creator:

National Museum of African American History and Culture  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2017-09-28T13:00:21.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

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Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

YouTube Channel:

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EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_wUuSYpW4ZIo

Subject:

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1894 or 1895

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)20636

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National Academy of Design records, 1817-2012

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_20636

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1895

Topic:

Cats  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)19060

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Thomas Anshutz papers, circa 1870-1942

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_19060

Creator:

Boas, Franz 1858-1942  Search this

Creator:

Hastings, Oregon Columbus  Search this

Physical description:

1 albumen print 005 in x 006 in mounted on 005 in x 006 in

Culture:

Kwakiutl Indians  Search this

Indians of North America Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1895

NOV 1895

Local number:

NAA INV 00077400

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Photographs of American Indians and Other Subjects 1840s-1960s

Data Source:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_19409

Collector:

Western Union Telegraph Company  Search this

Collection Creator:

United Telegraph Workers.  Search this

Western Union Telegraph Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (4.2" x 6.0")

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Place:

Newfoundland

Hearts Content (Newfoundland, Canada)

Date:

Circa 1900

Scope and Contents:

Albumen print?

Arrangement:

Photographs, Anglo-American

Local Numbers:

AC0205-0000090 (AC Scan)

Restrictions:

Unrestricted research access by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.

Collection 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:

Streets -- Canada  Search this

Telegraph, Wireless  Search this

Genre/Form:

Albumen prints -- 19th century

Collection Citation:

Western Union Telegraph Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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Western Union Telegraph Company Records

Western Union Telegraph Company Records / Series 23: Photographs / 23.7: Equipment / Anglo-American Telegraph Co., Ltd., Hearts Content, Newfoundland, ca. 1872.

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0205-ref11374

Collector:

Western Union Telegraph Company  Search this

Collection Creator:

United Telegraph Workers.  Search this

Western Union Telegraph Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (6.4" x 4.3")

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

Circa 1870

Arrangement:

Series 23, Box, Folder ?

Local Numbers:

AC0205-0000133 (AC Scan)

Restrictions:

Unrestricted research access by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.

Collection 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:

Telegraph -- Employees  Search this

Telegraph, Wireless  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1850-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen

Collection Citation:

Western Union Telegraph Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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Western Union Telegraph Company Records

Western Union Telegraph Company Records / Series 2: Subsidiaries / Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway Rules

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0205-ref11337

Creator:

American Car and Foundry Co. (Jackson & Sharp Car Co.)  Search this

Jackson & Sharp Car Co.  Search this

Source:

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Transportation  Search this

Former owner:

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Transportation  Search this

Extent:

2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 21 volumes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Cost account books

Albumen prints

Account books

Photographs

Order books

Lists

Place:

Delaware

Date:

1884-1948

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains order books, including design details of a wide variety of passenger, freight and specialty cars (including self-propelled electric cars), and cost accounts for the production department. Also included are 21 volumes of photographs of finished cars, arranged by lot number. These have separate indexes arranged alphabetically and by photograph number.

Arrangement:

The collection is divided into two series.

Series 1: Records,

Series 2: Photographs

Biographical / Historical:

The Jackson and Sharp Car Company, a manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, street railway cars, and ships, was incorporated in Delaware on February 24, 1869, as the successor to the partnership of Jackson & Sharp. Job H. Jackson (1833 1901), a tinsmith and mechanic, and Jacob F. Sharp (ca. 1815 1888), an experienced car builder, opened a small car building shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1863. Wilmington was a major center for the manufacture of railroad passenger cars prior to the development of Pullman, Illinois, in 1881. Sharp retired from the business in 1870. Soon after, Jackson erected the larger Delaware Car Works facility at the foot of 8th Street. A shipyard was added in 1875. By the late 1880s, the company was turning out about 400 cars per year, as well as sash work and panelling for buildings.

The American Car & Foundry Company purchased Jackson and Sharp in 1901 when Jackson died. American Car & Foundry, incorporated in New Jersey in 1899, was a typical late 19th century merger of many small car building companies. The Jackson and Sharp plant in Wilmington was used primarily for the construction of railroad cars for export orders until around 1920. From the end of World War One until 1938, the plant was kept open by building small pleasure boats. During World War Two the plant produced minesweepers. The plant was closed around 1945.

Related Materials:

The Delaware State Archives

Collection of approximately 3,000 negatives and photographs from Jackson and Sharp and American Car & Foundry. These include views of ships, electric railway cars, and railroad equipment. A description of the Delaware State Archives' collection can be found in the control file for coll. #156 and a copy of the microfiche listing of these photos is available in the Archives Center's microfiche cabinet. The Archives also holds over 160 drawings and blueprints for cars and ships, dating from 1881 1937 The Hagley Museum and Library of Wilmington, Delaware, contains several collections of Jackson & Sharp records. These include historical materials; contracts for car orders, 1898 1905; and drawings and blueprints, 1895 1930. A smaller body of Jackson & Sharp records is in the Historical Society of Delaware, in Wilmington.

New Jersey Historical Society

Manuscript Group 802, William F. Cone (1874-1966), Business records and negatives, 1880s-1966

Series 6 documents the production of railroad cars and marine vessels by the Jackson & Sharpe Plant of the American Car & Foundry Co., Wilmington, Delaware mostly between 1913-1929. Images of railroad cars the company produced include wooden and steel open platform cars, baggage cars, refrigerator cars, Pullman cars, railway post offices, sleeping cars, dining cars, engine rooms, parlor cars, box cars, gondola cars, flat cars, four-wheel trucks (the sets of wheels under train cars), underframes, interior furnishings for railroad cars, mantles, moldings and medallions. These products were made for railroad companies in the U.S., South America, Central America, and Cuba. Also included are images of the marine vessels the company produced including tugboats, scows and dredges, and several "named" vessels.

Provenance:

Immediate source of acquisition unknown.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Special care required in handling photographs, as the bound volumes are in poor condition.

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:

Railroads -- Cars  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cost account books

Albumen prints

Account books

Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen -- 1850-1900

Order books

Lists -- Photographs

Citation:

Jackson and Sharp Car Co. Records and American Car and Foundry Co. Collection, 1884-1948, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0156

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Jackson & Sharp Car Company Records and American Car & Foundry Company Collection

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0156

Collection Source:

Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.  Search this

Mechanisms, Division of.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Tainter, Charles Sumner, 1854-1940  Search this

Hartsook Studio (San Diego, Calif.)  Search this

Container:

Box 2, Folder 6

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1890

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Charles Sumner Tainter Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

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Charles Sumner Tainter Papers

Charles Sumner Tainter Papers / Series 1: Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0124-ref31

Creator:

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Extent:

9 Mounted prints (albumen)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Mounted prints

Photographs

Place:

Oraibi (Ariz.)

Arizona

Date:

circa 1872-1873

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs depicting a village, people, and rock formations in or near the Hopi village of Oraibi. The small albumen prints are the same as those normally used to make stereographs.

Biographical/Historical note:

John K. Hillers (1843-1925) immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1852. He spent almost twenty years photographing Native Americans and the landscape of the Indian Territories, California, the Southwest, and the Southeast, largely for the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States Geological Survey. He began work on the Survey as a boatman on John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871. He soon became the assistant, and then the main photographer (1872) for the expedition. From 1879 to 1900, Hillers served as the first staff photographer of Powell's Bureau of Ethnology, and in 1881 he took pictures for the United States Geological Survey.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 83-18

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs by John K. Hillers can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 87-2N, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.

The National Anthropological Archives holds Powell's inventory of photographs made on expeditions 1871-1875 (MS 1795-c).

The National Anthropological Archives holds Hillers's diary from 1871-1872 and 1874, 1875 (MS 4410).

The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, National Archives, Duke University, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at University of California at Berkeley, University of Oregon, Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, and Southern Methodist University also hold photographs by Hillers.

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 83-18, John K. Hillers photographs of a village near Oraibi, Arizona, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.83-18

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-83-18

Collector:

Bonaparte, Roland, prince, 1858-1924  Search this

Extent:

138 Mounted prints (albumen, 5 album boxes)

13 Photographic prints (collotype, 1 album box)

64 Photographic prints (color, 1 album box)

Culture:

Kalmyks  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Surinamese  Search this

Achinese (Indonesian people)  Search this

Somalis  Search this

Khoikhoi (African people)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Mounted prints

Photographic prints

Photographs

Date:

circa 1883-1884

Summary:

Photographic portfolios made by Prince Roland Bonaparte in his "Collection Anthropologique" group. The bulk of the collection consists of individual portraits of "Peaux-Rouges" (Omaha Indians), "Kalmouks" (Kalmyks), "Hindous" (Hindus), "Hottentots" (Khoikhoi), Somalis, "Atchinois" (Acehnese), and Surinamese. There are also some images of clothing, dwellings and animals, including camels and horses.

Scope and Contents note:

The collection is comprised of nine photographic albums (two are duplicates) of Omaha, Chinese, Kalmyk, Hindu, Hottentot, Somali and Surinamese people that were assembled by Prince Roland Bonaparte and published in a series of albums entitled the "Collection Anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte". Many of the photos were undertaken at various international exhibitions of the late nineteenth century: the Kalmyk and Omaha photographs were executed in Paris at the Jardin d'Acclimatation (1884) and the Hindu, Somali, Surinamese and Chinese photographs were taken during the 1883 Colonial Exposition in Amsterdam.

All of the albums, except for the volume on Surinamese peoples, is comprised of albumen prints. The Surinamese album includes photographs, collotypes, imprints, and text. Each album, except for those of the Hottentot and Surinamese people, is accompanied by an inventory produced by Bonaparte that lists the name, age, job and family lineage of each person.

Arrangement:

Within each series the original order was maintained. The photographs are organized by culture groups into seven series:

Series 1: Omahas

Series 2: Chinese

Series 3: Kalmyks

Series 4: Hindus

Series 5: Khoikhoi

Series 6: Somalis

Series 7: Surinamese

Biographical/Historical note:

Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924) was the grandson of Lucien, the second brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. Forbidden by law to pursue the military career he desired, he turned to geography and other sciences and received anthropological training from Paul Broca. Starting around 1882, he began to create and distribute albums organized by culture group as part of an "anthropological collection of human diversity." He studied the Lapp people in Finland in 1884 and then traveled to Mexico, Canada and, in 1887, the United States to study American Indians. The photograph project ended in the mid-1890s. He also published on other topics including the history of the Dutch colonial empire and glaciers of the French and Swiss Alps.

Bonaparte married Marie Blanc (1859-1882) in 1880 and had a daughter, Princess Marie Bonaparte, in 1882. He served as president of both the Société de géographie (1910-1924) and the Société française de photographie (1920-1922).

Related Materials:

The Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, division of the Collections of Maps and Plans, have related photographs and manuscript materials.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Dwellings  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 80-52, Prince Roland Bonaparte photograph collection of Omaha, Kalmouk, Hindu, Khoikhoi, Somali and Surinamese peoples, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.80-52

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Prince Roland Bonaparte photograph collection of Omaha, Kalmouk, Hindu, Khoikhoi, Somali and Surinamese peoples

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-80-52

Photographer:

Soule, William S. (William Stinson), 1836-1908  Search this

Extent:

1 Album (albumen)

92 Prints (Album, silver gelatin)

30 Prints (albumen (mostly cabinet cards))

42 Prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Niuam (Comanche)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Caddo  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache)  Search this

Wichita  Search this

Kiowa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albums

Prints

Photographs

Place:

Kansas

Oklahoma

Date:

1867-1874

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs by William S. Soule of Native Americans and camps in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kansas and Camp Supply and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Tribes represented include Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Wichita.

One albumen print mounted on a card with C. W. Carter's photographer imprint, though the photograph was made by Soule. One album includes silver gelatin prints made from original Soule negatives by Henry G. Peabody.

Biographical/Historical note:

William Stinson Soule (1836-1908) was the photographer at Fort Sill (now in Oklahoma) from its founding in 1869 to the end of the Indian campaigns in 1874-1875. Soule moved from New England circa 1868, first working as a photographer at Fort Dodge, Kansas, then at Camp Supply with General Philip Sheridan's campaigning troops. As the photographer for the United States Army at Fort Sill, he photographed the construction of the fort as well as many of the people and events associated with the Indian Wars. Soule left Fort Sill in 1875 to return to Boston where he joined his brother's Soule Photograph Co. and then operated the Soule Art Company until his death.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 3912

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional Soule photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4599, MS 4791, MS 2531, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 97-6, and the BAE historical negatives.

Correspondence from Henry G. Peabody and Lucia Soule relating to this collection held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Bureau of American Ethnology general correspondence.

The Huntington Library Photo Archives holds the Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives.

Lucia A. Soule also donated a Lincoln peace medal, which was transferred to the US National Museum, Department of History, in Accession 205943.

Contained in:

Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Camps  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 3912, William S. Soule photographs of Native Americans and camps in Kansas and Oklahoma, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.3912

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-3912

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Names:

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this

We'wha, 1849-1896  Search this

Extent:

5 Mounted prints (albumen)

7 Prints (cyanotype)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Mounted prints

Prints

Photographs

Cyanotypes

Date:

circa 1886

Scope and Contents note:

Includes images of We'wha (Zuni) spinning wool, setting up a loom, and weaving a blanket at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The photographs were probably made as part of a demonstration commissioned by Matilda Coxe Stevenson or the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Biographical/Historical note:

We'wha (d. 1896) was a Zuni berdache and one of Matilda Coxe Stevenson's main informants in her research. In 1886, We'wha spent six months in Washington, D.C., living with Stevenson and her husband and helping the Bureau of American Ethnology to record Zuni knowledge. As part of this documentation, the Bureau also photographed We'wha demonstrating Zuni weaving techniques.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 2004-03

Location of Other Archival Materials:

One albumen print mounted on boudoir card, previously held in MS 4624 (now in Photo Lot 23) has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 2004-03.

Original glass negatives for most of these images are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.

Additional photographs of We'wha are in the National Anthropological Archives in the Matilda Coxe Stevenson photographs (Photo Lot 23).

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Matilda Coxe Stevenson papers (MS 4689).

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Photographs of We'wha demonstrating Zuni textile making, circa 1886

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Spinning  Search this

Weaving  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Cyanotypes

Citation:

Photo Lot 2004-03, Photographs of We'wha demonstrating Zuni textile making, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.2004-03

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2004-03

Creator:

Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse) 1807-1894  Search this

Subject:

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)  Search this

E.M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology  Search this

Physical description:

Albumen prints;

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1877

Circa 1877

Topic:

Murals  Search this

Local number:

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B83_F01_001]

Restrictions & Rights:

No access restrictions. Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu

No Known Copyright

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404380

Creator:

Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse) 1807-1894  Search this

Subject:

Maclean, John 1800-1886  Search this

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)  Search this

E.M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology  Search this

Physical description:

Albumen prints;

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1877

Circa 1877

Topic:

Murals  Search this

Local number:

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B83_F01_002]

Restrictions & Rights:

No access restrictions. Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu

No Known Copyright

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404381

Creator:

Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse) 1807-1894  Search this

Subject:

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)  Search this

E.M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology  Search this

Physical description:

Albumen prints;

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1877

Circa 1877

Topic:

Murals  Search this

Local number:

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B83_F01_003]

Restrictions & Rights:

No access restrictions. Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu

No Known Copyright

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404382

Creator:

Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse) 1807-1894  Search this

Subject:

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)  Search this

E.M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology  Search this

Physical description:

Albumen prints;

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1877

Circa 1877

Topic:

Murals  Search this

Local number:

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B83_F01_004]

Restrictions & Rights:

No access restrictions. Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu

No Known Copyright

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404383

Collector:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Creator:

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903  Search this

Goupil & Cie  Search this

Names:

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

7 Albumen prints (each mounted on board)

Container:

Box 264

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Photographs

Place:

London (England)

Date:

1892

Scope and Contents:

Seven albumen prints prints taken in 1892 by commission of Goupil Gallery director D.C. Thomson. The photographs were taken prior to the sale of 49 Prince's Gate, so furniture and porcelains have been removed. The prints were sent to Charles Freer by Goupil Gallery staff in 1902.

Photographs of the Peacock Room at 49 Prince's Gate, London

Arrangement:

Organized in 1 box.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 12.02.3.1

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.02.3.1

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.2: Whistler / 12.2.4: Peacock Room

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref2316

Creator:

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879  Search this

Names:

Spartali, Christina  Search this

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

2 Prints (albumen and photogravure, image 13 x 9.8 cm mounted on board 16.4 x 10.6 cm.; second image is 7 3/4 x 5 in. on a sheet approx. 14 x 11in.)

Container:

Box 275

Type:

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Portraits

Place:

England -- London -- London

Date:

ca. 1865-1870

Scope and Contents:

Head and shoulders portraits of Christina Spartali, taken by Julia Margaret Cameron circa 1865-1870. One albumen print, mounted on gold cardboard. The line "From life copyright Julia Margaret Cameron" is printed on the board below the photo, followed by a second and third line, written in ink, which read "Christina Spartali" and "now Countess Cahen D'Anvers" respectively. A second portrait is a photogravure printed from an original Cameron negative in 1891 for the publication "Sun & Shade" by the publisher New York Photo-Gravure Co.

Julia Margaret Cameron photographs of Christina Spartali

Arrangement:

Organized in one flat box.

Biographical / Historical:

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a British photographer noted for her portraits of celebrities of the day.

Christina Spartali, second daughter of Michael Spartali and Euphrosyne Varsini Spartali, was born in Middlesex, England, in the mid to late 1840s. Her father, a prosperous cotton merchant who resided in London, became Consul-General for Greece in 1866. From 1864, the family lived in London at "The Shrubbery" in Clapham Common, and through their relatives the Ionides, prominent patrons of the arts, became acquainted with members of the contemporary art world, including James McNeill Whistler. Julia Margaret Cameron was the Spartalis' neighbor at Sandford, the family's estate on the Isle of Wight. Christina and her sister Marie were extraordinarily well-educated for women of their generation, but they were equally well-known for their beauty. Marie Spartali was an artist who publicly exhibited her work until the end of her life, but she remains better known as a model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other Victorian artists. Christina, who pursued no profession, is remembered for only one work, Whistler's "La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine", for which she posed in 1864-1865. Although "La Princesse" was not intended as a portrait, Whistler exhibited it in 1892 as "Portrait of Miss S.---," confident that his contemporaries would recognize the reference.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 12.02.6

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Portraits

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.02.6

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Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.3: Portraits of Others

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Skeen and Company  Search this

Scowen & Co.  Search this

Names:

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

62 Items (unmounted albumen prints)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Place:

Sri Lanka

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Photographic prints acquired by Freer duriing his tour of Colombo in February 1907, depicting the archaeological, religious, and scenic sites of Sri Lanka. Photographs include works by the major studios in Colombo such as Skeen & Co., and Scowen and Co. (later Apothecaries Co.), as well as works by unknown photographers. Geographically the images display a wide range of sites from across the island but emphasize the ancient ruins of the Anuradhapura District. All the prints are gold-toned albumen prints.

1: Alsophila Crinita. Caption: "Alsophila Crinita Woolly Tree-Ferns." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 2: Anuradhapura, Abhayagiri ViharaComplex, Abhayagiri Thupa, from the south. Caption: "Jetawanarama Dagoba 245 high. Anuradhapura." Captions: "Jetawanarama DagobaAnuradhapura", "Anuradhapura" Scowen; Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 3: Anuradhapura, Abhayagiri Vihara Complex, Kanda-oru. Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 4: Anuradhapura, Abhayagiri Vihara Complex, Kuttum Pokuna. Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 5: Anuradhapura, Abhayagiri Vihara Complex, Mahasena's Pavilion, moonstone and stairway. Captions: "Kings Palace Moonstone, Ruanwella", "Anuradhapura" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 6: Anuradhapura, Isurumuniya Temple, carved stone images. Captions: "Carved stone in S-steps, Isurumuniya", "Anuradhapura" Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Not after 1896; 7: Anuradhapura, Isurumuniya Temple, front from the east. Captions: "Isurumuniya Temple, Ruanwella", "Anuradhapura, Isurumuniya." Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Not after 1896; 8: Anuradhapura, Magul Uyana, rock cut pond. Caption: "A rock cut recess in connection with a bathing pond on the east side of the Tisawewa, Anuradhapura." Captions: "Rock cut recess east of Tissawewa", "Anuradhapura" Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 9: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, "Dalada Maligawa" idol house.; 10: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Kujjatissa Pabbata. Caption: "Sala Chaitiya Dagoba, Anuradhapura." Caption: "Anuradhapura" Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 11: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Kujjatissa Pabbata. Caption: "Sala Chaitiya Dagoba. Anuradhapura." Caption: "Anuradhapura" Scowen & Co. Between the 1876 and ca.1894; 12: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, monastic cistern and dyeing vessel near the Thuparama Dagoba. Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 13: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, monastic ruins west of the Ruvanvalisaya. Caption: "Ruins of the north west side of the Ruanwelli Dagoba, Anuradhapura." Caption: "Anuradhapura" Scowen & Co; Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 14: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex,monastic ruins south west of the Ruvanvalisaya. Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 15: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, monastic ruins south west of the Ruvanvalisaya. Caption: "Anuradhapura" Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 16: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Ruvanvalisaya, east entrance. Captions: "Ruanwella Dagoba from the east showing carved entrance", "Anuradhapura" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 17: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Ruvanvalisaya, southern vahalkada. Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 18: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Sri Maha Bodhi Shrine. Caption: "Ficus Religiosa, the sacred Bo tree at Anuradhapura. This ancient tree is an object of the most profound veneration to the Buddhists; its parent in India being the identical tree under which Gautama is said to have attained the Buddhaship. The original branch was planted by King Dewanpiya Tissa, B.C. 288. " Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 19: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, stone bulls near the Ruvanvalisaya. Captions: "Stone Bulls, Ruanwella", "Anuradhapura" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 20: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, stone figure. Caption: "Stone figure in Kachcheri ground, Ruanwella." Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 21: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Thuparama Dagoba, pillar capital. Caption: "Pillar at the Thuparama, Anuradhapura.". Not before 1862; 22: Anuradhapura, Mahavihara Complex, Thuparama Dagoba and surrounding ruins. Caption: "Polonnaruva?" Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 23: Anuradhapura, Mirisvatiya Dagoba. Captions: "Merisawatte Dagoba, Ruanwella", "Anuradhapura, Miriswetiya." Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 24: Anuradhapura, Western Monasteries, stone canopy. Skeen & Co. Between 1886 and 1903; 25: Anuradhapura District, Mihintale, Mahinda's Bed. Caption: "Mihintale,, Mahinda's Bed"; 26: Colombo District, Colombo Fort, from the south. Captions: "Barracks, Fort, Colombo. No. 62", "Colombo" C.A. Co. Ltd. Between the 1870s and ca.1890; 27: Kandy, Dalada Maligawa, entrance. Caption: "Entrance to the Buddhist Temple, Kandy." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 28: Kandy, Dalada Maligawa, front view. Caption: "Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) Kandy." Caption: "Kandy,, Maligawa." Scowen. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 29: Kandy, back of Temple. Captions: "Back of Temple, Kandy," Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 30: Kandy, "Florence Villa." Caption: "Florence Villa, Kandy, No. 193." C.A. Co. Ltd. Between the 1870s and ca.1890; 31: Kandy, Kandy Lake with Hantanne Peak in back. Caption: "Kandy Lake and Hantanne Peak." Scowen. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 32: Kandy, Kandy Lake and city from the South-east. Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 33: Kandy, Old Palace. Caption: "Old palace, Kandy"; 34: Kandy District, Panwila, "Holton Estate" tea plucking. Caption: "Plucking tea leaf-Holton Estate. Panwila." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 35: Kandy District, Peradeniya, Mahavali River. Caption: "River at Peradeniya." Skeen & Co. Between the late 1860s and 1903; 36: Kandy District, Peradeniya, Royal Botanic Gardens, Creeper. Caption: "A Creeper in the Peradeniya Gardens" Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 37: Kandy District, Peradeniya, Royal Botanic Gardens, fig tree. Caption: "Fig tree, Peradeniya"; 38: Kandy District, Peradeniya, Royal Botanic Gardens, palms. Caption: "Group of palms in the Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 39: Kandy District, Peradeniya, Royal Botanic Gardens, palms. Caption: "Group of Palms in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 40: Kandy District, Peradeniya, the Satinwood Bridge over the Mahavali River. Captions: "Satinwood Bridge from the gardens", "Peradeniya,, Royal Botanic Gardens.". Not after 1904; 41: Matale District, Aluvihara Rock Temple. Caption: "Matale. Aluwihara Rock Temple. Where Buddhist books were first committed to writing in B.C. 90." Caption: "Matale,, Aluvihara." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 42: Matale District, Aluvihara Rock Temple. Caption: "Rock Temple at Matara showing the Great Gorge"; 43: Matale District, Dambulla Cave Temple, entrance to a cave. Captions: "Rock Temple entrance, Mihintale", "Mihintale" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 44: Matale District, Dambulla Cave Temple, terrace. Captions: "Buddhist Rock temple view from terrace, Mihintale", "Mihintale" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 45: Matale District, Sigiriya Rock Fortress, assent to the summit. Captions: "Sigiri remains of galleries running to the top of the rock", "Sigiriya" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 46: Matale District, Sigiriya Rock Fortress, view to summit from the Lion Terrace. Captions: "Sigiri Rock", "Sigiriya"; 47: Matale District, Sigiriya Rock Fortress, stairs of the lower gallery. Captions: "Sigiri end of the remaining portion of the lower gallery", "Sigiriya"; 48: Nuvara Eliya, landscape. Captions: "Nuwera Eliya", "Nuwara Eliya" C. Scowen. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 49: Polonnaruva, Ancient City, Dalada Maluva Complex, Hatadage. Captions: "Atadage, Ruawella", "Anuradhapura" Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Not after 1903; 50: Polonnaruva, Ancient City, Dalada Maluva Complex, Hatadage, broken stone Buddha. Captions: "Atadage inner chamber"; "Polonnaruwa, Atadage." Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Not after 1903; 51: Polonnaruva, Ancient City, Siva Devale No. 1, east entrance. Captions: "Anuradhapura", "Anuradhapura" Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 52: Ratnapura District, Sripada. Caption: "Temple of Adam's Peak"; 53: Matale District, unidentified gorge. Caption: "Vicarton Gorge, Matale." Scowen & Co. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 54: Unidentified temple. Caption: "Buddhist Temple, Colombo No. 92." Caption: "Colombo." Apothecaries Co. Ltd; 55: Unidentified temple. Caption: "Buddhist Temple, Peradeniya." Caption: "Peradeniya." C.A. Co. Ltd; Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Between the 1870s and ca.1890; 56: Unidentified house. Captions: "Hill Club", "97' Moliya", "Nuwara Eliya" C. Scowen. Between 1876 and ca.1894; 57: Unidentified river. Captions: "Maskeliya river", "Maskeliya"; 58: Unidentified waterfall. Captions: "Maskeliya Falls", "Maskeliya"; 59: Unidentified waterfall.

Captions: "Naliawilla Falls Haputale,", "Haplutale"; 60: Unidentified waterfall. Captions: "The double Ramibadde Falls", "Ramboda"; 61: Unidentified ruins of stairs. The Colombo Apothecaries Company, Ltd. Photographers; 62: Unidentified brick ruin. The Colombo Apothecaries Company, Ltd. Photographers.

Arrangement:

Organized in the original manner by the creator.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 12.10

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.10

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.10: Sri Lanka

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Collector:

Ridout, Elizabeth  Search this

Extent:

1 Album (Accordion album with 24 albumen prints; 24 postcards)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albums

Photographs

Photograph albums

Postcards

Photographic prints

Hand coloring

Place:

Japan

Korea

Kobe-shi (Japan)

Nagasaki (Japan)

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

Nikko (Japan)

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Items presented to the Archives by collector Elizabeth Candida Ridout (1938-2015). Includes a small Japanese accordion album with brocade covers and 24 hand-tinted albumen photographs, ca. 1880s. One side of the album shows studio constructs and portraits of Japanese women, either alone or in groups posed in daily activities; the other side shows picturesque scenes of Japan, including Yokohama, Nikko, Kobe, Nagasaki and Mt. Fuji. Photographs are uncaptioned. The gift also includes 24 late 19th - early 20th century commercial postcards of Japan, hand-tinted. Four of the postcards are mementos from the trans-Pacific voyage on board the SS Mongolia, part of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.

Local Numbers:

FSA A2010.01

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Photography of women  Search this

Streets -- Japan  Search this

Temples -- Japan  Search this

Cruise ships  Search this

Travel  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1850-1900

Photograph albums

Postcards

Photographic prints

Hand coloring

Citation:

Elizabeth Ridout Collection, FSA.A2010.01. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Elizabeth Ridout, 2010.

Identifier:

FSA.A2010.01

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Elizabeth Ridout Collection

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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