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James A. Baldwin Collection

Creator:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987  Search this
Names:
Baldwin, Daniel  Search this
Baldwin, David  Search this
Dandridge, Frank  Search this
Evers, Charles  Search this
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968  Search this
Whaley, Paula Baldwin  Search this
Extent:
4.29 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Correspondence
Place:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
France
Turkey
Venice (Italy)
Date:
1935-1988
Summary:
James Baldwin was a writer and an activist and is one of the most prominent voices from his generation to bring light to issues of racial and sexual discrimination. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, and awards. The collection provides insight into his family, writing process, and travels during his lifetime.
Scope and Contents:
The James Baldwin Collection provides insight into Baldwin's life as a writer and activist. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, and awards. A significant portion of the collection are photographs by photojournalist Frank Dandridge. The collection focuses on Baldwin's grade school educational career, his writing process, as well as his thoughts about social equality and civil rights.
Arrangement:
The materials in this collection have been kept at the folder level and separated into six series. The materials have been ordered and organized based on the content. Series 6 has been broken down into a smaller subseries dedicated to the Frank Dandridge photographic prints. Series 8: Oversize Materials acts as an extension of the first five series, with materials that could not be housed with their corresponding materials due to size constraints. Within each series and subseries, the folders are organized as close to the collection's original order as when it was acquired.
Biographical Sketch:
James Arthur Baldwin (1924–1987) was born in Harlem, New York, on August 2, 1924, to Emma Berdis Jones, originally from Princess Anne, Maryland. He was reared by his mother and stepfather David Baldwin, whom Baldwin referred to as his father and whom he describes as extremely strict. He did not know his biological father. As the oldest of nine children, Baldwin took seriously the responsibility of being a big brother and his mother's right hand. He cared for and protected his three younger brothers and five sisters in a household governed by the rigid rules of their father, a Baptist preacher, originally from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, Baldwin, himself, became a preacher at the Fireside Pentecostal Assembly, where he developed a celebrated preaching style. Baldwin's brief experience in the church would have a sustained impact on his rhetorical style and on the themes, symbols, and biblical allusions in his writings. Baldwin's Pentecostal experience is, in fact, essential to understanding his complex views on Christianity, which he espoused in his speeches and publications. His experience would also serve in part as the underpinnings of his stance on religion. In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin proclaims, "If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, it is time we got rid of Him." During his early teen years, Baldwin attended Frederick Douglass Junior High School, where he met his French teacher and mentor Countee Cullen, who achieved prominence as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Baldwin went on to DeWitt Clinton High School, where he edited the school newspaper The Magpie and participated in the literary club, just as Cullen had done when he was a student there. By high school graduation, he had met his close friends at DeWitt Clinton—Richard Avedon, Emile Capouya, and Sol Stein.

The 1940s marked several turning points in Baldwin's life. In 1942, he graduated from high school, and a year later he witnessed the New York Race Riots and experienced the death of his father. After this emotional loss, Baldwin felt more than ever it was important to play father figure to his siblings. He worked at menial jobs during the day, and at night he played guitar in Greenwich Village cafes and wrote long hours, trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.

In 1944, Baldwin met Richard Wright, whose written work spoke to his heart and who would also become a mentor. Baldwin appreciated Wright's strong opinions about race in America, and he greatly valued their intellectual exchange. Wright helped Baldwin to obtain a fellowship to write his first novel, which enabled him to leave for Paris in 1948, where the older writer had relocated a few years earlier. However, the two were often at odds about the ways in which they approached race in their work. Baldwin wrote three essays explicating his critique of Wright's "protest art." This conflict eventually led to the demise of their friendship.

In 1948, at age twenty-four, Baldwin left the United States to live in Paris, France, as he could not tolerate the racial and sexual discrimination he experienced on a daily basis. Professor Kendall Thomas of Columbia Law School explains that Baldwin left his country because of racism and Harlem because of homophobia--two aspects of his identity that made him a frequent target of beatings by local youth and the police. Years later, when asked about his departure, Baldwin explained in a Paris Review interview: "My luck was running out. I was going to go to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed" (1984). In Paris, Baldwin began to interact with other writers. He reconnected with Richard Wright, and for the first time, he met Maya Angelou, with whom he maintained a close relationship.

Baldwin would spend the next forty years abroad, where he wrote and published most of his works. Between 1960 and 1970, Baldwin lived regularly in Istanbul, Turkey. Still, the violence and assassinations in the United States during the politically turbulent 1960s took an emotional toll on Baldwin. After the assassination of his three friends—Medgar Evers in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968—Baldwin suffered an emotional breakdown and eventually moved to the South of France to recuperate. In 1970, he settled in a house in the village of St. Paul de Vence, where he would live the rest of his life.

During his years abroad, Baldwin returned to the United States frequently and considered himself a "transatlantic commuter." In 1955, he signed a lease for an apartment at 63 West 97th Street in New York, and from the mid 1960s on, he maintained a home at 137 West 71st Street in Manhattan. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Baldwin was actually living in California. Many of Baldwin's extended visits were to spend time with his large and beloved family and to participate in Civil Rights Movement events. He attended the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. Baldwin also participated in literary events, such as the 1965 conference titled "The Negro Writer's Vision of America" sponsored by the New School of Social Research in New York. During his presentation, Baldwin addressed the conference theme, stating, "I know a story which America denies. And it denies it for the very good reason that my story, once told, confronts it with the truth about itself. In fact, my story, once told, will liberate America. The possibility of liberation—the necessity of becoming responsible for one's own life—is what most people most profoundly fear."

Baldwin passed away on November 30, 1987, in his house in St. Paul de Vence after a short battle with stomach cancer. A week later, he was laid to rest at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in New York. Family members and friends participated in a large service during which Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and Maya Angelou delivered touching remarks about their friend and brother. Angelou stated that Baldwin's love "opened the unusual door for me, and I am blessed that James Baldwin was my brother."

Literary and Civil Rights Timeline

1924 -- Born August 2nd

1938 -- Graduates from Frederick Douglass Junior High School, where his early ambitions in writing were encouraged by his teacher Countee Cullen, the Harlem Renaissance poet

1942 -- Graduates from DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was a member of the literary club and edited the school newspaper The Magpie

1944 -- Meets writer Richard Wright, who refers Baldwin's first draft of Go Tell It On The Mountain to Harper and Brothers publishing house

1945 -- Receives a $500.00 Saxton Fellowship from Harper and Brothers; the first draft of Go Tell It On The Mountain is rejected by Harper and Doubleday; Baldwin begins writing reviews for The Nation and The New Leader

1947 -- Publishes essay "History as Nightmare" in The New Leader

1948 -- Publishes essay "The Harlem Ghetto" and short story "Previous Condition" in Commentary; Baldwin moves to Paris

1949 -- Publishes "Everybody's Protest Novel," in which he critics Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Richard Wright's Native Son; jailed in Paris for eight days for theft (falsely accused of stealing hotel bed sheets)

1951 -- Publishes "Many Thousands Gone" in the Partisan Review; attack on Richard Wright leads to breakup; Baldwin completes Go Tell It On the Mountain in Switzerland, where he stayed three months with Swiss friend and lover Lucien Happersberger

1953 -- Publishes "Stranger in the Village" in Harper's Magazine; the essay is based on his stay in Switzerland

1954 -- Wins Guggenheim Fellowship; attends MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire

1955 -- Attends Yadao, an artists' community in Sarasota Springs, New York; revises Amen Corner during Howard University rehearsals and publishes it the same year; also publishes the collection of essays Notes of a Native Son and an autobiographical narrative "Equal in Paris," about being jailed in Paris in 1949, originally published in Commentary magazine

1956 -- Publishes Giovanni's Room with Dial Press; accepts National Institute of Arts and Letters Award and a Partisan Review fellowship; covers First Conference of Negro and African Writers and Artists at the Sorbonne, sponsored by Presence Africanize

1957 -- Publishes "Sonny's Blues" in the Partisan Review; Travels to the South on assignment for the Partisan Review, where he interviews student protests and meets with Martin Luther King, Jr.

1959 -- Awarded a two-year Ford Foundation grand to complete Another Country; Interviews film director Ingmar Bergman in Sweden; publishes essay "A Letter From the South: Nobody Knows My Name" in the Partisan Review ; apprentice on Elia Kazan's productions of Sweet Bird of Youth and J.B.

1960 -- Covers sit-ins in Tallahassee, Florida; interviews student at Florida A & M; published "They Can't Turn Back" in Mademoiselle Magazine; Richard Wright dies suddenly

1961 -- Publishes second collection of essays Nobody Knows My Name, Dial Press; publishes the essay "Alas, Poor Richard," another scathing critic of Richard Wright's work; appears on radio and television to promote Nobody Knows My Name and to speak about civil rights; meets Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X; completes Another Country; Swiss television produces "Stranger in the Village"; publishes the "Black Boy Looks at the White Boy"; makes first visit to Turkey at the invitation of Turkish actor Engin Cezzar

1962 -- Publishes Another Country, Dial Press, and it becomes a national best seller; Baldwin travels to West Africa; "Letter from a Region in My Mind" published in The New Yorker, later printed in The Fire Next Time as "Down at the Cross"

1963 -- Publishes The Fire Next Time to national acclaim; appears on the cover of May 17th issue of Time magazine; NAACP Field Secretary and friend Medgar Evers is assassinated on June 12 outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi; starts lecture tour for CORE in the South and the North; registers voters in Alabama for SNCC; wins Polk Memorial Award for outstanding magazine journalism; participates in March on Washington; travels to Nairobi, Kenya, with Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier to celebrate Kenya's independence

1964 -- Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters; publishes the play Blues for Mr. Charlie, Dial Press, and theater production of Blues for Mr. Charlie appears at the historic American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) in New York; publishes Nothing Personal with photographer and high school friend Richard Avedon, Atheneum Books

1965 -- Debates William F. Buckley at Cambridge and receives standing ovation for his response to "Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?"; Malcolm X is assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity; Baldwin attends Selma to Montgomery March; publishes Going to Meet the Man, Dial Press; The play The Amen Corner is performed in New York, Israel, and Europe

1968 -- Publishes the novel Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, Dial Press; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; Baldwin speaks at the World Council of Churches in Sweden against apartheid in South Africa; testifies at a Congressional hearing in support of a commission to establish a national museum of African American history and culture; receives personal attacks from Soul on Ice author Eldridge Cleaver

1969 -- Publishes New York Times article "The Price May Be Too High" about black writers in a white publishing industry; directs John Herbert's "Fortune and Men's Eyes" in Istanbul, Turkey

1970 -- Becomes the subject of photographs and a short film From Another Place , both by Sedat Pakay in Istanbul; holds conversations with anthropologist Margaret Mead titled "A Rap On Race"

1971 -- Baldwin and anthropologist Margaret Mead publish the transcript of conversations held in New York in 1970 in a co-authored book titled A Rap On Race; publishes "An Open Letter to My Sister Angela Davis" in New York Times Review of Books; moves to a house in St. Paul de Vence in the South of France

1972 -- Publishes No Name In The Street, Dial Press; publishes the screenplay One Day When I Was Lost, based on Alex Haley's bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X .

1973 -- Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates secures rare interview with James Baldwin and Josephine Baker together in James Baldwin's house in St. Paul de Vence, France; Baldwin appears with television host and poet Nikki Giovanni on "Soul," and the transcript is published as a dialogue

1974 -- Publishes If Beale Street Could Talk, Dial Press; becomes the third recipient (after writer Tennessee Williams and dancer Martha Graham) of the prestigious Centennial Medal awarded to "The Artist As Prophet" by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York

1976 -- Publishes what would be his only children's book Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, with illustrations by Yoran Cazac, Dial Press; publishes the book-length essay The Devil Finds Work

1978 -- Teaches a spring course in contemporary literature at Bowling Green State University in Ohio (returns in the fall of 1979 and 1981); awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Medal

1979 -- Publishes Just Above My Head, his sixth and last novel, Dial Press; goes into seclusion after friend and mentor Beauford Delaney dies in March; teaches at UC Berkeley in the spring and speaks in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara; begins writing and lecturing on black English; publishes "Open Letter to the Born Again" in The Nation; meets Chinua Achebe at the University of Florida, African Literature Association; travels throughout the South

1982 -- Film makers Dick Fontaine and Pat Harley release television documentary of Baldwin' trip through the South "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"

1983 -- Publishes selected poems in Jimmy's Blues, St. Martin's Press; teaches Afro American Studies at University of Amherst in the fall

1984 -- Hospitalized for exhaustion; works on the play The Welcome Table

1985 -- Publishes "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood" in Playboy; American Playhouse dramatizes Go Tell It On The Mountain; publishes The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Holt, Rinehart & Winston Publishing; publishes The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction, 1948–1985, St. Martin's Press

1986 -- Receives France's highest civilian recognition, the Legion of Honor; travels to the Soviet Union for an international conference and to London for a production of Amen Corner ; suffers fatigue and becomes ill

1987 -- Returns to St. Paul de Vence and is diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, which spreads to the stomach; grants his last interview to poet and journalist Quincy Troop in mid-November in bed at his home; dies November 30 and his friend and assistant publicly announces his death December 1; memorials are held in St. Paul de Vence and Harlem; is eulogized by Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Amiri Baraka at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York; body buried at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York
Provenance:
Acquired as a purchase from Baldwin's sister, Paula Baldwin Whaley in 2017.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Access to collection materials requires an appointment.
Rights:
The NMAAHC Archives can provide reproductions of some materials for research and educational use. Copyright and right to publicity restrictions apply and limit reproduction for other purposes.
Topic:
Literature  Search this
Architecture  Search this
Civil rights  Search this
Theater  Search this
LGBTQ+  Search this
Activism  Search this
Awards  Search this
Education  Search this
Communication  Search this
Families  Search this
finance  Search this
Funeral rites and ceremonies  Search this
Journalism  Search this
Justice  Search this
Mass media  Search this
Photography  Search this
Politics  Search this
Poverty  Search this
Race discrimination  Search this
Sexuality  Search this
Travel  Search this
Identity  Search this
Genre/Form:
Correspondence
Citation:
James Baldwin Collection, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Identifier:
NMAAHC.A2017.47
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James A. Baldwin Collection
Archival Repository:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/io3721df784-2906-46b1-9424-8cf154ce1eb8
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmaahc-a2017-47
Online Media:

The Crisis, Vol. 5, No. 1

Edited by:
W.E.B. Du Bois, American, 1868 - 1963  Search this
Subject of:
The Crisis, American, founded 1910  Search this
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909  Search this
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, British, 1875 - 1912  Search this
Illustrated by:
John Henry Adams Jr., American, 1880 - 1944  Search this
Written by:
Charles Edward Stowe, American, 1850 - 1934  Search this
Jessie Redmon Fauset, American, 1882 - 1961  Search this
Jane Addams, American, 1860 - 1935  Search this
Lafayette M. Hershaw, American, 1863 - 1945  Search this
Medium:
ink on paper with metal
Dimensions:
H x W: 9 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (24.8 × 17.1 cm)
H x W (Open): 9 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. (24.8 × 34.3 cm)
Type:
magazines (periodicals)
Place printed:
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Date:
November 1912
Topic:
African American  Search this
Advertising  Search this
Associations and institutions  Search this
Black Press  Search this
Business  Search this
Civil Rights  Search this
Composers (Musicians)  Search this
Education  Search this
Journalism  Search this
Literature  Search this
Mass media  Search this
Music  Search this
Poetry  Search this
Politics  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Slavery  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Social reform  Search this
U.S. History, 1865-1921  Search this
Women's organizations  Search this
Credit Line:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number:
2015.97.14.5
Restrictions & Rights:
Public domain
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
See more items in:
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Classification:
Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
Movement:
Women's Club Movement
Data Source:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd56505ca46-a235-449f-a8ae-7208fb57a32f
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmaahc_2015.97.14.5
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The Crisis, Vol. 15, No. 5

Edited by:
W.E.B. Du Bois, American, 1868 - 1963  Search this
Subject of:
The Crisis, American, founded 1910  Search this
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909  Search this
Illustrated by:
Frank Walts, American  Search this
Hilda Rue Wilkinson Brown, American, 1894 - 1981  Search this
Written by:
Waverley Turner Carmichael, American, 1881 - 1936  Search this
Medium:
ink on paper with metal
Dimensions:
H x W: 9 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (25.1 × 17.5 cm)
H x W (Open): 9 7/8 × 13 5/8 in. (25.1 × 34.6 cm)
Type:
magazines (periodicals)
Place printed:
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted:
East Saint Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
Houston, Harris County, Texas, United States, North and Central America
Date:
January 1918
Topic:
African American  Search this
Advertising  Search this
Associations and institutions  Search this
Black Press  Search this
Business  Search this
Civil Rights  Search this
Education  Search this
Law  Search this
Literature  Search this
Mass media  Search this
Military  Search this
Poetry  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Race riots  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Social reform  Search this
U.S. History, 1865-1921  Search this
World War I  Search this
Credit Line:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number:
2015.97.15.6
Restrictions & Rights:
Public domain
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
See more items in:
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Classification:
Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
Data Source:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5885dd3a8-6bb5-47f3-9e41-02bca6fd14a1
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmaahc_2015.97.15.6
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New Orleans -- Strachan Garden

Provenance:
New Orleans Garden Study Club  Search this
Weller, Eleanor C.  Search this
Former owner:
Strachan, Rose  Search this
Strachan, Frank  Search this
Owner:
Strachan, Patricia Forsyth  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Strachan Garden (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Scope and Contents:
1 folder and 20 35mm slides.
General:
Located in an area called the Garden District in New Orleans, Louisiana, this garden includes distinct areas including a formal rose garden, courtyard paved in pink granite, and an elegant teahouse. Cast iron fences, hedges of sasanqua, and clipped rows of cherry laurel separate each garden room. Walls further screen the swimming pool, hot houses and tool storage building. Sculptures and fountains ornament various locations and compliment seasonal blooms, camellias, gardenias, and azaleas.

The garden closest to the house was originally established in 1933. Landscape architect Umberto Innocenti designed the patio with the crane fountain and pink granite blocks in 1958. In 1953, the only plants left from the original planting are the large crepe myrtle trees in each corner and the sweet olives. On the west side of the house, there were long garden beds bordered by violets planted with different varieties of iris, crinums and flowering shrubs. Hedges of gardenias enclosed a formal garden on the other side of the house and at the center of the garden a large kettle from a sugar plantation was sunk and used as a pool. Behind the house was a play yard for children and a hothouse filled with orchids.

The Greek Revival Style home was built for cotton owner Jacob Upshur Payne in 1849. A granite plinth in the shape of a cemetery headstone notes that Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, died during his stay at the home on December 6, 1889.

Persons associated with the property include Jacob Upshur Payne (former owner, 1849), Jacob Payne, Jr. (former owner, 1886), Mrs. Charles E. Fenner (former owner, 1901), William B. Forsyth (former owner, 1935), Frank and Rose Strachan (former owner, 1942-1987?), Umberto Innocenti (landscape architect, 1958), Patricia Forsyth Strachan (owner, 2019?).
Collection 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.
Collection 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 -- Louisiana -- New Orleans  Search this
Formal gardens  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File LA010
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The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Louisiana
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb672544a12-ea4f-44bb-a64c-8a28cac7c391
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref7911

In the Cemetery, New Orleans, La. [Active no. 803. Stereo photonegative.]

Topic:
THE SOUTH
Publisher:
Underwood & Underwood  Search this
H.C. White Co.  Search this
Collection Creator:
Underwood & Underwood  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (3-3/4" x 7".)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Stereoscopic photographs
Place:
Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish
New Orleans (La.)
Local Numbers:
RSN 520
General:
Currently stored in box 1.1.3 [153]. Orig. no. 4-3.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. The original glass plate is available for inspection if necessary in the Archives Center. A limited number of fragile glass negatives and positives in the collection can be viewed directly in the Archives Center by prior appointment. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
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:
Tombstones  Search this
Cemeteries -- Louisiana -- New Orleans  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs -- 1900-1910 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Glass
Stereoscopic photographs
Collection Citation:
Underwood &Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
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Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection
Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 1: H. C. White glass plates / 1.1: H.C. White Negatives / RSN Numbers 464-573
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep813555bd9-d888-4356-a860-3ca2b3baf73c
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0143-ref1391

"South" cemetery [on envelope]. [No. 6 : interpositive.]

Publisher:
Underwood & Underwood  Search this
H.C. White Co.  Search this
Collection Creator:
Underwood & Underwood  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (4" x 5".)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Place:
Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish
New Orleans (La.)
Local Numbers:
RSN 8143
General:
Currently stored in box 1.2.16 [17].
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. The original glass plate is available for inspection if necessary in the Archives Center. A limited number of fragile glass negatives and positives in the collection can be viewed directly in the Archives Center by prior appointment. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
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:
Cemeteries -- Louisiana  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs -- 1900-1910 -- Interpositives -- Glass
Collection Citation:
Underwood &Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
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Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection
Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 1: H. C. White glass plates / 1.2: H.C. White Interpositives / RSN Numbers 8091-8191
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep836010bc7-90de-4c76-b9f0-a7e7aabe1c19
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0143-ref1568

Oxyrrhynchium praelongum (Hedw.) Warnst.

Biogeographical Region:
78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this
Collector:
A. B. Langlois  Search this
Place:
Cemetery, New Orleans. Bord du chemin., Louisiana, United States, North America
Collection Date:
14 Jan 1887
Taxonomy:
Plantae Bryophyta Bryopsida Hypnales Brachytheciaceae
Published Name:
Oxyrrhynchium praelongum (Hedw.) Warnst.
Barcode:
04662182
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Botany
Bryophytes and Lichens
Data Source:
NMNH - Botany Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fdd92c88-2dbe-4407-bc1e-2d03e5e8fa5a
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16539268

Splachnobryum obtusum (Brid.) Müll. Hal.

Biogeographical Region:
78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this
Collector:
F. P. Mackaness  Search this
Place:
St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, New Orleans., Louisiana, United States, North America
Collection Date:
14 Sep 1942
Taxonomy:
Plantae Bryophyta Bryopsida Pottiales Splachnobryaceae
Published Name:
Splachnobryum obtusum (Brid.) Müll. Hal.
Barcode:
04490810
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Botany
Bryophytes and Lichens
Data Source:
NMNH - Botany Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e552f3f0-083c-47ca-8ab5-5ded7556aeea
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhbotany_16425571

Illicium parviflorum Michx. ex Vent.

Biogeographical Region:
78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this
Collector:
Lydia Bougere  Search this
Place:
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans., Louisiana, United States, North America
Collection Date:
12 May 1956
Taxonomy:
Plantae Dicotyledonae (basal) Austrobaileyales Schisandraceae
Published Name:
Illicium parviflorum Michx. ex Vent.
Barcode:
03725697
USNM Number:
2847936
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Botany
Flowering plants and ferns
Data Source:
NMNH - Botany Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/364aadf4c-c5cd-40a6-a664-e981e87e4183
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhbotany_15404953

Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

Biogeographical Region:
78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this
Collector:
F. N. Irving  Search this
Microhabitat Description:
Growing well back on brick walls of old crypt.  Search this
Place:
St. Roch Chapel, St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans., Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America
Collection Date:
9 Nov 1945
Taxonomy:
Plantae Pteridophyte Polypodiales Pteridaceae
Published Name:
Adiantum capillus-veneris L.
Barcode:
01922942
USNM Number:
2761655
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Flowering plants and ferns
Data Source:
NMNH - Botany Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39475ba66-448d-4a49-8e38-ff36792f90ce
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhbotany_13485312

Pteris vittata L.

Biogeographical Region:
78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this
Collector:
E. Pond  Search this
Place:
St. Louis Cemetery New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America
Collection Date:
Dec 1889
Taxonomy:
Plantae Pteridophyte Polypodiales Pteridaceae
Published Name:
Pteris vittata L.
Barcode:
01477191
USNM Number:
619927
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Flowering plants and ferns
Data Source:
NMNH - Botany Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3ba3ab91b-2097-4cc1-b3e8-5384a460cec6
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhbotany_12321223

Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

Biogeographical Region:
78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this
Collector:
J. H. Ferriss  Search this
Place:
St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans., Louisiana, United States, North America
Taxonomy:
Plantae Pteridophyte Polypodiales Pteridaceae
Published Name:
Adiantum capillus-veneris L.
Barcode:
01486858
USNM Number:
693073
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Botany
Flowering plants and ferns
Data Source:
NMNH - Botany Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3933fa408-34de-403d-b226-3d76c52c7662
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhbotany_12329470

St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans

Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
Object Name:
stereograph
Place made:
United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
Date made:
1850s-1860s
Subject:
Cemetery  Search this
grave  Search this
ID Number:
2012.3033.0053
Nonaccession number:
2012.3033
Catalog number:
2012.3033.0053
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Work and Industry: Photographic History
Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-70a7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1852279
Online Media:

Confederate Tomb, Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

Maker:
Lilienthal, Theodore  Search this
Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
Object Name:
stereograph
Place made:
United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
Date made:
1874-1894
Subject:
Cemetery  Search this
grave  Search this
Confederacy  Search this
ID Number:
2012.3033.0063
Nonaccession number:
2012.3033
Catalog number:
2012.3033.0063
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Work and Industry: Photographic History
Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-0c40-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1852289
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The Firemens Cemetery

Maker:
Lilienthal, Theodore  Search this
Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
Object Name:
stereograph
Place made:
United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
Date made:
1854-1894
Subject:
Cemetery  Search this
grave  Search this
ID Number:
2012.3033.0065
Nonaccession number:
2012.3033
Catalog number:
2012.3033.0065
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Work and Industry: Photographic History
Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-a5d3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1852291
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Weeping Willows in cemetery

Maker:
Lilienthal, Theodore  Search this
Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
Object Name:
stereograph
Associated place:
United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
Date made:
1854-1894
Subject:
Trees  Search this
Cemetery  Search this
grave  Search this
ID Number:
2012.3033.0066
Nonaccession number:
2012.3033
Catalog number:
2012.3033.0066
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Work and Industry: Photographic History
Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-70ad-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1852292
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Old St. Louis Cemetery

Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
Object Name:
stereograph
Place made:
United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
Date made:
1850s-1860s
ID Number:
2012.3033.0085
Nonaccession number:
2012.3033
Catalog number:
2012.3033.0085
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Work and Industry: Photographic History
Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-beac-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1852311
Online Media:

George Norton Tomb [sculpture] / (photographed by Clarence John Laughlin)

Artist:
Unknown  Search this
Photographer:
Laughlin, Clarence John 1905-1985  Search this
Type:
Photograph
Date:
Ca. 1880
Topic:
Architecture--Monument--Tomb  Search this
Figure female--Full length  Search this
Image number:
SSC S0002585
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Photograph Study Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art Study Collection of American Sculpture Photographs
Data Source:
Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_jul_129302
Online Media:

George Norton Tomb [sculpture] / (photographed by Clarence John Laughlin)

Artist:
Unknown  Search this
Photographer:
Laughlin, Clarence John 1905-1985  Search this
Type:
Photograph
Date:
Ca. 1880
Topic:
Architecture--Monument--Tomb  Search this
Figure female--Full length  Search this
Image number:
SSC S0002586
See more items in:
Photograph Study Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art Study Collection of American Sculpture Photographs
Data Source:
Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_jul_129303
Online Media:

Tomb with Kneeling Woman [sculpture] / (photographed by Clarence John Laughlin)

Artist:
Unknown  Search this
Photographer:
Laughlin, Clarence John 1905-1985  Search this
Type:
Photograph
Date:
Ca. 1860
Topic:
Architecture--Monument--Tomb  Search this
Figure female--Full length  Search this
Image number:
SSC S0002587
See more items in:
Photograph Study Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art Study Collection of American Sculpture Photographs
Data Source:
Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_jul_129304
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