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Sculptor:

Clark, Allan 1896/98-1950  Search this

Subject:

Pasteur, Louis  Search this

Alighieri, Dante  Search this

Shakespeare, William  Search this

Plato  Search this

Franklin, Benjamin  Search this

Justinian  Search this

Newton, Isaac  Search this

Leonardo da Vinci  Search this

Galilei, Galileo  Search this

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von  Search this

Herodotus  Search this

Smith, Adam  Search this

Homer  Search this

Gutenberg, Johannes  Search this

Beethoven, Ludwig van  Search this

Darwin, Charles  Search this

Grotius, Hugo  Search this

Medium:

Terra cotta

Culture:

French  Search this

Italian  Search this

British  Search this

Greek  Search this

Roman  Search this

Scottish  Search this

German  Search this

Dutch  Search this

Type:

Sculptures-Architectural component

Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture

Sculptures

Owner/Location:

Administered by University of Washington Public Art Administration Seattle Washington 98195

Located University of Washington Suzzallo Library Seattle Washington

Date:

1922-1924

Topic:

Religion--Old Testament--Moses  Search this

Religion--Old Testament--Ten Commandments  Search this

Portrait male--Full length  Search this

Portrait male--Full Length  Search this

Occupation--Science--Chemist  Search this

Occupation--Science--Biologist  Search this

Occupation--Writer--Poet  Search this

Occupation--Writer--Playwright  Search this

Occupation--Writer--Dramatist  Search this

Occupation--Education--Philosopher  Search this

Occupation--Political--Diplomat  Search this

Occupation--Political--Statesman  Search this

Occupation--Science--Inventor  Search this

Occupation--Political--Postmaster  Search this

Occupation--Writer--Author  Search this

Occupation--Industry--Printing  Search this

Occupation--Other--Aristocrat  Search this

Occupation--Law  Search this

Occupation--Art--Painter  Search this

Occupation--Art--Sculptor  Search this

Occupation--Science--Astronomer  Search this

Occupation--Science--Mathematician  Search this

Occupation--Science--Physicist  Search this

Occupation--Writer--Novelist  Search this

Occupation--Education--Historian  Search this

Occupation--Monetary--Economist  Search this

Occupation--Science--Evolutionist  Search this

Performing Arts--Music  Search this

State of Being--Disabled--Deaf  Search this

Ethnic  Search this

Control number:

IAS 76009243

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_19965

Creator:

Smithsonian Libraries  Search this

Type:

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2015-01-20T21:47:26.000Z

YouTube Category:

Nonprofits & Activism  Search this

Topic:

Library science  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianLibraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_2Gc2YYPow6c

Creator:

Smithsonian Libraries  Search this

Type:

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-12-02T15:48:28.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Library science  Search this

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SmithsonianLibraries

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianLibraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_6LJmLTB2Hw0

Creator:

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-06-24T13:00:03.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Art, modern  Search this

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hirshhornmuseum

Data Source:

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

YouTube Channel:

hirshhornmuseum

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_8uLSO22l1E8

Creator:

Smithsonian Channel  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2013-06-05T14:00:53.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

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smithsonianchannel

Data Source:

Smithsonian Channel

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianchannel

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edanmdm:yt_Mn-a_ImLR40

Collection Creator:

Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet (Box 1, 13, 15)

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1872-1965

Scope and Contents:

Most of the biographical material concerns Harry Siddons Mowbray's career as an artist. Found are admissions tickets, menus, programs, and invitations to dedication ceremonies in Washington D.C.; Atelier Bonnant acceptance material; awards; and World War I support material given to Mowbray in thanks for his participation in advocating for the United States' involvement in the war. Other materials include biographical sketches; Mowbray's marriage certificate with his second wife, Florence; obituaries and estate papers; travel papers; and West Point acceptance material and discharge papers. George Mowbray's pocket chemist book is also found.

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Harry Siddons Mowbray and Mowbray family papers, 1872-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.mowbharr, Series 1

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ccb19801-4539-472b-ae7c-d326a166ffef

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-mowbharr-ref1

Collection Creator:

Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 21

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1883

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Harry Siddons Mowbray and Mowbray family papers, 1872-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

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Harry Siddons Mowbray and Mowbray family papers

Harry Siddons Mowbray and Mowbray family papers / Series 1: Biographical Information

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bf1d5e15-fd48-47d0-9fac-cd098569f07e

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-mowbharr-ref21

Creator:

Committee on Jobs for Negroes in Public Utilities (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Names:

Committee on Fair Employment Practices  Search this

Collection Collector:

Whitehead, Henry Preston, 1917-2002  Search this

Extent:

1 Document (11 1/2 x 9 inches)

Container:

Box 158, Folder 8

Type:

Archival materials

Documents

Fliers (printed matter)

Place:

Washington (D.C.)

Date:

circa 1943

Collection Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.

Topic:

Discrimination in employment  Search this

Genre/Form:

Fliers (printed matter)

Collection Citation:

Henry P. Whitehead collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Michael A. Watkins.

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Henry P. Whitehead collection / Series 3: Tomlinson D. Todd / 3.7: Subject Files / Committee on Jobs for Negroes in Public Utilities

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7bdf0172c-8dc5-43dd-9b04-2bc83574250f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-acma-06-042-ref1911

Creator:

Tainter, Charles Sumner, 1854-1940  Search this

Hartsook Studio (San Diego, Calif.)  Search this

Names:

American Graphophone Company  Search this

Clark, Alvin and Sons Company  Search this

Edison Phonograph Works  Search this

International Graphophone Company  Search this

Volta Graphophone Gompany  Search this

Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922  Search this

Bell, Chichester  Search this

Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929  Search this

Former owner:

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Electricity and Modern Physics  Search this

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

Extent:

2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Laboratory notebooks

Date:

1878-1937

Summary:

Charles Sumner Tainter has been recognized as the father of the talking machine, and much of the material in this collection represents his experimental work on the graphophone. Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Tainter established the Volta Laboratory Association in 1881. This collection presents a comprehensive picture of the early development of the phonograph and Tainter's substantial contributions to the project.

Scope and Contents:

Charles Sumner Tainter has been recognized as the father of the talking machine, and much of the material in this collection represents his experimental work on the graphophone.

Alexander Graham Bell, in partnership with his cousin Chichester Bell, and Tainter, established the Volta Laboratory Association in 1881, which stayed in operation until 1885. During this time Tainter recorded his experiments on the graphophone in thirteen note books or "Home Notes" and in two large volumes of technical drawings and notes. One of these volumes contains very exact drawings for a multiple record duplicator (1897-1908); the other contains rough sketches of his experiments with various apparatuses (1883-1884).

Tainter also wrote an unpublished, undated manuscript on The Talking Machine and Some Little Known Facts in Connection with Its Early Development. Another document consists of a binder with the printed patent specifications of Tainter, Alexander Graham Bell, and Chichester Bell (1880-1903). All of these documents are contained within this collection, except Volumes 9, 10, and 13 of Tainter's "Home Notes" which were destroyed in a fire in Tainter's Laboratory in Washington, D.C., in September 1897. The other ten volumes were needed in a law suit and were in possession of his attorney at the time of the fire. Records of Court testimony in suits involving the phonograph (1894-1896) are also included in this collection.

Tainter's memoirs, Early History of Charles Sumner Tainter provide a personal account of his childhood and youth, and of his later role as a member of the U. S. Government Expedition to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. Certificates, photographs, clippings, some correspondence, handwritten notes, and articles on the history of the phonograph complete the collection of his papers.

Arrangement:

The collection is divided into three series:

Series 1, Papers, 1878-1937

Series 2, Laboratory Notes, 1881-1908

Series 3, Artifacts, undated

Biographical / Historical:

Charles Sumner Tainter, son of George and Abigail Sanger Tainter, was born on April 25, 1854, in Watertown, Massachusetts, near Boston. His father was an inventor with several patents to his name. In his memoirs Tainter describes his father as "a man of much force of character and inventive ability" and his mother as, "a woman of high character and beloved by all." His school years left him with a terror of public speaking that followed him all his life. He completed public school without much enthusiasm and then became essentially self-educated, studying only subjects that interested him. He obtained scientific and technical books from the public library, and was an avid reader of Scientific American. In his memoirs he recalls: "I believe that this journal had a great influence in molding my thoughts in mechanical and scientific directions as I grew up with it and used to read it regularly."

In 1870 Tainter started to work for Charles Williams, Jr., a manufacturer of telegraphs and electrical apparatus in Boston, for five dollars a week. Two years later he became associated with Johnson and Whittlemore, manufacturers of electrical instruments in Boston. He stayed with them until the business folded in 1873, and then joined Alvan Clark and Sons, a well-known manufacturing company of large telescopes and optical instruments in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. As a technician at the Alvan Clark and Sons Company, Tainter assisted with the building of the Equatorial Telescope mounted in the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. He also constructed much of the equipment that was used during the U.S. government expedition to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific on December 8, 1874. The Secretary of the Navy appointed Tainter a member of this expedition, and Tainter vividly reveals his role in the event in his memoirs: "Early History of Charles Sumner Tainter." See Series 1, Box 1. [Note: Henry Draper, (1837 1882), a scientist whose collection of papers are also stored in the Archives Center, Series 3, Box 6, was superintendent of the government commission for the observation of the transit of Venus.] After he returned from the expedition in 1875, Tainter rejoined Alvan Clark and Sons Company and stayed there for three years.

Tainter started his own business in 1878 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, constructing scientific instruments. It was in Cambridgeport, that he met Alexander Graham Bell. A year later Tainter accepted Bell's proposal to join him in Washington, D.C. to establish a small laboratory. After a series of experiments they developed the radiophone, an instrument for transmitting sound to distant points through the agency of light, using sensitive selenium cells. The radiophone was shown at an electrical exhibition in Paris in 1881, where Tainter was awarded a gold medal and diploma for his part in the invention. Between 1879 and 1880, Tainter and Bell also experimented with and tried to improve on Edison's talking machine.

The Academie des Sciences of Paris awarded Bell the Volta prize in 1880 for his development of the telephone. The prize included $10,000 that Bell used a year later to establish the Volta Laboratory Association, a small research laboratory in Washington, D.C. He asked his cousin, Chichester A. Bell, a chemist from London, and Tainter to join him in this venture. Although they devoted much of their attention to electrical and acoustical research, most of their efforts went into the improvement of Edison's talking machine. Edison had used tinfoil as the recording medium for his first phonograph in 1877, but then abandoned the project and turned his attention to the electric light and power distribution system. Meanwhile, Chichester Bell and Tainter saw the fragile tinfoil as a major obstacle in any further development of the instrument, and after much experimenting came upon the idea of replacing the tinfoil with a wax compound onto which they could engrave the sound waves directly. This invention was patented in May 1886 under the name Graphophone. It was an important step in the development of the phonograph since for the first time it was possible to manufacture the device commercially. Tainter recorded his experiments on the graphophone in thirteen notebooks ("Home Notes") and two large volumes of technical drawings and sketches. See: Series 2, Boxes 1, 2, and 3.

Bell and Tainter recognized Edison as the inventor of the talking machine, and they wanted to work with him and carry the costs for all further experiments in exchange for half the share of the profits, but Edison rejected this proposal. He felt that they wanted to steal his invention. In 1885 the partnership between Bell, his cousin, and Tainter was dissolved, and the graphophone rights were given to a group of Washington court stenographers who felt that the graphophone could best be utilized as a dictaphone. The group subsequently formed the Volta graphophone Company where Tainter continued to work for several years. The Volta Graphophone Company was reorganized two years after its formation as the American Graphophone Company. Eventually Edison sued the Volta Graphophone Company (1894), and the American Graphophone Company (1895-96).

In June 1886 Tainter married Lila R. Munro, daughter of William J. Munro of Newport, Rhode Island. Two years later he suffered a severe case of pneumonia, which was to incapacitate him intermittently for the rest of his life.

The Volta Graphophone Company sold the foreign rights for the graphophone in the spring of 1889 to form the International Graphophone Company. Tainter became associated with this new company and went to Europe to look after its interests there. In the same year the graphophone was exhibited at the Paris Exposition and Tainter was awarded the Decoration of "Officier de L Instruction Publique" from the French government for his invention of the graphophone. Upon his return from Europe Tainter established a factory for the International Graphophone Company in Hartford, Connecticut in 1889. When he left the company in 1890, he launched his own laboratory in Washington, D.C., where he continued to improve on the phonograph and a number of new inventions were patented.

At the Chicago Exposition in 1893 Tainter was asked to manage the exhibition of more than a hundred machines for the American Graphophone Company. In 1897 a fire destroyed Tainter's Washington laboratory and much valuable material was lost, including three volumes of his "Home Notes", which contained some of the findings of his experiments on the graphophone. Three years later the city of Philadelphia awarded the John Scott medal to Chichester Bell and Tainter for their work in connection with the graphophone.

Tainter's chronic illness forced him to suspend his work frequently and seek treatment and relief in various sanatoria and spas both in Europe and in the United States. He and his wife eventually moved to California. They settled in San Diego in June of 1903 to enjoy the better climate there. Again Tainter established a laboratory and continued to work whenever his health allowed. In 1915 he was awarded a gold medal and diploma for his work with the graphophone at the San Francisco Exposition. Tainter's wife died in 1924. Four years later he married Laura Fontaine Onderdonk, widow of Charles G. Onderdonk.

At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh in December 1934, Tainter was made an Emeritus Life Member, having been a fellow for 55 years. His obituary also mentions that in 1915 Tainter was awarded a gold medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition for his work on the graphophone.

Tainter died on April 20, 1940. He was considered an inventor, a physicist, and a manufacturer of electrical apparatus, but most of all he was known as the father of the talking machine.

Separated Materials:

Materials Located at the National Museum of American History

Medal award given to Charles Sumner Tainter, Exposition Internationale d'Electricite, Paris, 1881. See Accession #: ME*313452.02

Gold medal award given to Charles Sumner Tainter. Panama - Pacific Exposition, 1915. See Accession #: ME*313452.01

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Laura F. Tainter, Charles Sumner Tainter's widow, in 1947 and 1950.

Restrictions:

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

Rights:

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

Topic:

Physicists  Search this

Inventors  Search this

Electrical engineers  Search this

Light machinery  Search this

Mechanical engineering  Search this

Dictating machine  Search this

Sound recording and reproduction  Search this

Talking machine  Search this

Phonograph  Search this

Genre/Form:

Laboratory notebooks

Citation:

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

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0124

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Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8887378c2-5b90-4839-90fc-901c69375fb7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0124

Maker:

Bunge, Paul  Search this

Measurements:

box: 5 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 9.525 cm x 4.445 cm

overall in box: 1 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 4 in; 4.445 cm x 13.6525 cm x 10.16 cm

Object Name:

Weights

Object Type:

Weights

Place made:

Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg

Credit Line:

Gift of Dr. Nelson K. Richtmyer

ID Number:

CH.315365

Accession number:

219307

Catalog number:

315365

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Medicine and Science: Chemistry

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-5743-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1784

Maker:

United States Torsion Balance Co.  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 4 1/2 in x 10 in x 5 in; 11.43 cm x 25.4 cm x 12.7 cm

overall: 5 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 26.67 cm x 11.43 cm

Object Name:

torsion balance

Object Type:

Balances

Place made:

United States: New York, New York City

Date made:

1886-1887

Subject:

Weights & Measures  Search this

ID Number:

CH.318490

Catalog number:

318490

Accession number:

235073

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e02d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_2333

Maker:

Kohlbusch, Herman  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 15.5575 cm x 6.985 cm

overall: 1 9/16 in x 2 11/16 in x 6 1/8 in; 3.96875 cm x 6.82625 cm x 15.5575 cm

overall: 6 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm

Object Name:

balance

Date made:

late 19th century

Subject:

Weights & Measures  Search this

Credit Line:

University of Pennsylvania

ID Number:

CH.M-09312

Accession number:

218383

Catalog number:

M-09312

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-a02d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_376195

Collector:

Leonard, Eugene O.  Search this

Publisher:

Albertype Co.  Search this

Cardinell-Vincent Co.  Search this

Detroit Photographic Co.  Search this

Detroit Publishing Co.  Search this

H.G. Zimmerman & Co.  Search this

J.L. Robbins Co.  Search this

Newman Postcard Co.  Search this

The Rotograph Co.  Search this

Union Pacific Railroad Company  Search this

Van Ornum Colorprint Co.  Search this

Andrews, Wesley  Search this

Mitchell, Edward H.  Search this

Tammen, Harry Heye, 1856-1924  Search this

Thayer, Frank S.  Search this

Photographer:

Bennett's Lightning Portraits  Search this

Eastman Kodak Company  Search this

Hedum and Bishop  Search this

Newcomb Bros.  Search this

Rodgers and Newing  Search this

Todd Photograhic Co.  Search this

William L. Koehne Studio  Search this

Ahuja, D. A.  Search this

Cobb, George N.  Search this

Gifford, Benjamin A.  Search this

Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

McEvoy, J. J.  Search this

Rise, Carl H., 1888-1939  Search this

Rothrock, George H.  Search this

Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909  Search this

Vroman, A. C. (Adam Clark), 1856-1916  Search this

Weitfle, Charles, 1836-1921  Search this

Wrensted, Benedicte, 1859-1949  Search this

Names:

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Fort Hall Agency  Search this

Leonard, Robert M. (photo album compiler and donor)  Search this

Extent:

4 Glass positives

6 Prints and postcards (photogravure)

1 Tintype

100 Negatives (photographic) (circa, glass)

220 Copy prints (circa)

9 Prints and postcards (cyanotype)

99 Items (99 photomechanical prints and postcards, halftone, color halftone, collotype, photgravure)

1000 Negatives (photographic) (circa, nitrate)

734 Photographic prints (circa, silver gelatin, albumen, and platinum (including photographic postcards and cabinet cards))

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Bannock  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Tewa Pueblos  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Glass positives

Prints and postcards

Tintypes

Negatives (photographic)

Copy prints

Photographic prints

Postcards

Photographs

Place:

Soda Springs (Idaho)

Yellowstone National Park

Fort Hall Indian Reservation (Idaho)

Pocatello (Idaho)

Shoshone Falls (Idaho)

Date:

circa 1880-1920

Scope and Contents note:

Unbound album pages (labeled A through Q) with photographs documenting the people and culture of the Pocatello-Fort Hall area, including Native Americanss (particularly Shoshone-Bannock tribes), agency employees, and missionaries. Included are images of encampments, Sun Dance ceremonies, the Fort Hall Agency, Indian schools and churches, the Run for Fort Hall Lands on June 17, 1902, the War Bonnett Roundup at Idaho Falls, Shoshone Falls and other natural features and landscapes, a large number of street and aerial views of Pocatello, A. L. Cook's drug store in Pocatello, and members of the Cook family. In addition, there are photographs of Nez Perce, Hopi, San Juan, and Navaho Indians, and one image of the Lapps Indians at Port Townsend, Washington. A large number of the photographs were made by Benedicte Wrensted.

The albums were compiled by Robert Leonard, Eugene O. Leonard's son, who also made copy prints of many of the photographs and negatives. They include flyers, newspapers, envelopes, and other scraps collected by Leonard.

Biographical/Historical note:

Eugene O. Leonard (1884-1964) moved to Pocatello, Idaho, in 1893 to live with his aunt, the widow of A. L. Cook and owner of the Cook building and drugstore. Leonard attended Weiser College and Academy (now College of Idaho), Whitman College, and Northwestern University. He acquired degrees in phamacy and pharmaceutical chemistry from Northwestern University, and a degree in assaying studies from the Chicago College of Chemistry. After graduation from the College in 1908, Leonard returned to Pocatello to manage the Cook Drug Store until 1918. He worked as Pocatello City Chemist and set up the College of Pharmacy at Idaho State College, where he also taught and served as dean (1918-1954). In the 1930s, Leonard obtained a MS and PhD from Utah State University. Possibly encouraged by his collector aunt, Leonard established a collection of Native material culture objects and documentations, including artifacts and these photograhs, based on his interest in the Shoshoni and Bannock tribes at nearby Fort Hall.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 92-3

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The Idaho Museum of Natural History at Idaho State University holds artifacts collected by Eugene O. Leonard.

The Bannock County Historical Museum in Pocatello holds the Leonard Family Papers, 1893-1917.

Restrictions:

Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing. Many have associated prints.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Pharmacy  Search this

Sun Dance  Search this

Schools  Search this

Camps  Search this

Dance  Search this

Genre/Form:

Postcards

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 92-3, Eugene O. Leonard photograph collection relating to Pocatello and Fort Hall, Idaho, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.92-3

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw394251ebd-92a7-490d-9df2-30dbe642b024

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-92-3

Medium:

Print, Aquatint on Paper, Colored

Dimensions:

Mat: 25.4 × 30.5cm (10 × 12 in.)

Unmatted: 8.6 × 16.2cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

Type:

ART-Prints, Original

Credit Line:

Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

Inventory Number:

A20140392005

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv980de926f-9977-4bac-9c1d-3537856ebbf5

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A20140392005

Measurements:

overall: 1 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 4.1275 cm x 1.5875 cm

Object Name:

litmus paper

ID Number:

MG.302606.400

Catalog number:

302606.400

Accession number:

302606

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-76f4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1415831

Maker:

Randall-Faichney Company  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1.905 cm

Object Name:

Syringe

Other Terms:

Syringe; Hypodermic

Credit Line:

Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery

ID Number:

MG.291116.400

Accession number:

291116

Catalog number:

291116.400

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-1853-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_730939

Creator:

Artists Talk on Art  Search this

Names:

Barnet, Will, 1911-2012  Search this

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010  Search this

Christo, 1935-  Search this

De Niro, Robert, Sr., 1922-1993  Search this

Denes, Agnes  Search this

Goldberg, Michael, 1924-2007  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009  Search this

Longo, Robert  Search this

Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985  Search this

Morris, Robert, 1931-2018  Search this

Murray, Elizabeth, 1940-  Search this

Neel, Alice, 1900-1984  Search this

Pavia, Philip, 1915-2005  Search this

Sleigh, Sylvia  Search this

Wilke, Hannah  Search this

Wojnarowicz, David  Search this

Extent:

64.4 Linear feet

317.43 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Photographs

Sound recordings

Scrapbooks

Transcripts

Video recordings

Date:

circa 1974-2018

Summary:

The records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) measure 64.4 linear feet and 317.43 gigabytes and date from circa 1974-2018. The bulk of the records consist of extensive video and sound recordings of events organized by the group featuring artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators and writers discussing contemporary issues in the American art world in hundreds of panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. Events began in 1975 and continue to the present; recordings in the collection date from 1977 and 2016. A smaller group of records include administrative files, panel flyers, three scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panel discussions and participants.

Scope and Contents:

The records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) measure 64.4 linear feet and 317.43 gigabytes and date from circa 1974-2018. The bulk of the records consist of extensive video and sound recordings of events organized by the group featuring artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators and writers discussing contemporary issues in the American art world in hundreds of panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. Events began in 1975 and continue to the present; recordings in the collection date from 1977 and 2016. A smaller group of records include administrative files, panel flyers, three scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panel discussions and participants.

ATOA's recordings chronicle the American art world, covering critical discussions and significant art world issues over five decades. Thousands of artists such as Will Barnet, Louise Bourgeois, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Robert De Niro, Agnes Denes, Michael Goldberg, Robert Longo, Ana Mendieta, Robert Morris, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Philip Pavia, Howardena Pindell, Larry Rivers, Sylvia Sleigh, Kahinde Wiley, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz, and others speak about their work. The original recordings exist in a variety of formats, including U-Matic and VHS videotape, MiniDVs, sound cassettes and sound tape reels. ATOA digitized most of the video and sound recordings prior to donating the collection.

The collection also includes printed histories, board and program committee meeting minutes, financial statements, general correspondence files of the president and chair, attendance statistics, grant files, panel participant release forms, sixteen panel transcripts, a complete set of panel flyers (many are annotated) and other printed materials, three dismantled scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panels and panel participants.

Arrangement:

The records are arranged into nine series.

Series 1: Adminstrative Files, 1974-2013 (0.4 linear feet, Box 1)

Series 2: Director's and Chairman's Correspondence, 1977-2006 (0.4 linear feet, Box 1)

Series 3: Grant Files, 1977-2009 (1 linear foot, Boxes 1-2)

Series 4: Panel Release Forms, 1978-2012 (1 linear foot, Boxes 2-3)

Series 5: Panel Transcripts, 1981, 1986, 1988, 2017-2018 (1 folder, Box 3; 0.002 GB, ER01)

Series 6: Printed Materials, 1975-2015 (0.8 linear feet, Boxes 3-4; 0.434 GB, ER02)

Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1975-1989 (0.2 linear feet, Box 4)

Series 8: Photographic Materials, circa 1975-circa 2000 (1 linear foot, Boxes 4-5)

Series 9: Video and Sound Recordings of Events, 1977-2016 (59 linear feet, Boxes 6-65; 317.43 GB, ER03-ER04)

Biographical / Historical:

Established in 1974 and still active in New York, Artists Talk on Art is the art world's longest running and most prolific aesthetic panel discussion series organized by artists for artists. Founded by Lori Antonacci, Douglas I. Sheer, and Robert Wiegand, the forum has presented 6,000 artists in nearly 1,000 documented panels or dialogues. ATOA held its first panel, "Whatever Happened to Public Art," on January 10, 1975 and it drew a "crowd" of 77 people. In the decades that followed, ATOA presented dozens of panels or dialogues a year, tackling such diverse topics as "What is Happening with Conceptual Art," with Louise Lawler and Lawrence Weiner; "Painting and Photography: Defining the Difference," with Sarah Charlesworth, Jack Goldstein, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, and Robert Mapplethorpe; "Organizing Arts Activism," with Lucy Lippard; "The Artist and the Epidemic—an information panel about AIDS"; "Cross-generational Views of Feminism"; and hundreds more.

Provenance:

The Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) records, including digital files of the video and sound recordings, were donated to the Archives in 2016 by Douglas Sheer, Chairman of ATOA.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Art critics  Search this

Art dealers  Search this

Art historians  Search this

Artists  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Historians  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sound recordings

Scrapbooks

Transcripts

Video recordings

Citation:

Artists Talk on Art records, circa 1974-2018. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.artitalk

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c4de66ef-397b-4e6e-9fde-d6deca12fa3a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-artitalk

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution Archives  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-08-12T23:29:30.000Z

YouTube Category:

Science & Technology  Search this

Topic:

Museum administration  Search this

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SIArchives

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

YouTube Channel:

SIArchives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_1fEzzRV9b1M

Measurements:

overall: 1 1/2 in x 31 3/4 in x 25 7/8 in; 3.81 cm x 80.645 cm x 65.7225 cm

Object Name:

display, poisoning, evidence

ID Number:

MG.052207.01

Accession number:

52207

Catalog number:

52207.01

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-fca2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1456646

Maker:

Keuffel & Esser Co.  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 320 mm x 51 mm x 12 mm; 12 5/8 in x 2 in x 1/2 in

overall: 12 1/2 in x 2 in x 7/16 in; 31.75 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.11125 cm

Object Name:

Slide Rule, Chemical

Place made:

United States

Date made:

after 1933

ID Number:

CH.337236

Catalog number:

337236

Accession number:

1979.0768

Patent number:

1,930,852

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Medicine and Science: Chemistry

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e409-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_3026