Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
Collection is open for research but Series 11 and films are stored off-site. Special arrangements must be made to view some of the audiovisual materials. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
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Extent:
2 Video recordings
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Scope and Contents:
Tina Rudasingwa Family Home Movies consist of gatherings of family and friends for birthday parties, school musical performances, and commencement ceremonies. Additionally, the movies contain footage of Girl Scout ceremonies and a wake for a deceased family member.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is available online for open research.
Collection Rights:
The Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
Copyright for all works are retained by the creators of the original analog materials. Permissions for any use of the material may be requested from National Museum of African American History and Culture Right and Reproductions 202-633-3846.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Supported by the Robert Frederick Smith Fund of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Sponsor:
This project received support from the Robert Frederick Smith Fund of the National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Photographs compiled by Frederick K. Morris documenting his travels in China, 1920-1923; Mongolia, 1922-1923; and Japan and Korea, 1923 and 1925. The photographs were made or collected by Frederick and Florence Morris in Shanghai, Yokohama (after an eathquake), Tianjin, Beijing, Zhangjiakou, Kyoto, Nara, Nikko, Seul, and Kaijo, as well as various villages. They depict scenery, cities, clothing, transportation (including rickshaws, boats, and animals), fishing, peddlers, tradesmen and craftsmen, students, Pei Yang University, the tomb of Confucius, ceremonies and festivals, agriculture, and tourist sites such as the Great Wall and palaces. The collection also includes photographs of the Morris family, their friends, and personnel of the Third Asiatic Expedition. A few newspaper clippings, postcard, sketches, and souvenirs are also in the albums.
Biographical/Historical note:
Dr. Frederick Kuhn Morris (1885-1962) was a geologist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He first visited China as a visiting professor at Pei Yang University (Bei yang shi fan xue tang) at Tianjin from 1920-1921. Joining the American Museum of Natural History's third Central Asiatic Expedition (circa 1925) as the expedition's geologist, Morris assisted expedition leader Roy Chapman Andrews to collect natural history specimens in Northern China and Mongolia.
50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)
1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))
239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))
96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)
Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School.
Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys.
Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.
Biographical/Historical note:
George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photographs made by Petrus Buleni Fau documenting the funeral ceremony for Samogo Fau, a noble elder of Bawomataluo village in South Nias. They include images of processionals, spectators, and Fau's grave.
Biographical/Historical note:
Jerome Feldman, who collected the photographs, is a professor of art history at Hawaii Pacific University, Hawaii Loa campus. He specializes in tribal Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands and conducted field studies in remote islands of Indonesia and Polynesia. He also helped design several exhibitions about the area including the Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara's "Nias Tribal Treasures" and the Smithsonian-sponsored "Beyond the Java Sea."
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 88-31
Reproduction Note:
Copy slides made by Smithsonian Institution, 1988.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of Nias people donated by Jerome Feldman can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 90-28.
Printed caption on recto reads: "Ashanti Mourns Prempeh II; Spokesman (Okyeame) and Staff of office."
Manuscript message, address, and postmarked postage stamp on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA GH-23-05
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Printed caption on verso reads: "Africa - An altar to the departed high chief."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "This is a Genuine Photograph; PostCard Grogan Photo Company; Danville, Ill."
Local Numbers:
EEPA GH-23-07
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Printed text on verso reads: "Edition au profit de la 'Semaine des Petits Malgaches'."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-01
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Original caption reads, "Madagascar - East Coast - Tying Up of a horizontal Body." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Tamatave, Madagascar, 16 August 1906."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-02
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Original caption reads, "South Madagascar - Scenes of Malagasy Life - Funeral Convoy." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Majunga, Madagascar, 23 December 19[??]."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Comptoir Photographique G Bodemer - Majunga."
Original hand-written address on verso, "Madame et Monsieur Grouzat. Chez Mme Farbefuille Toulouse."
Original hand-written text on recto, "Despite my silence dear friend I have forgotten neither you nor your loved ones. Tell me at length about all. With affections and best wishes for the new year. Your devoted. E. Pillaud. Majunga, Madagascar."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-03
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Original caption reads, "Madagascar - Tanala Transporting a Body in the Forest, to the Ancestral tombs." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Madagascar, 1904."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Couadou, phot., Toulon-sur-Mer."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-04
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Original caption reads, "Tomb of a Bara Sorcerer - S. O. Madagascar."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Comptoir Photographique G Bodemer - Majunga."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-05
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Original caption reads, "South Madagascar - Bara Sacrificing to the Sprits of the Dead." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Tananarive, Madagascar, 14 December 1903."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Couadou, phot., Toulon-sur-Mer."
Original hand-written address on verso, "Madame Charles Gallot. 11 Boulevard South Paris 12e."
Original hand-written text on recto, "Tananarive 14 December 1903."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-06
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Original caption reads, "East Coast of Madagascar "Tsikofura" - Sacrifice of an Ox on the occasion of the Deceased."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Edition G. M. L."
Original hand-written text on recto, "22/ 9/ 09. My dear... I did receive your long and friendly letter which as usual was most welcome. In my voluntary exile in the middle of the Malagasy Bush far from the city noise and any civilization (which is not necessarily to be regretted) I feel a bit lonely at times - Life there is without constraints, undoubtedly. This great liberty, so much sought after, is not to be sniffed at but one tries of everything even of comforts because I have never been happier. I find that life is monotonous and empty which well proves that one is never truly happy me wishes always something. At this time I wish I had my bicycle to be able to make long rides but here is the catch : the bicycle might still be easy to procure but as to roads there are none. I speak about the area where i live because certain important centres of Madagascar, Tananarive, Tamatave, Majunga, etc. are better off and already have some stretches of road. I am mailing this postcard to your office. You probably have resumed going there a long time ago. I wish you well for your long walks, so interesting . I hope that you had the good thought of keeping a diary of your travels, noting regularly your impressions of the day. With the writing skills I know you to have, and the travels that you make that would not fail to be interesting. Good health, my dear..., many good things from me to your family. Accept my friendship at the same time as a cordial handshake.
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-23-07
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed text on verso reads: "La veillée du mort chez le Bateke. / Het doodenbewaken bij de Bateke." Translated postcard caption reads: "Vigil for the dead among the Bateke."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Document Musée Congo. Photo Expédition Maes / Ern. Thill, Bruxelles." Publisher's logo on verso: "Nels."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-23-04
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
