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Russell E. Train Africana collection

Creator:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this
Names:
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)  Search this
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926  Search this
Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875  Search this
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893  Search this
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890  Search this
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903  Search this
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955  Search this
Glave, E. J. (Edward James)  Search this
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939  Search this
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.  Search this
Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892  Search this
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919  Search this
Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917  Search this
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.  Search this
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972  Search this
Extent:
6,500 Items (estimated)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
Africa -- Maps
Africa -- description and travel
Africa -- Discovery and exploration
Africa -- In art
Date:
1663-2004
Summary:
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.
Scope and Contents note:
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa. The Train Collection is particularly strong in archival materials on the following topics: the search for the source of the Nile and the progress of other exploring expeditions in Africa; the collecting of specimens of African animals, plants, and ethnological materials for zoos and museums (including a significant body of correspondence and photographs from the Smithsonian African Expedition in 1909-1910, led by President Theodore Roosevelt); and the growth of the African wildlife conservation movement. Besides Roosevelt, the major persons represented in the Collection include the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley and members of his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, James S. Jameson, John Rose Troup, William Bonny, William G. Stairs, Edmund Barttelot, and Arthur J. M. Jephson); the medical missionary Dr. David Livingstone and his father-in-law Robert Moffat; taxidermist Carl Akeley; zoologist Edmund Heller; hunter Frederick Courtenay Selous; artist and adventure writer A. Radclyffe Dugmore; explorers Samuel White Baker, Thomas Baines, Richard Francis Burton and E.J. Glave; anthropologist Paul Belloni du Chaillu; and royal traveler Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor). Consult the finding aid for more specific information on materials relating to these persons and other people and organizations represented in the Collection.
Arrangement note:
Organized into ten series, primarily based on format or creator: I. Artifacts, 1663-1999; II. Works of Art, 1663-1999; III. Books, 1900-1986; IV. Edmund Heller personal papers, 1875-1939; V. Manuscripts, 1663-1992; VI. Maps, 1878; VII. Newspapers, 1888-1987; VIII. Robert Henry Nelson personal papers, 1795-1912; VIII. Photographs, 1874-1963; IX. Posters and broadsides, 1814-1955; X. Russell E. Train personal papers, 1956-2004.
Separated Materials note:
In addition to these archival and non-book materials, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries acquired more than 1500 printed books as part of the Russell E. Train Collection; these books are listed individually in the SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) online catalog.
Provenance:
Originally assembled by the Honorable Russell E. Train, a former judge, top administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a past president of the World Wildlife Fund, this collection was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in 2004.
Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
Topic:
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Africa  Search this
Wildlife conservation -- Africa  Search this
Natural history -- Technique  Search this
Natural history -- Africa  Search this
Hunting -- Africa  Search this
Explorers -- Africa  Search this
Identifier:
SIL-CL.XXXX-0014
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Russell E. Train Africana collection
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2dbdcfacc-0c10-4faa-80a5-7fdcab16da9c
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014
Online Media:

Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Original manuscript of his English translation from the testimony in Swahili of Stanley's "boy" Saleh Bin Osman. New York

Collection Creator:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Manuscripts (document genre), 5.5 x 9 in. (document), 9.5. x 6 in. (envelope))
Container:
Item M055
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1890 November 12
Scope and Contents note:
In his book In Darkest Africa, Stanley says "Sali, my boy, is the cleverest spy in the camp. How he obtains his information I do not know .... He is in the counsels of the captain ..... Of course he has many subordinate informers to assist." Sali's testimony regards the conduct of the naturalist and traveler James Sligo Jameson and Major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, and the decline of the Rear Guard.
General note:
Signed by Glave, and witnessed by John B. Ritchie and Major James B. Pond, the famous lecture manager who managed Stanley's lecture tours. Leaves written on one side only.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
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Russell E. Train Africana collection
Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc226520a6b-87f2-4690-9027-702a4218278b
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014-ref1634

Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Autograph letter signed to Stanley, New York

Collection Creator:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Correspondence, 8.5 x 11 in.)
Container:
Item M056
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1890 November 12
Scope and Contents note:
Relates to the conversation Glave had with Herbert Ward, traveler, artist and member of the Rear Guard, relating to the Rear Guard and Major Barttelot's conduct. "I, not having been an officer of that expedition, could say nothing from personal experience, but the spirit of Ward's conversation at all times, condemned Major Barttelot's mismanagement at Yambuya-- his harsh inhuman treatment of the Zanzibaris & Soudanes, who were lashed up and flogged for the feeblest offence, his inconsistent, high-handed and tactless dealings with Tippu Tib & his tyrannical behavior to the other white officers of the Rear Column were often mentioned."
General note:
Witnessed by Ritchie and Pond.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
See more items in:
Russell E. Train Africana collection
Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2178871af-48a1-423b-aadd-1cae1ac549ef
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014-ref1637

Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Autograph letter signed to Stanley, New York

Collection Creator:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Correspondence, 5.75 in. x 9 in. (document), 6.25 in. x 3.5 in. (envelope))
Container:
Item M057
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1890 November 12
General note:
Cover letter enclosing the above statements (M056), with a couple of corrections of previous statements concerning the number of lashes given to an African, and the time of Barttelot's death. In a James B. Pond envelope addressed by Glave to Stanley.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
See more items in:
Russell E. Train Africana collection
Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2c687e25e-c485-453f-9398-01ae5b49b3ba
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014-ref1640

Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Autograph letter signed to Major B. Pond, "North End" of Nyassa Lake

Collection Creator:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Correspondence, 4.5 x 7 in.)
Container:
Item M058
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1894 May 2
Scope and Contents note:
Glave asks Pond how he is doing and tells him he expects to be back in the States in the spring of 1895 "if my breath is not cut off at the meter.... I must say, I am not dead in love with Africa, I believe I could worry along allright (sic) in civilization without a return trip to the country..."
General note:
Incidentally, Stanley wrote Glave's mother on 21 June 1895 an 8 page letter containing a eulogy on the occasion of Glave's death.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
See more items in:
Russell E. Train Africana collection
Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc230153f9f-b75e-43c9-882b-6080ff1bd788
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014-ref1642

Glave, E. J. (Edward James). Autograph letter signed to Major James B. Pond, St. Paul, Minnesota

Collection Creator:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Correspondence, 6 x 9.5 in.)
Container:
Item M059
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1890 October 8
Scope and Contents note:
A chatty letter about Glave's travels to Alaska and news that he will be going to New York.
General note:
On Hotel Ryan stationery.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
See more items in:
Russell E. Train Africana collection
Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2182d0344-4d82-43c1-9b6b-b2eb2556646c
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014-ref1645

Six years of adventure in Congo-land / by E.J. Glave ; with an introduction by H.M. Stanley ; illustrated

Title:
In savage Africa
Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James)  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Dundas, Charles Sir 1884-1956 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904  Search this
Physical description:
[6], [11]-247 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map, port. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Date:
1893
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT351 .G53 1893
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_899710

E. J. Glave original manuscript of his English translation from the testimony in Swahili of Stanley's "boy" Saleh Bin Osman. New York, 12 November 1890

Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James)  Search this
Active 1890:
Saleh bin Osman  Search this
Author:
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave 1859-1888  Search this
Glave, E. J (Edward James) Six years of adventure in Congo-land  Search this
Jameson, James S (James Sligo) 1856-1888  Search this
Ritchie, John B. active 1890  Search this
Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Correspondent:
Pond, James B (James Burton) 1838-1903  Search this
Physical description:
1 item (32 pages) 5.5 x 9 in. (document), 9.5. x 6 in. (envelope)
Type:
Manuscripts
Manuscripts (document genre)
Place:
Africa
Date:
1890
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Discoveries in geography  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
M055
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1043013

The slave-trade in the Congo Basin by one of Stanley's pioneer officers ; illustrated after sketches from life by the author

Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James)  Search this
Physical description:
pages 824-838 illustrations 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Congo River Valley
Date:
1890
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
Call number:
DT639 .G55 1890
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1005301

E. J. Glave autograph letter signed to Major James B. Pond, St. Paul, Minnesota, 8 October 1890

Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James)  Search this
Correspondent:
Pond, James B (James Burton) 1838-1903  Search this
Author:
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Glave, E. J (Edward James) Travel  Search this
Physical description:
1 item (4 pages) 6 x 9.5 in
Type:
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Place:
Africa
Date:
1890
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Discoveries in geography  Search this
Travel  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
M059
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1043017

E. J. Glave autograph letter signed to Major B. Pond, "North End" of Nyassa Lake, 2 May 1894

Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James)  Search this
Correspondent:
Pond, James B (James Burton) 1838-1903  Search this
Author:
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
1 item (3 pages) 4.5 x 7 in
Type:
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Place:
Africa
Date:
1894
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Discoveries in geography  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
M058
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1043016

E. J. Glave autograph letter signed to Stanley, New York, 12 November 1890

Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James))  Search this
Author:
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave 1859-1888  Search this
Pond, James B (James Burton) 1838-1903  Search this
Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)  Search this
Physical description:
1 item (2 pages) ; 5.75 in. x 9 in. (document), 6.25 in. x 3.5 in. (envelope)
Type:
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Place:
Africa
Date:
1890
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
M057
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1043015

E. J. Glave autograph letter signed to Stanley, New York, 12 November 1890

Author:
Glave, E. J (Edward James)  Search this
Author:
Tippu Tip 1837-1905  Search this
Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave 1859-1888  Search this
Ritchie, John B. active 1890  Search this
Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904  Search this
Ward, Herbert 1863-1919  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Correspondent:
Pond, James B (James Burton) 1838-1903  Search this
Physical description:
1 item (2 pages) 8.5 x 11 in
Type:
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Place:
Africa
Date:
1890
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Discoveries in geography  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
M056
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1043014

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