23 Photomechanical prints (halftone, photogravure, and collotype)
152 Photographic prints (silver gelatin and albumen)
8 Copy prints
6 Copy negatives
1 Print (offset lithography)
1 Print (probably chromolithograph)
11 Negatives (acetate)
3 Drawings
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Photomechanical prints
Photographic prints
Copy prints
Copy negatives
Negatives
Drawings
Photographs
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs relating to physical anthropologists from the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. Many of the photographs depict Smithsonian staff, particularly Ales Hrdlicka and T. Dale Stewart, as well as people and artifacts relating to physical anthropology throughout history. Some of the portraits are signed and the collection also includes pamphlets from professional societies, prints mounted for publication, a copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun relating to Adolph Schultz, and some correspondence.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4822
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds the Ales Hrdlicka papers, Thomas Dale Stewart papers, and John Lawrence Angel papers.
Additional photographs collected by the Division of Physical Anthropology held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 8 and Photo Lot 83-41.
Contained in:
Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)
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Division of Physical Anthropology collection of photographs of physical anthropologists, undated
Photo Lot 4822, Division of Physical Anthropology collection of photographs of physical anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The collection consists of studio portraits and expedition photographs of anthropologists, administrators, scholars, and others. It includes some photographs of an Native American demonstrating sign language, possibly made during W J McGee's Seriland expedition.
Photographers represented in the collection are Charles Milton Bell, A. E. Dumbie; De Lancey W. Gill, Mme de Hermann, of Paris; Holland, of Trenton, New Jersey; Charles Lainer, J. Notman; Parker, George Prince, Macnabb, of New York; Moses P. Rice; Napolean Sarony; S. S. Teel; and A. Yasvoin, of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 70
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photograph collections of anthropologists held in the National Anthropological Archives are Photo Lot 4822, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 39, and Photo Lot 77-80.
See others in:
Department of Anthropology photograph collection of anthropologists, circa 1864-1921
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 70, Department of Anthropology collection of photographs of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copy print depicting Earnest Albert Hooton examining the skull of a male gorilla.
Biographical/Historical note:
Earnest Albert Hooton (1887-1954) was a physical anthropologist at Harvard University (1912-1954) and Curator of Somatology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R83-34
Reproduction Note:
Copy print probably made by Wayne College of Medicine, now the Wayne State University School of Medicine, 1954.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of Hooton can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo lot 70.
Correspondence from Hooton can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4851 and the papers of Carleton Stevens Coon, William Armand Lessa, Donald Jayne Lehmer, Ales Hrdlicka, and John Lawrence Angel, as well as the general correspondence files of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
The Peabody Museum Archives at Harvard University holds the papers of Earnest A. Hooton, 1926-1954 (995-1).
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Contact the repository for terms of use and access.
The Indians of Pecos Pueblo, a study of their skeletal remains, by Earnest Albert Hooton: appendix on the dentition by Habib J. Rihan, appendix on the pelves by Edward Reynolds; statistical and laboratory assistants: Ruth Otis Sawtell, Ethel Clark Yates, Pearl B. Hurwitz
The American criminal; an anthropological study, by Earnest Albert Hooton, with the collaboration of the Statistical Laboratory of the Division of Anthropology, Harvard University ..
