Studio photograph of a woman sitting on a prop rock, posing against a painted backdrop with one arm behind her head. She has long black hair down to her waist. Her blouse is white, short-sleeved, and partially unbuttoned. She wears a black knee-length skirt and no shoes. One in a series of about ten images of women, some nude, from around the world. Translation of caption: Original card of a Mexican demoiselle. Warm sepia-colored print, with applied color on skirt (reddish) and locket (gold) hung from neck.
General:
"Made in Mexico" in ink, lower left verso. Photographer's name, address, and "Papeleria Graue" imprinted on sticker, lower right verso. Card not mailed.
Located in Series III; Box 27, Nudes.
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
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.
National Philatelic Collection, Smithsonian Institution. Search this
Blenkle, Victor A., Dr., 1900-1978 (physician) Search this
Extent:
1 Item (color, 3.5" x 5.5".)
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Picture postcards
Place:
Mexico City (Mexico)
Scope and Contents:
Color photomechanical reproduction of a photograph of a young Mexican woman wearing a shawl on her head and a white blouse with a flower print. Her black hair is pulled back and covered by the shawl. She looks off to the side, her face and body towards the camera, slightly hidden by a wall. Her features indicate Indian heritage. Translation of caption: The servant. Imprint of Dr. Samuel Macias Valadez on image size.
Message on verso in Spanish addressed to Mr. F. Swann Harding, Washington, plus note in English: "Please send me more views of your city / Post-cards." Message dated July 11, 1917.
General:
Series III; Box 27, Portraits---General.
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
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.
[Woman with fingers in her ears and lips pursed : black and white photoprint]
Collection Creator:
Hampson, Albert W., 1911-1990 (artist) Search this
Extent:
1 Item (8" x 10.25".)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
[ca.1940-1950.]
Scope and Contents:
Woman's image used as a model for advertisement for Tung-Sol Vibration-Tested Radio Tubes; photographer unidentified.
Local Numbers:
AC0561-0000005.tif (AC Scan)
General:
In Box 7, Folder 3.
Restrictions:
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
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.
Assembled by collectors Dr. Henry D. Rosin and Nancy Rosin to document nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century photography of Japan. Includes albumen prints, portions handcolored, some signed and numbered in the negative. Taken by photographers Felice Beato (b. ca. 1825), Baron Raimon von Stillfried (1938-1911), Kusakabe Kimbei (active 1880s), Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904), Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) and unknown photographers to depict architecture, landscapes, formal studio portraits, and daily activities.
Arrangement:
Organized chronologically by the creators.
Biographical / Historical:
Henry and Nancy Rosin were collectors of Japanese photography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Item (photographic print ; on mount 35.5 x 28 cm, image 25.6 x 19.6 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia -- Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
Empress Shōken, consort of the Meiji Emperor, dressed in imperial court robes.
Biographical / Historical:
Uchida Kuichi (内田九一) apprenticed under Ueno Hikoma, and eventually opened photo studios in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka. He is credited as taking one of the first photographs of the Emperor Meiji and his consort.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Item (photographic print, hand coloring, 24.3 x 19.2 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia -- Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
Empress Shoken, consort of the Meiji Emperor,dressed in imperial court robes. This is a reprint of Uchida's original photograph by the studio of Baron Raimund von Stillfried
Biographical / Historical:
Uchida Kuichi apprenticed under Ueno Hikoma, and eventually opened photo studios in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka. He is credited as taking one of the first photographs of the Emperor Meiji and his wife.
Local Numbers:
R033 (Rosin Number)
FSA A1999.35 033
General:
According to Henry and Nancy Rosin, this photographic print was probably reprinted by another photographer in this format, a not uncommon practice.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Human Development Search this
Extent:
129.25 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1920 - circa 1980
Scope and Contents:
The papers reflect much of Sheldon's professional life and aspects of his personal life. Although the material consists mainly of photographs, there are also significant amount of other documents such as letters, notes, questionnaires, lectures, announcements, charts, illustrations, and printed materials. The photographs are usually composite front, side, and rear views of nude individuals, male and female, of all ages. The photographic subjects represent hospital patients, patients in mental institutions, college students, prisoners, and others. Many were taken by Sheldon or his assistants. Also included are photographs of child growth studies, including selected cases from the Growth Study of the Institute of Child Development at the University of California at Berkeley and the Gesell Institute in New Haven, Connecticut. There are also photographs made by other researchers in the field of constitutional studies. Most of Sheldon's own photographs and many of the others include information about the subjects such as identification (number or name), date, place, age, height, weight, and the numerical classication following the Sheldon scheme for morphological types. Some photographs have special information about illnesses and other conditions. There are other accompanying notes for some photographs.
For a period following Sheldon's death, his collection was in the custody of Dorothy Paschal, Roland Elderkin, Emil Hartl, and Edward P. Monnelly. Elderkin was a social worker and one of Sheldon's assistants, and he recorded notes concerning some research subjects. He was also the person who assembled and arranged much of the nonphotographic material. Paschal was also one of Sheldon's assistants, who handled many of this administrative matters. She also carried out photography of women. Emil Hartl, a minister and social worker affiliaged with the Morgan Memorial Charles Hayden Goodwill Inn School in Boston, Massachusetts, helped Sheldon in his early studies of delinquent boys. Sheldon regarded these and certain others as collaborators, and he shared authroship of some of his publications with them. Monnelly, a psychiatrist, was a later colleague and follower of Sheldon. Limited material of all four individuals have been incorporated in the papers.
Correspondents include: Alpert, Sherry L. ; Ames, Louise Bates ; Ansley, Hudson ; Bischof, L.J. ; Barnhouse, Ruth ; Beach, Priscilla Alden ; Bowerman, W.G. ; Bradley, Stanley E. ; Brandon, Mary ; Breen, Walter ; Burgess, E.W. ; Butterfield, Victor L. ; Carter, J.E. Lindsay ; Chaplin, Stephen ; Child, Irvin L. ; Clarke, H. Harrison ; Clausen, John A. ; Coffin, Thomas E. ; Cortes, John B. ; Craddick, Ray A. ; Cressman, Luther Sheeleigh ; Damon, Albert ; Dobzhansky, Theodosius ; Dalrymple, Willard ; DeBoer, Lawrence P. ; Darnall, Eric ; Dupertuis, C. Wesley ; Ellenberger, Henri F. ; Eaton, Joseph W. ; Fletcher, Joseph ; Glueck, Eleanor T. ; Haronian, Frank ; Heston, W.E. ; Hoge, Dean R. ; Hopkins, Carl E. ; Howells, W.W. ; Heath, Barbara Honeyman ; Humphreys, Edward J. ; Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 ; Huxley, Laura ; Ilg, Francis ; Kretschmer, Ernst ; Krogman, Wilton Marion ; Kline, Nathan S. ; Keleman, Stanley ; Kent, Ian ; Inna, Ida ; Lagey, Joseph C. ; Lewis, Ned ; Larson, Leonard A. ; Lindsey, Gardner ; Lo-Piccolo, Joseph ; Louis, Howard P. ; Martin, John B. ; Maslow, Abraham ; Maslow, Bertha ; McCloy, C.H. ; McKusak, Victor A. ; Merriman, J.E. ; Morris, Charles ; Morse, Wayne ; Mumford, Lewis ; Niederman, James Corson ; O'Connor, Lim ; Oka, Seishi ; Olds, Glenn A. ; Olson, E.D. ; Osborne, Richard H. (Richard Hazelet) ; Osmond, Humphrey ; Packard, Vance ; Page, Melvin E. ; Paschal, Guy ; Pearl, Raymond ; Pearson, Tony ; Porter, Ann Humber ; Ross, William D. ; Rogers, Frederick Rand ; Saltus, Carol ; Schlegel, Richard ; Shore, James H. ; Stevens, Didi ; Swengle, E.M. ; Steele, Henry ; Sheldon, Israel ; Stevens, Stanley Smith ; Tanner, James L., 1941- ; Tenney, Ashton Munroe ; Thompson, Warren H. ; Trotter, Francille ; Tucker, William B. ; Walker, Richard N. ; Wallace, Henry A. ; Weitzman, Ellis ; Wyland, Hugh C. ; Yochelson, Samuel ; Elderkin, Roland D. ; Paschal, Dorothy ; Hartl, Emil ; Monnelly, Edward P.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
William Herbert Sheldon received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago in 1925 and an M.D. from the same institution in 1933. He taught at the University of Texas in 1923-1924; University of Chicago, 1924-1927; University of Wisconsin, 1927-1930; University of Chicago Theological Seminary, 1931-1938; Harvard University, 1938-1942 (as lecturer in psychology and research associate in anthropology); and University of Oregon Medical School, 1951-1970. He served in the United States Army Medical School, 1942-1944. In 1946, he became the director of the Constitution Clinic of Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and he continued in that capacity from 1946 to 1959, by which time the clinic was transferred to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Sheldon became a research associate with the Institute of Human Development at the University of California at Berkeley in 1956, and attending chief at the research facility of Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, New York in 1961. His last post was a director of the Biological Humanics Foundation in Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he assumed in 1972.
Around 1927, Sheldon became interested in both biological and sociological aspects of personality, and he followed this interest the rest of his life. The interest was reflected in his decision to pursue medical studies and in research pursuits during military service, teaching appointments, and service with medical institutions. Some of his work concerned the relationship between constitutional factors and medical disorders, including psychiatric ones, and much of it involved constitutional factors and personality and behavior, including sociopathic behaivor.
Much of his work remained in the stage of devising tools and techniques for dealing with subjects and collecting data, some of it apparently never developing much beyond the photographs of subjects, his work with female subjects being an example. Still, Sheldon became widely known for having devised a relatively elaborate classification of male body types based on variations and combinations of three characteristics--mesomorphy, endomorphy, and ectomorphy (roughly muscularity, fattiness, and lack of both muscularity and fattiness)--and ascribing personality and behavioral characteristics to the many types.
Provenance:
Donated to the archives by Guy Paschal and received June 1987.
Restrictions:
The Sheldon Papers include both photographic and textual material that is restricted.
Restricted collection material is restricted until 2050 (80 years from 1970, which is circa date for the most recent files). Restricted material may be requested; however, access to restricted material access is subject to Smithsonian IRB approval. The material is restricted in accordance with policies and regulations relating to privacy because it contains Personally Identifiable Information (PII), photographs, and human subjects data about living individuals.
Access to the William H. Sheldon papers requires an appointment.
African American women : photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture / Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture ; Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts
Issuing body:
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) Search this
Reflections : woman's self-image in contemporary photography : [photographs by Ellen Carey, Judy Dater, Judith Golden, Anne Noggle, Starr Ockenga, Joyce Tenneson / essays by Catharine R. Stimpson and Barbara Hershey ; foreword by Edna Carter Southard]
