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Creator:

Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)  Search this

Names:

Geological Survey (U.S.)  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Thompson, A. H. (Almon Harris), 1839-1906  Search this

Washakie, approximately 1804-1900  Search this

Photographer:

Beaman, Edward O.  Search this

Fennimore, James  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Extent:

45 Stereographs (albumen)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Stereographs

Photographs

Place:

Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)

Green River Watershed (Wyo.-Utah)

Date:

circa 1871

Scope and Contents note:

Stereographs published by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, documenting canyons along the Green and Colorado Rivers and surveyors. Although the images in this collection are credited to Powell and A. H. Thompson, the primary photographers on these surveys were John K. Hillers, E. O. Beaman, and James Fennemore. There is also one stereograph of Washakie's camp, made by William Henry Jackson on September 4, 1871; it is from the series "Picturesque Views of Rocky Mountain Scenery."

Biographical/Historical note:

The geological survey of John Wesley Powell, first authorized in 1870, was known by several names before its final designation as the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. The photograph mounts in this collection refer to the "U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Valley of the Colorado," a survey that continued Powell's earlier work in the basin of the Colorado River. John K. Hillers (1843-1925) was hired as a boatman for John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871. Initially working as an assistant to team photographers E. O. Beaman and James Fennimore, Hillers eventually became the main photographer for the expedition in 1872.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 76-131

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Photographs relating to the Powell surveys can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 4605, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 140.

The Library of Congress, the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, and the New York Public Library hold additional stereographs from the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

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Genre/Form:

Stereographs

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 76-131, Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region stereographs of canyons on the Green and Colorado Rivers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.76-131

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-76-131

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2008-12-12T21:54:04.000Z

YouTube Category:

Nonprofits & Activism  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_8XmbLd1ZnI8

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2008-12-12T18:17:40.000Z

YouTube Category:

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Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_DmwCKJMH3C8

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2008-12-12T20:52:19.000Z

YouTube Category:

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Topic:

Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_LRSjWHzPtXY

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2008-12-11T16:46:36.000Z

YouTube Category:

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Topic:

Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_bV3ouOwIFEc

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2008-12-16T15:42:41.000Z

YouTube Category:

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Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_mVvj_QFtWqk

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2008-12-12T21:16:49.000Z

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Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_qxRhg1s2JN8

Creator:

Smithsonian Libraries  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2009-05-18T18:31:51.000Z

YouTube Category:

Science & Technology  Search this

Topic:

Library science  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianLibraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_WztO6fSsxCA

Creator:

Smithsonian Libraries  Search this

Type:

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2011-05-19T16:53:37.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Library science  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianLibraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_dFUz-hwL9kw

Creator:

Smithsonian Libraries  Search this

Type:

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2011-05-19T20:03:19.000Z

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Education  Search this

Topic:

Library science  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianLibraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_yTLHUkq3GWc

Collector:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. exhibit designer  Search this

United States National Museum., exhibit designer  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Extent:

31 Mounted prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Mayas  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Indians of the West Indies  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Mounted prints

Photographs

Place:

Xochicalco Site (Mexico)

Date:

1904

Scope and Contents note:

Images of United States National Museum anthropological exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also called the St. Louis World's Fair. Images of the Department of Anthropology's exhibits include those of photographs and models of Mayan and Mesoamerican temples; antiquities from Mexico, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies; and American Indian, Mexican, and Mesoamerican sculptures, ceramics, tools, textiles, masks, and baskets. Photographs also document the Bureau of American Ethnology's exhibits, including "symbolic art," drawings and paintings on artifacts from tribes of the New Southwest, Plains, and Northwest Coast. The collection also includes a photograph of carved designs on a structure at Xochicales, possibly used in the exhibition or as part of its design.

Biographical/Historical note:

The National Museum's Department of Anthropology and the Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition were highly integrated, and both were designed by then chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology and former head curator of the Department of Anthropology, William Henry Holmes. The exhibits were intended to illustrate "the culture of the Native American peoples as shown in their arts and industries." The exhibit featured examples of architecture, sculpture, ceramics, metal work, water craft, musical instruments, pipes, and ceremonial objects and included models of Aztec ruins based on plans by De Lancey W. Gill.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 82-31

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Papers, photographs, and records relating to exhibitions at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4689, MS 7571, MS 7208, Photo Lot 24, and Bureau of American Ethnology Letters Received 1888-1906.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum, 1867-1940 (SIA RU000070) as well as photographs of the exhibits.

Additional photographs of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 107, Photo Lot 89-8, and Photo Lot 90-1.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

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Topic:

Religion  Search this

Mayas -- Antiquities  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Symbolism  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 82-31, Photographs of Smithsonian anthropology exhibits at Louisiana Purchase Exposition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.82-31

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-82-31

Author:

Luebke, Frederick C. 1927-  Search this

Kaye, Frances W  Search this

Moulton, Gary E  Search this

University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies  Search this

Physical description:

xiii, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm

Type:

Congresses

Place:

Great Plains

Date:

1987

C1987

Topic:

Cartography  Search this

Maps  Search this

Discovery and exploration  Search this

Call number:

GA401.M37 1987X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_321886

Author:

Kinsey, Joni  Search this

University of Iowa Museum of Art  Search this

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art  Search this

Joslyn Art Museum  Search this

Physical description:

xx, 236 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 x 26 cm

Type:

Books

Art

Place:

United States

Middle West

Date:

1996

Topic:

Prairies in art  Search this

Pastoral art  Search this

In art  Search this

Call number:

N8214.5.U6 K56 1996

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_500067

Author:

Thompson, Lawrence Sidney 1916-  Search this

Physical description:

576 p. 24 cm

Type:

Bibliography

Place:

Southern States

United States

Date:

1970

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

Slavery  Search this

Call number:

Z1251.S7 T473 1970

Z1251.S7T473 1970

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_5476

Creator:

International Salt Company  Search this

Costain, Harold Haliday  Search this

Rittase, William M., 1894-1968  Search this

Extent:

3.5 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photograph albums

Slides (photographs)

Photographs

Transparencies

Time books

Scrapbooks

Cashbooks

Annual reports

Ledgers (account books)

Financial records

Patents

Letters

Newsletters

Date:

1881-1993

bulk 1920-1929

Summary:

The collection contains business records and photographic materials documenting the International Salt Company. The business records include correspondence, account and ledger books, a payroll book, patent and trademark information, print advertising and marketing materials, and a salesman salt display kit. The photographic materials include a series of photographs by William M. Rittase, a series of photographs by Harold Haliday Costain, a small photograph album, snapshots, and slides. The images cover all facets of the salt manufacturing and packaging operations, and include photographs taken in New York State, Michigan, and Louisiana.

Scope and Contents:

The collection contains business records and photographic materials documenting the International Salt Company. The business records include correspondence, account and ledger books, a payroll book, patent and trademark information, print advertising and marketing materials, and a salesman salt display kit. The photographic materials include a series of photographs by William M. Rittase, a series of photographs by Harold Haliday Costain, a small photograph album, snapshots, and slides. The images cover all facets of the salt manufacturing and packaging operations, and include photographs taken in New York State, Michigan, and Louisiana.

The scrapbooks contain advertisements for the International Salt Company's Sterling Salt label and other leading salt companies, especially Morton's. Much of the ephemera consists of labels, but there are also small pamphlet cookbooks. The cookbooks, prepared and marketed by various salt companies, tout recipes for tasty dishes using specific salts and expound upon the merits of salt in general, especially the medical benefits. Other clever salt-related advertising appears in conjunction with maps, buttons, song books, calendars, and health exercises.

Series 1, Business Records, 1894-1937, consists primarily of financial materials--ledgers, cash books, monthly statements, timekeeping and payroll information--for the Avery Rock Salt Mining Company (A.R.S.M.Co.), Detroit Rock Salt Company, Detroit Salt Company, International Salt Company, and the Restof Mining Company. Additionally, there is one annual report for the International Salt Company (1957) and the newsletter Saltmaker, 1964.

There are two A.R.S.M.Co. ledgers, 1898-1907 and 1907-1922. The first ledger, 1898-1907, predates the founding of the International Salt Company, and it is likely that A.R.S.M.Co was absorbed by International Salt during a merger. Documentation recorded including inventories, merchandise, labor, surplus, insurance, office expenses, legal expenses, taxes, bills receivable, directors' committee fees, fuel, candles, oil, waste and packing, rental, repairs and maintenance, interest, labor, feed, outside salary account, Cuban consignment account, and loan account. Specific persons, such as superintendents F. Rundio and Sidney Bradford, are mentioned and specific companies including Restof Mining, Joy Morton Company, Havana Mill, G. Lawton Childs & Company, International Salt of New York and various others (pages 193-212), are listed with expenses.

The Detroit Salt Company (general ledger), 1911-1913, consists of one bound volume documenting the company's assets, liabilities, expenses, earnings, advance accounts, and old accounts.

Detroit Rock Salt Company (cash record), 1912 October-1913 January, consists of one bound volume documenting cash received and cash disbursed.

International Salt Company, Inc., Independent Salt Company Division (monthly statements), 1933 October-1937 December, consists of one bound volume of general ledger trial balance sheets organized chronologically. Detailed documentation includes general expenses, assets, capital assets, liabilities, special reserves, net worth, profit and loss statements, warehousing costs and tonnage purchased.

Restof Mining Company (time and payroll), 1894 July 1-1895 March 31, consists of one bound volume of 400 pages, documenting the time and payroll for employees. The volume contains the name of the employee, the number of days worked, hourly wage earned per day, the amount earned, advances, board due, store (supplies due), rent, and any balances due. A portion of the volume is severely water-damaged.

Series 2, Trademarks, 1881-1935, consists of copies of issued trademark declarations from the United States Patent Office. The trademarks are for company names, logos, salt containers and packages, and various salt products. The trademarks are arranged alphabetically by the name of the trademark. For example, Amaessa, a trademark for baking powder and salt is filed with other trademarks beginning with the letter "A." Additional materials consist of one file folder of correspondence and printed materials about patents, trademarks and copyright laws. The correspondence relates specifically to the ownership of certain trademarks by International Salt Company, and there is correspondence from John L. Ryon, assistant sales manager and W.T. Chisolm, vice-president of International Salt Company. There are compiled lists of brand names, trademarks, and package designs for which International Salt registered at the United States Patent Office, 1926-1927. There are two examples of small cloth bags branded with "Ideal Salt" and some packaging, such as "White Lily High Grade Salt" and labels such as "Purex Free Running Table Salt." The Peter J.L. Searing trademark for salt (No. 52,963) and Chicago Sawed Salt-Block Company (No. 15,174) provide examples of ethnic imagery. A trademark is a brand name. A trademark or service mark includes any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination used or intended to be used to identify and distinguish the goods/services of one seller or provider from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods/services. Although federal registration of a mark is not mandatory, it has several advantages, including notice to the public of the registrant's claim of ownership of the mark, legal presumption of ownership nationwide, and exclusive right to use the mark on or in connection with the goods/services listed in the registration.

Series 3, Photographs, 1934-1993, is divided into five subseries: Subseries 1, Harold Haliday Costain, 1934; Subseries 2, William Ritasse, circa 1934; Subseries 3, Loose Photographs, 1969-1993; Subseries 4, Slides, circa 1970s; and Subseries 5, Album (unidentified), undated.

Subseries 1, Harold Haliday Costain, circa 1934, consists of three photographs (approximately 10 1/2" x 13") black-and-white prints mounted to 16" x 20" boards. The prints are numbered #6, #42, and #44 and depict a salt mine and equipment used in salt manufacturing located in Avery Island, Louisiana.

Subseries 2, William Ritasse, circa 1934, consists of black-and-white prints (10" x 14") signed by Ritasse which are mounted on 18 1/2" x 20" boards. The photographs are arranged numerically from #350 to #480. Many of the photographs are captioned. American photographer William Rittase (1887-1968), active in the 1920s-1930s, is known for his industrial photography. Rittase's images provide insight into International Salt Company activities such as salt manufacturing, packaging operations, general factory processes, printing salt bags, can labeling, brine storage, exteriors of buildings, crushing salt, men in the salt mines, machine shop views, and equipment.

Subseries 3, Loose Photographs, 1969-1993, consists of black-and-white and color prints, as well as transparencies depicting salt mines and related activities. Some of the photographs document a visit by International Salt Company executives to the Jefferson Island, Louisiana salt plant.

Subseries 4, Slides, circa 1970s, consists of seventeen color slides documenting salt plants, equipment and salt miners.

Subseries 5, Album (damaged mine), undated, consists of twenty-two 4" x 6 1/2" black-and-white photographs documenting the damage to a salt manufacturing plant. The photographs are captioned, but there is no indication of the geographic location of the salt plant.

Series 4, Advertising and Marketing Materials, 1920-1948, consists of two scrapbooks (14" x 17" and 11" x 16") that contain primarily tear sheets, unbound periodical pages showing an advertisement as printed, or as a proof, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, price lists, recipes, labels, periodicals, and other ephemera.

The scrapbook, 1920-1931, consists primarily of advertisements and newspaper clippings related to advertising salt products, especially for Morton's Salt and Diamond Crystal Salt. Other companies represented include Colonial Salt Company, Carey Salt Company, Jefferson Island Salt Company, Kerr Salt Company, Mulkey Salt Company, Myles Salt Company, Ohio Salt Company, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, Remington Salt Company, Star Salt Corporation, Union Salt Company, Worcester Salt Company, and Watkins Salt Company.

The scrapbook from 1945-1948 is devoted to advertisements for the International Salt Company and Sterling Salt, which promoted salt uses for the home (table salt, curing meats, and brines), industry (rock salt for winter weather) and agriculture (killing weeds). Many of the advertisements were part of the "Pass the Salt" campaign and were featured in publications such as Woman's Day, National Provisioner, Food Industries, Hide, Leather and Shoes, Chemical Previews, and Public Works. The scrapbook is divided into three sections: institutional, weed prevention, and Lixate, a process developed by the International Salt Research Laboratory for making brine. Many of the advertisements were prepared by J.M. Mathes Incorporated.

Also included is a traveling salt kit for Sterling Salt Company salesmen, undated, featuring small glass vials of sterling salt from mines in Detroit, Avery Island, Louisiana, and Restof, New York. Each vial notes the types of salts--purified, softener, iodized, medium flake, coarse flake, granular flour, and meat.

Series 5, Posters, circa 1920s, consists of oversize advertising posters for Worcester Salt Company. There is one set of labels from an exhibit titled "I Eat Rocks! Salt of the Earth."

Arrangement:

The collection is divided into five series.

Series 1, Business Records, 1894-1937

Series 2, Trademarks, 1881-1935

Series 3, Photographs, 1934-1993

Subseries 1, Harold Haliday Costain, circa 1934

Subseries 2, William Ritasse, circa 1934

Subseries 3, Loose Photographs, 1969-1993

Subseries 4, Slides, circa 1970s

Subseries 5, Album (damaged mine), undated

Series 4, Advertising and Marketing Materials, 1920-1948

Series 5, Posters, circa 1920s

Biographical / Historical:

The International Salt Company incorporated on August 22, 1901, and in 1902, the company purchased the stock and assets of the National Salt Company, which had failed. By 1934, International Salt was a holding company for six subsidiaries: Avery Salt Company (West Virginia), Detroit Rock Salt Company (Michigan), Eastern Salt Company (Massachusetts), Independent Salt Company (New York), International Salt Company, Inc. (New York), and Retsof Mining Company (New York). All of the subsidiaries operated rock salt mines and evaporated salt plants and distributed salt. In 1940, the International Salt Company decided to sell four of its subsidiaries--Avery Salt Company, Detroit Rock Salt Company, International Salt Company, Inc., and Retsof Mining Company.

John M. Avery discovered rock salt at Petite Anse, Louisiana in 1862. Petite Anse Island was renamed Avery Island in the late 19th century. Ownership and mining of salt at Petite Anse involved numerous parties until 1886, when New Iberia Salt Company took over operations. In 1896, the Avery family began operating the mine, and they founded the Avery Rock Salt Mining Company. In 1899, the International Salt Company leased the mine.

The Detroit Salt and Manufacturing Company was founded in 1906. The company quickly went bankrupt during construction of a shaft and was acquired in 1910 by the Watkins Salt Company, which incorporated the new organization under the name Detroit Rock Salt Company. The company experienced success and the International Salt Company purchased the mine circa 1914. In 1983, International Salt closed the mine's operations and in 1985, Crystal Mines, Inc., purchased the mine as a potential storage site.

In 1885 the Empire Salt Company of New York was renamed the Retsof Mine Company, and the Village of Retsof was founded near the mine shaft. During the next 110 years, the mine grew to become the largest salt-producing mine in the United States and the second largest in the world. Before the initial collapse in March 1994, the mine encompassed an underground area of more than 6,000 acres, and the mine footprint (outer edge of mined area) extended over an area of nearly ten square miles. At the time of the collapse, the Retsof Mine was owned by Akzo-Nobel Salt Incorporated (ANSI) and, during the winter of 1993--994 operated at full capacity to meet demands for road salt throughout the northeastern United States. The Retsof Mine ceased operations on September 2, 1995, and by December, twenty-one months after the initial collapse, the mine was completely flooded.

Related Materials:

Materials held at the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of American History

Trade catalogs from International Salt Company Inc., 1900s

Materials held at Other Organizations

Harvard University Archives

Ritasse, William M., 1894-1968. Photographs of Hardvard University campus and environs taken by William M. Ritasse, circa 1930.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs

Avery Rock Salt Mining Company, Plan. June 16, 1924 (AKZO No. 7-77-02) - Avery Island Salt Works, Akzo Salt Incorporated, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, LA

Salt Mine Village, Salt Workers' Houses No. 6, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, LA

Avery Island Sugarhouse, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, LA

State Library of Louisiana

Historic Photograph Collection contains images of salt mining at Avery Island, Louisiana.

University of North Carolina, Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Library

Papers for the Avery Family of Louisiana, 1796-1951

Provenance:

Tom Maeder donated the collection on June 13, 2009.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

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:

Salt  Search this

Salt workers  Search this

Salt mines and mining -- Michigan  Search this

Salt mines and mining -- New York  Search this

Salt industry and trade  Search this

Salt mines and mining -- Louisiana  Search this

advertising  Search this

Industrial photography -- 1990-2000 -- Texas  Search this

Mines and mineral resources -- Louisiana  Search this

Mines and mineral resources -- New York  Search this

Mines and mineral resources -- Michigan  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photograph albums

Slides (photographs) -- 20th century

Photographs -- 20th century

Transparencies

Time books

Scrapbooks

Cashbooks

Annual reports

Ledgers (account books)

Financial records

Patents

Letters

Newsletters

Citation:

International Salt Company Records, 1881-1993, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1158

See more items in:

International Salt Company Records

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1158

Photographer:

Coolidge, Dane, 1873-1940  Search this

Extent:

0.01 Linear feet

6 Photographs

Culture:

Seri  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

1932

Summary:

This collection contains 3 photographic prints (and 3 copy negatives) depicting a Seri man in Mexico, photographed by Dane Coolidge in 1932.

Scope and Contents:

N37332-N37334, P15199-P15201

This collection contains 3 gelatin silver prints shot by Dane Coolidge in Mexico in 1932 and 3 copy prints created from those prints by the Museum of the American Indian. Coolidge and his wife Mary Roberts Coolidge studied the Seri in the 1930s. All three photographs are outdoor portraits of Seri medicine man Santo Blanco. In one photo he is shaking rattles, in a another photo he is depicting playing a musical bow, and in the third photo he is wearing a medicine man's crown. Some of these photos were used to illustrate Dane and Mary Coolidge's book The Last of the Seris (1939).

Arrangement:

Arranged by catalog number.

Biographical / Historical:

Naturalist and novelist Dane Coolidge was a born on March 24, 1873 in Natick, Massachusetts and grew up in Riverside, California. He received his education from Standard and Harvard Universities. He later worked as a field collector for the British Museum, Stanford University, and the U.S. National Zoological Park. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction usually set in Western locales such as California and the U.S. Southwest. In 1906, he married sociologist Mary Roberts and the two collaborated on the books The Navajo Indians (1930) and The Last of the Seris (1939). Dane Coolidge died in 1940 and Mary Roberts Coolidge in 1945.

Related Materials:

The University of California's The Bancroft Library holds Dan Coolidge Papers (Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 82).

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries holds a copy of The Last of the Seris (Call no. F1221.S43C7).

Separated Materials:

Mary Roberts Coolidge also donated Seri objects to NMAI (catalog numbers 203200 - 203414).

Provenance:

This collection was purchased from Mary Roberts Coolidge in 1940.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Topic:

Indians of Central America  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Dane Coolidge photographs from Mexico, catalog #, NMAI.AC.202; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.202

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Dane Coolidge photographs from Mexico

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-202

Creator:

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950  Search this

Source:

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Former owner:

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Extent:

1428 Negatives (photographic)

40 Photographic prints (black & white)

Culture:

Mushuaunnuat (Barren Ground Naskapi)  Search this

Mistassini Cree  Search this

Lorette Huron  Search this

Mohawk  Search this

Montagnais Innu  Search this

Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki Algonquin) [River Desert]  Search this

Maliseet (Malecite)  Search this

Mi'kmaq (Micmac)  Search this

Iroquois [Six Nations/Grand River (Brantford, Ontario)]  Search this

Penobscot  Search this

Passamaquoddy  Search this

Abenaki (Abnaki)  Search this

Wampanoag  Search this

Nauset  Search this

Mohegan  Search this

Niantic  Search this

Pequot  Search this

Nanticoke  Search this

Rappahannock  Search this

Chickahominy  Search this

Pamunkey  Search this

Mattaponi  Search this

Nansemond  Search this

Catawba  Search this

Eastern Band of Cherokee  Search this

Machapunga (Pungo River)  Search this

Innu  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives (photographic)

Photographic prints

Negatives

Place:

Massachusetts

Maine

Maryland

Virginia

Canada

Delaware

North Carolina

Date:

1909-1937

Summary:

The Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection includes portraits of individuals and families, as well as scenic shots and landscape views made between 1909 and 1937. Speck was an anthropologist and ethnographer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation collecting ethnographic materials across the Eastern United States and Canada. His collection of photographs includes materials from native communities ranging from Newfoundland to Ontario in Canada and from Maine to South Carolina in the United States.

Scope and Contents:

The Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection includes negatives and a small amount of prints made by Speck throughout the course of his career as an anthropologist and ethnographer. The majority of the photographs in this collection were made while Speck conducted field trips on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation between 1924 and 1932, though there are photographs from before and after this time. This collection has been arranged into Series by geographical location and then into subseries by culture group or community. Series 1: Newfoundland and Labrador: Innu, Mushuaunnuat, 1916-1935; Series 2: Quebec: Innu, Mistassini Cree, Lorette Huron, Wawenock, Mohawk, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, 1910-1937; Series 3: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, 1909-1917; Series 4: Ontario: Six Nations/Grand River (Naticoke, Mohawk, Cayuga, Mahican, Tutelo), Oneida Nation, 1914-1937; Series 5: Maine and New Hampshire: Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, 1910-1924; Series 6: Massachussets and Rhode Island: Wampanoag, Nauset, 1914-1931; Series 7: Connecticut: Mohegan, Niantic, Schaghticoke, Pequot, 1912-1931; Series 8: Delaware: Nanticoke and Rappahanock, 1911-1925; Series 9: Virginia and Maryland: Rappahanock, Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Nansemond, Potomac, Accomac, Powhatan, 1915-1924; Series 10: North Carolina and South Carolina: Catawba, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1915-1930.

Many of Frank Speck's photographs are individual and family portraits of community members, many identified, posed outdoors in front of homes and community buildings. There are also landscape views as well as photographs taken during community events. There are a small amount of photographs that have now been restricted due to cultural sensitivity though for the most part Speck did not photograph culturally sensitive activities.

Arrangement:

The collection is intellectually arranged in 10 Series by geographic region and within each series by culture group. The negatives are physically arranged by catalog number.

Biographical / Historical:

Frank Gouldsmith Speck was born on November 8, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied under the prominent linguist John Dyneley Prince and anthropologist Franz Boas at Columbia University, receiving his BA in 1904 and MA in 1905. He received his Ph.D. in 1908 from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral dissertation on the ethnography of the Yuchi became a basis for an article which later appeared in the Handbook of American Indians. That same year Speck became an assistant in the University of Pennsylvania Museum and an instructor in anthropology at the University. He was made assistant professor in 1911, and professor and chairperson of the department in 1925, a position which he held until his death in 1950. Speck was the founder of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society, and was vice-president of the American Anthropological Association from 1945-46. Speck's research concentration was on the Algonkian speaking peoples. Speck studied every aspect of a culture: language, ethnobiology, technology, decorative art, myths, religion, ceremonialism, social organization, and music. Collecting material culture was also an integral part of Speck's fieldwork. His collections can be found in museums around the world, one of which is the National Museum of the American Indian. He is the author of numerous books and articles. Frank G. Speck died February 6, 1950. (A. Irving Hallowell, American Anthropologist, Vol. 53, No. 1, 1951)

Related Materials:

The Frank G. Speck Papers can be found at the American Philosophical Society (Mss.Ms.Coll.126) along with additional photographic materials by Speck.

Frank Speck published extensively in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation publications; "Indian Notes" and "Indian Notes and Monographs." These publications are avialable through the Smithsonian Institution Libraries or online on the Internet Archive.

Separated Materials:

A small amount of notes from Speck's field work can be found in the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records (NMAI.AC.001) in Box 273, Folder 18 through Box 274 Folder 2.

Close to 4000 ethnographic and archeological items were collected by Speck for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI) and are now in the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) collection. For more information about these objects contact the NMAI Collections Department.

Provenance:

The majority of the negatives were gifted to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI) by Frank Speck in 1927. The group of Nanticoke photographs were purchased by the MAI in 1915 and smaller amounts of photographs were gifted and purchased by the MAI between 1923 and 1942.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Topic:

Indians of North America -- Maine  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Maryland  Search this

Indians of North America -- Massachusetts  Search this

Indians of North America -- Canada  Search this

Indians of North America -- Delaware  Search this

Indians of North America -- Midwest  Search this

Indians of North America -- Virginia  Search this

Indians of North America -- North Carolina  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Photographic prints

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank Speck photograph collection, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001.032

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Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-032

Author:

National Archives (U.S.)  Search this

Friis, Herman Ralph 1905-  Search this

Physical description:

26 p. illus. 27 cm

Type:

Bibliography

Exhibitions

Place:

Pacific Area

West (U.S.)

Date:

1961

1961]

Topic:

Manuscript maps  Search this

Discovery and exploration  Search this

Call number:

Z4501 .U55

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_113762

Author:

Bartlett, Richard A  Search this

Physical description:

xxiii, 408 p. illus., ports., maps. 25 cm

Type:

Books

Surveys

Place:

West (U.S.)

United States

Date:

1962

[1962]

Topic:

Discovery and exploration  Search this

Call number:

F594 .B29

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_24046

Author:

Yale University Library Yale Collection of Western Americana  Search this

Beinecke, Frederick W  Search this

Beinecke, Carrie Sperry  Search this

Goddard, Jeanne M  Search this

Kritzler, Charles  Search this

Physical description:

v. facsims., port. 27 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Bibliography

Place:

West (U.S.)

Date:

1965

1965-

Topic:

Manuscripts  Search this

History  Search this

Sources  Search this

Call number:

Z1251.W5 Y18

Z1251.W5Y18

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_29053