Series 3: California, and other locations, circa 1936, includes 67 lantern slides from California, New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, and British Columbia. Communities in California include: Washoe (Washo), Cocopa, Hupa, Karuk (Karok), Mewuk (Miwok), Pomo, Desert Cahuilla, Wintu. Other communities represented in this series include: Nuxalk (Bellacoola), Moapa Paiute, Yakama (Yakima), Salish (Flathead), and A:shiwi (Zuni).
Access to NMAI Archives 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).
A number of photographs in this collection are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Duncan Strong lantern slides, image #, NMAI.AC.388; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Bryce Canyon National Park -- photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Utah
Wyoming -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Colorado -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
South Dakota -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Florida -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Georgia -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Tennessee -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Zion National Park (Utah) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Kentucky -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Mt. Rushmore S.D. -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
Badlands National Park (S.D.) -- 1930-1940 photographs
Date:
1935 - 1940
Summary:
The collection consists of a disassembled photograph album, featuring images from the travels of Stauffer and his wife.
Scope and Contents:
This album consists of 109 loose pages, bearing a total of 134 black and white silver gelatin photoprints, some postcards, and a photomechanical reproduction clipped from a publication, with a 1939 World's Fair ticket stub. The subjects of the photographs include: Lincoln's birthplace and other sites in Kentucky; Tennessee; Georgia; Florida; Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts; the 1939 New York World's Fair, ships in Battery Park and Manhattan buildings; the ships The Normandie, The Queen Mary, and The U.S.S. Constitution and the Southern Clipper airplane; the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota, Cathedral Spires and Mount Rushmore portrait busts during construction; Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming; Rocky Mountain National Park, Pikes Peak and Denver, Colorado; Bryce Canyon, the Mormon Temple, Zion National Park, Salt Lake City and other areas of Utah; Boulder Dam; Santa Catalina Island; Carlsbad Caverns; and celebrities Bill Robinson and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson at a barbecue in Los Angeles. There are also photographs of the Stauffers and of friends whom they visited during their travels.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into
Biographical / Historical:
Born in Alliance, Ohio on November 28, 1899, Clyde Stauffer served in the U.S. Navy from November 8, 1917 to July 31, 1919. He later worked as a police officer in Detroit, Michigan. He and his wife were active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post in Detroit, serving terms as post commander and president of the Women's Auxiliary, respectively. They traveled extensively throughout the United States to attend VFW meetings, and the album forms a record of their travels during the years 1935-1940. After retirement from the Detroit police force, the Stauffers moved to Oscoda, Michigan, and he worked at Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Later they lived in Tucson, Arizona. Stauffer died in August, 1984.
Album forms a record of vacation travel by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Stauffer, 1935-1940. Their travels were occasioned by Mr. Stauffer's position as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post of Detroit, Michigan, and the need to attend V.F.W. meetings around the country. Mrs. Stauffer was president of the V.F.W. auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Stern met the Stauffers in Oscoda, Michigan, and both families eventually relocated in Tucson, Arizona.
Provenance:
This collection was bequeathed by Clyde W. Stauffer in August 1984. Mr. Stern, as administrator of the estate, sent the album to the Museum.
Restrictions:
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:
Automobile travel -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- U.S.A. Search this
This collection includes lantern slides documenting William Duncan Strong's 1932 archaeological excavations of Sahnish (Arikara) villages in North Dakota and South Dakota as well as Strong's 1936 excavations in Honduras and California. Used for lectures, this collection includes a number of images of maps, illustrations, and photographs from other institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scope and Contents:
Series 1: Sahnish (Arikara) villages, 1932, includes 85 glass lantern slides which document William Duncan Strong's archaeological excavations of Sahnish (Arikara) villages in North Dakota and South Dakota, particularly at the Leavenworth and Huff sites. These include slides depicting the excavation itself, with both site images and images of William Strong and others at work. There are also slides which include illustrations of maps and site drawings, as well as images of objects such as pottery sherds and pots. It is unclear who the photographer was for these photographs, more research is required. Some of the photographs in this series have been restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Series 2: Archaeological Expedition to northwestern Honduras, 1936, includes 141 glass lantern slides which were part of a donation to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation by the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University following Strong's death. These include photographs taken by William Strong in Honduras during excavations near Lago De Yojoa, Olancho, Naco, Tres Piedras, and in Copan. The expedition was conducted by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, and the Peabody Museum of Harvard University.
Series 3: California, and other locations, circa 1936, includes 67 lantern slides from California, New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, and British Columbia. Communities in California include: Washoe (Washo), Cocopa, Hupa, Karuk (Karok), Mewuk (Miwok), Pomo, Desert Cahuilla, Wintu. Other communities represented in this series include: Nuxalk (Bellacoola), Moapa Paiute, Yakama (Yakima), Salish (Flathead), and A:shiwi (Zuni).
Lantern slides include catalog numbers L01382-L01468 and L01581-L01786.
Arrangement:
Arranged in three series. Series 1: Sahnish (Arikara) village excavations, 1932; Series 2: Archaeological Expedition to northwestern Honduras, 1936; and Series 3: California, and other locations, circa 1936. Arranged by catalog number within each series.
Biographical / Historical:
William Duncan Strong was born on January 30, 1899 in Portland, Oregon. He received his B.A. degree in 1923, and his Ph.D. in 1926 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Strong's interest in anthropology developed under the influence of Dr. A.L. Kroeber, a student of Dr. Franz Boas. He worked at the Field Museum of Natural History at the University of Nebraska, and at the Bureau of American Ethnology before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1937.
Dr. Strong served as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology for many years, and he remained at Columbia until his death in 1962. Dr. Strong's anthropological career consisted of a variety of experiences. Between 1924 and 1925, Strong was assigned by Dr. Kroeber the job of classifying the Max Uhle Peruvian Collections. During the winter of 1927-28, he participated in the Rawson-McMillan Subarctic Expedition collecting valuable data on the Naskapi Indians of Labrador. His field research on the Great Plains was influential in changing the previous picture of native life on the Great Plains. His excavations in Honduras in 1933 and 1936-37 provided important data on the Maya civilization. It was in 1940, while at Columbia, when he began his field work in Peru which gained him his greatest recognition. He excavated on the central Peruvian Coast of Pachacamac in 1941-42, on the northern Peruvian Coast of the Viru Valley, and on the southern Peruvian Coast at the Nazca and Ica Valleys in 1952 and 1953.
Strong influenced American anthropology by his service in professional societies. He served as president of the American Ethnological Society, the Institute of Andean Research, and the Society for American Archaeology. He was the director of the Ethnogeographic Board (his journal from his tenure as director is in the papers) and chairman of the Committee on Basic Needs of American Archaeology. In this latter capacity, Strong was involved in establishing a program to salvage archaeological sites before they were destroyed by public works. Strong served as the anthropological consultant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs during Franklin Roosevelt's administration and advised on new directions to be taken in Indian Service policy.
See more:
https://archaeology.columbia.edu/william-duncan-strong/
Related Materials:
William Duncan Strong papers, 1902-1965 (NAA.1974-28)
https://sova.si.edu/record/naa.1974-28
Provenance:
The lantern slides from Series 2: Honduras, and Series 3: California, and other locations, were a gift from the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University in 1962 (L01581 - L01786). The provenance of the remaining lantern slides (L01382 – L01468) in Series 1: Sahnish (Arikara) village excavations, is still unclear, though they were likely cataloged by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation prior to the 1962 gift, based on the catalog numbers.
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives 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).
A number of photographs in this collection are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives 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.
Genre/Form:
Lantern slides
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Duncan Strong lantern slides, image #, NMAI.AC.388; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
