CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-0850 is entitled, "Out My Window;" recorded and narrated by Tony Schwartz, it presents the sounds to be heard outside the front and back windows of Tony's reconverted brownstone house in the middle of Manhattan, on a typical day. His front window faces a residential street while the the back window faces a courtyard, schoolyard and church. An incredible variety of sounds is to be heard, including children, cats, dogs, fog whistle, street repair, construction, a woman hanging out clothes, jets overhead, an air-raid siren (which apparently inspired local dogs to bark and howl), garbage trucks, etc. Among the more interesting sounds were street vendors, a pitchman selling knife sharpeners, kids beating out rhythms on car fenders and mailboxes, a Spanish gospel song, a parade with marching band, a local politician explaining why he should be elected and a street musician playing jazz on a saxophone. Tony Schwartz recorded 11 albums for Folkways, none labelled "Out My Window." However, about half the albums contain sounds along the lines of what is on this tape. Conceivably, some of the sounds from this tape were used on the recordings, although I couldn't readily confirm that. Perhaps this tape was submitted to Folkways as a prototype for an additional album which wasn't produced.
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Original text on slide reads, " Medicine stand. Tuesday. No info"
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Slide No. R25-8
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Original text on slide reads, "Cassette seller outside of Ikoyi hotel. Friday"
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Slide No. R6-6
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, National Museum Building Construction Records
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
Place:
Havana (Cuba) -- 1900-1910
Cuba -- 1900-1910
Scope and Contents:
Reproduction of a color photograph of an Afro-Cuban man holding a basket of bread on his head. He poses for the photograph standing on the sidewalk and smiling.
General:
Series II, Box 17, Foreign, Cuba--Havana.
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Illustration depicts a row of vendors at an outdoor market. The vendors' wares include baskets, serapes, blankets, pottery and other tourist ware. The caption describes the place as a "Mexican Market" / " Mercado, though there are no Mexicans present.
Local Numbers:
AC0200-0000054 (AC Scan)
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Basilica of the Vigin of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico Search this
Collection Creator:
National Philatelic Collection, Smithsonian Institution. Search this
Blenkle, Victor A., Dr., 1900-1978 (physician) Search this
Extent:
1 Item (b/w; Ink on paper, 3-1/2" x 5-1/2".)
Container:
Box 23, Item Grouping - Mexico.
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Picture postcards
Place:
Mexico
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
A photograph (reproduction) of the front of the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas. The scene includes numbers of street vendors and people milling around in the plaza.
Local Numbers:
AC0200-0000034 (AC Scan)
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Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Photographs from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador).
Handwritten by Landes on verso:
landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0406 - "2. Seated Bahiana [woman symbol] selling foods at Itapagipe in mato, aftr presente. Sun. Sept. 18."
Photographs in slide sleeve page marked "September 1938".
Local Numbers:
Image ID.landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0406
Image ID.landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0408
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The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
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Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
Outside Candomblé house of high priestess Flaviana. Photograph from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador). Handwritten by Landes on verso: "Candy-vendor. Boy is abt 14. Outsid Villa Flaviana. Oct. 30, 1938."
Arrangement:
Photographs in slide sleeve page marked "October 30, 1938".
Local Numbers:
Image ID.landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0544
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
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Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
Outside Candomblé house of high priestess Flaviana. Photograph from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador). Handwritten by Landes on verso: "[Woman symbol] selling food on taboleiro outsid Villa Flaviana. Oct. 30, 1938."
Arrangement:
Photographs in slide sleeve page marked "October 30, 1938".
Local Numbers:
Image ID.landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0186
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
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Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
-1938 October 30 (31 prints): Photos of Villa Flaviana, Flaviana's family and ogan, houses near Villa Flaviana, street vendors, Edison Carniero and doctor at psychiatric hospital in Brotas
-1938 November 21 (37 prints): Photos of Dique, views from a launch, and Edison Carniero
-1938 December (2 prints): Photographs of portrait of Aninha and house of Manoel, chief drummer at Gantois
-1939 January 1 (68 prints): Lavagem do Bonfim festival (Washing of the Church of Our Lord of Good Ending) and festival of Bom Jesus dos Navegantes. Views of churches, procession, dolls, crowds, filhas of Joãozinho da Goméia, and priestesses. Also photos of Edison Carneiro and duplicate prints of Martiniano and his wife
-Capoeira, wrestling (106 prints). Also one photo of Gantois
-Idalice's presente (8 prints). Offering ceremony of Idalice, Candomblé de Angola priestess, to Iemanjá. The ceremony was financed by Landes and Edison Carneiro. See Landes's field notebook "Brazil XVII"
-Miscellaneous and unidentified (41 prints). Edison Carniero, Landes, Bahiana dolls, views of Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. Also photos from Idalice's offering ceremony to Iemanjá
(Digital surrogates: landes_photographs_brazil)
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
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Collection Citation:
Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
1 Film reel (41 minutes, silent; 1,068 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
circa 1927-1960
Scope and Contents:
Footage of travel from central Asia through the Middle East and Europe. Sites documented include Basrah, Ur, Bombay, Damascus, Thebes, Venice, Florence, Jerusalem, Switzerland, Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, London, and New York. The film incorporates footage of well-known monuments (Great Pyramids at Giza and the Great Sphinx) and sites in addition to detail of local peoples (children swimming and playing; dancing and music making; street vendors and a funeral) and customs.
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1976.4.1-7
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
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Collection Citation:
Milton E. Merriman travel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Footage taken by Milton E. Merriman, 1920s-1952. Most of the footage is of China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia. The remainder features the Middle East; Europe & Great Bitain; Mexico, Puerto Rico, & South America; and the United States. The edited footage was used by Mr. Merriman in his travel lectures presented during the 1950s. ; Roll 8 consists of footage of Seoul, Korea shot by Milton E. Merriman. Documents Yi Dynasty Tombs. Points of ethnographic interest include: children and adults at play; children fishing; a western style wedding; a stage performance of music and dance involving choirs and orchestras; street vendors; a boxing match; and crowds gathering for a trapeze act.
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1976.4.1-8
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Collection Citation:
Milton E. Merriman travel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A large album of prints by photographer Antoin Sevruguin, likely dating from his early career in Iran in the 1870s and 1880s. The collection also includes a number of loose, unbacked prints, many duplicating the photographs in the album. Roughly half of the mounted prints have English handwritten captions.
Arrangement:
Images indexed by original photographic print number.
Biographical / Historical:
Antoin Sevruguin managed and operated one of the most successful commercial photography studios in Tehran in the late 19th century. Born in the 1840s in Iran, Sevruguin's mother returned with her children to her hometown of Tbilisi after his father Vassil, a Russian diplomat in Iran, died in a horse riding accident. Trained as a painter, Sevruguin returned to Iran in the early 1870s accompanied by his two brothers, establishing a photography studio first in Tabriz and then Tehran. His studio's ties to Tbilisi, however, persisted through the years; many of the early portraits of Dervishes and women have been simultaneously attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and Dimitri Yermakov, the Georgian photographer who is often referred to as Sevruguin's mentor from Tbilisi. Many of Antoin Sevruguin's photographs were published as early as 1885 in travelogues, journals and books indicating that by that time he had a fully established practice in Tehran's Ala al-Dawla street, with ties to the court of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar. Often unacknowledged as the producer of published images in his own time - the 1902 photographic survey of Persepolis being the most glaring of such authorial misrepresentations - he was nevertheless celebrated and acknowledged for his artistic vision and his keen eye for composition, achieving the Medal of Lion and Sun from Nasir al-Din Shah, the 1897 Medal of Honour in the Brussels International Exposition, and the 1900 Medal of Honour in Paris International Exposition. Reflecting a career that spans nearly half a century, Sevruguin's diverse body of work includes studio portraits of families, women and dervishes, survey photographs of archeological sites, objects, landscapes and architecture, and photographs of royalty, high officials and ceremonies of the Qajar court. The range of his output not only demonstrates his own pictorial concerns and artistic abilities but also the divergent interests of his clients. Despite numerous devastating incidents throughout his career - the loss of more than half of his negatives in a 1908 blast and fire, an unsuccessful attempt at diversifying into cinematography in the 1910s, and the confiscation of the remainder of his negatives in the mid-1920s to name a few - his studio remained operational even after his death in 1933. A number of negatives from the Sevruguin studio can be dated to the years after Antoin's death, indicating that the Sevruguin studio continued to be commercially viable. As one of the most prolific early commercial photographers in Iran, Antoin Sevruguin's artistic legacy has since proved far more enduring.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2011.03
Provenance:
Purchase; 2011.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Stephen Arpee Collection of Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
National Film and Sound Archive (Australia) Search this
Extent:
Film reels (3.30 minutes, black-and-white silent)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
circa 1915
Scope and Contents:
Portion of an edited film. Contains scenes of a major street in New York City shot mostly from a moving cable car. Footage shows cars, horse-drawn carts, buses, cable cars, street vendors, and crowded sidewalks. The one intertitle reads: "Walling in its toilers and its bargainers." Paramount Pictures Legacy Keywords: Streets and traffic New York ; Trade vendors New York ; Transportation cars automobiles cable cars horse-drawn carts buses New York ; Urban life New York ; North America ; New York (N.Y.) ; Americans
Local Number:
HSFA 1994.14.4
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Film reels (66 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,500 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1929
Scope and Contents:
Footage of the Mediterranean shot while travelling captures various sites including scenes of coastal shipping, city and rural peasant life, street vendors and peasants, rail travel, monasteries, and a variety of architecture. Also included are scenes of volcanic lava activity, apparently in Italy.
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1990.10.1
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Edward Higbee films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
"The men are commonly identified as food sellers, more particularly Kebab." [Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Curatorial Research Assistant]
- FSg curatorial research specialist remark on Antoin Sevruguin photo condition reads, "Albumen print, faded on the outer boundaries."
- On the mount, below the photographic print, handwritten caption (inked) in English reads, "Sweet-meat Vendor."
Arrangement:
Page twenty-eight of an album of 99 mounted albumen prints with attractive leather covers and embossed green star-and-crescent design.
Biographical / Historical:
Antoin Sevruguin is one of the early pioneers of commercial photography in Iran. He arrived in Iran from Tbilisi, Georgia in the mid 1870s to set up shop in Ala al-Dawla street in Tehran. From the early days, Sevruguin's studio was trusted both by the Qajar court and by foreign visitors to Iran. Highly regarded for their artistic ingenuity outside Iran, Sevruguin's photographs of 'ethnic types,' architecture and landscape, and depictions of daily life of Tehran found their way into foreign travelogues, magazines and books. As such, he stands alone in a relatively large group of early Iranian photographers for being recognized and celebrated outside the boundaries of the country. Antoin Sevruguin passed away in 1933, although his family studio continued for some time as a commercial enterprise.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2011.03 A.28b
General:
Title and Summary notes are provided by Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, FSg research specialist.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Stephen Arpee Collection of Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
"The vendor, with his open tray on his head, is most probably selling fruits." [Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Curatorial Research Assistant]
- FSg curatorial research specialist remark on Antoin Sevruguin photo condition reads, "Albumen print, faded on the outer boundaries."
- On the mount, below the photographic print, handwritten caption (inked) in English reads, "Sweet meat Vendor."
Arrangement:
Page thirty-three of an album of 99 mounted albumen prints with attractive leather covers and embossed green star-and-crescent design.
Biographical / Historical:
Antoin Sevruguin is one of the early pioneers of commercial photography in Iran. He arrived in Iran from Tbilisi, Georgia in the mid 1870s to set up shop in Ala al-Dawla street in Tehran. From the early days, Sevruguin's studio was trusted both by the Qajar court and by foreign visitors to Iran. Highly regarded for their artistic ingenuity outside Iran, Sevruguin's photographs of 'ethnic types,' architecture and landscape, and depictions of daily life of Tehran found their way into foreign travelogues, magazines and books. As such, he stands alone in a relatively large group of early Iranian photographers for being recognized and celebrated outside the boundaries of the country. Antoin Sevruguin passed away in 1933, although his family studio continued for some time as a commercial enterprise.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2011.03 A.33b
General:
Title and Summary notes are provided by Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, FSg research specialist.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Stephen Arpee Collection of Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
![View Folder 6 Progress Photographs, 1907-1909. digital asset: United States National Museum, Exhibit Hall (Tribes of the Arid Region; Apache Man and Woman), March 1910. [Image No. SIA2009-1994]](https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=120&id=https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/electronicresource.gif "United States National Museum, Exhibit Hall (Tribes of the Arid Region; Apache Man and Woman), March 1910. [Image No. SIA2009-1994]")
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