White, J. Claude (John Claude), b. 1853 Search this
Extent:
1 Print (carbon, 10 x 3.5 cm.; mounted 16 x 5 cm.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Panoramas
Photographs
Place:
Tsangpo Valley
Tibet (China)
China
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of one carbon print by John Claude White, depicting a panoramic view of the Tsangpo River Valley, Tibet, circa 1904.
Arrangement:
oversized file folder
Biographical / Historical:
John Claude White (1853-1918) was an amateur British photographer who spent his professional life working for the British Raj. From 1883 to 1908, White was stationed in Kathmandu and Sikkim. His famous images of the Himalayas were taken during this period. He accompanied Francis Younghusband on the British expedition to Tibet in 1903-1904 and made a number of landscape photographs during the campaign, including the image in this collection.
Local Numbers:
FSA A1998.06
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Panoramas
Photographs
Identifier:
FSA.A1998.06
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Photographs collected by Emma A. Koch documenting the people and natural and built environments of India, South Asia, and Australia. The collection largely consists of images of East Indian peoples, structures, scenery, and activities, including tea making and entertainment; areas of India most commonly depicted are Assam, Bengal, and the Andaman Islands. Additional photographs portray people, architecture, and scenery in Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet, and Australia. Most of the photographs were likely taken by Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd (Bourne & Shepherd), with some made by Scowen & Co., Shepherd & Robertson, Benjamin F. Simpson, Reynolds, and Ganey.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 161, USNM ACC 40922
Location of Other Archival Materials:
This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 79-38.
Photographs in the Koch Collection (accession 40922), previously filed in Photo Lot 97 and Photo Lot 8, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 161. These photographs were also collected and donated by Koch in 1903 and form part of this collection.
Additional photograhs by Bourne & Shepherd can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 82-44, Photo Lot 91-27, and Photo Lot 97.
Additional photographs by Shepherd & Robertson can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 8.
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives hold additional photographs by Benjamin Simpson, Samuel Bourne, Bourne & Shepherd, Scowen & Co., and Shepherd & Robertson.
Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-34.
Koch also donated an album of dried flowers to the Department of Anthropology as part of accession 40922.
See others in:
Emma A. Koch photograph collection of India, South Asia, and Australia, circa 1862-1885
Tara River (Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Algeria
Balkan Peninsula
Brazil
Peru
Amazon River Region
Pakistan
Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
Sacsahuamán Site (Peru)
Bamiyan Site (Afghanistan)
Date:
circa 1947-1970
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs made during William F. Baggerman's travels, including trips on the Pan-American Highway, the Tara River in Yugoslavia, and a Transsaharan "expedition" in the Amazon River Region, and in the Balkans, Tibet, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bakistan. They document people and their natural and built environments, as well as markets, ceremonies and festivals, transportation, and historical sites. Title slides and images of magazine articles and maps indicate that slides in the collection were probably used for lectures. The collection is accompanied by publications, letters, and itineraries relating to Baggerman's travels, as well as audio tapes of Sogyal Rinpoche's Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and jewelry pieces collected by Baggerman (including rings and a bracelet).
Biographical/Historical note:
William Francis Baggerman was a businessman in Missouri and Florida and an advocate for Tibet. An amateur photographer, he documented a variety of organized "expeditions" and "safaris" to foreign destinations, which he made in the 1950s and 1960s.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 98-23
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Baggerman also donated a Dalton Super Model Adding Machine to the National Museum of American History, in accession 1986.0977.
The Missouri History Museum holds the William F. Baggerman Papers (circa 1940-1991).
Photographs, most of which were made by the Philippines Bureau of Science, documenting people, dwellings, daily activities, scenery, monuments, and transportation. There are also some images of Filipinos after a volcanic eruption. Philippine peoples depicted include Tingian, Tagalog, Igorot, Bontok, Ifugao, Ilongot, Mandaya (Isneg), Bagobo, Kalinga, Philippine Negrito, Subananun, and Filipino.
The collection also includes photographs made in India, China, and Tibet. Most of the Indian and Tibetan photographs are by Th. Paar of Darjeeling.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 87-18
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional Bureau of Science photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 81-58B.
White, J. Claude (John Claude), b. 1853 Search this
Extent:
1 Print (carbon, image 15 x 20 cm., mounted 40 x 51 cm)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Prints
Photographs
Place:
Kangmar
Tibet (China)
China
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of two items: 1. Carbon print by John Claude White, depicting a panoramic view of a mountain valley and village in Kangmar, Tibet, circa 1904.
Arrangement:
Oversized file folder in one flat box.
Biographical / Historical:
John Claude White (1853-1918) was an amateur British photographer who spent his entire professional life working for the British Raj. From 1883 to 1908, White was stationed in Kathmandu and Sikkim, and his famous images of the Himalayas were taken during this period. He accompanied Francis Younghusband on the British expedition to Tibet in 1903-1904 and made a number of landscape photographs during the campaign, including the image in this collection.
Local Numbers:
FSA A1998.05
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Identifier:
FSA.A1998.05
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits Search this
Extent:
16.33 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box) (6 oversize drawing boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Brochures
Exhibition catalogs
Manuscripts
Compact discs
Digital images
Digital versatile discs
Floppy disks
Architectural drawings
Floor plans
Maps
Color transparencies
Color photographs
Video recordings
Videotapes
Electronic records
Date:
1985, 1988, 1991-1995, 1998-2007
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records documenting special exhibitions and traveling exhibitions produced or hosted at the National Museum of Natural History. Exhibitions
documented in this accession include "Baseball as America;" "America's Wildest Places: Our National Wildlife Refuge System;" "A Place Called Home;" "Dinotopia;" "Emissaries
of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations;" "Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness;" "Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925;"
"Spirit of Ancient Colombian Gold;" "Passion for Plants: Contemporary Art from the Shirley Sherwood Collection;" "Peter Rabbit's Garden;" "Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis
Khan;" "Caves: A Fragile Wilderness;" "Hawaiian Treasures;" "In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite;" "Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity
of the Alutiiq People;" "Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Portraits;" "Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang;" "Masters of the Ocean Realm: Whales, Dolphins and
Porpoises;" "Korean American Century;" "Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand;" "World of Wonders;" "Desert and Sea: Visions of Baja California;" "Subhankar Banerjee: Seasons of Life
and Land;" "Picture Puzzles: Red Cloud's Manikin and His Uncle's Shirt;" "Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer;" "Visual Griots;" "Ancient Microworlds;" "Wondrous Cold:
An Antarctic Journey;" "Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibit;" "Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska;" "Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's
Outer Islands;" "Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota;" "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People;" "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga;" "Anteaters: Fast Food Specialists;"
"Spiders!;" "Shark!;" "Meteorites on a Mission;" "Voyages of Discovery;" "Making of the Natural History Museum's Galapagos IMAX Film;" "Buccellati: Art in Gold, Silver, and
Gems;" "Royal Tombs of Sipan;" "Seeds of Change;" and "Wonder Bound: Rare Books on Early Museums." Materials include memoranda, correspondence, press releases, object lists,
scripts, installation images, floor plans, architectural drawings, brochures, budgets, checklists, schedules, exhibition catalogs, graphic elements, videos, maps, ephemera,
and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.
An interview of Mary Lee Hu conducted 2009 March 18-19, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Hu's home and studio, in Seattle, Washington.
Hu speaks of growing up outside Cleveland, Ohio; her early interest in making objects; attending the Lawrence Art Center camp in Kansas at the age of 16 where she first experimented with metals; her like of working with tools in order to create something; taking metal smith classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art during high school; attending Miami University in Ohio for two years followed by two years an Cranbrook Academy of Art; working as a TA with L. Brent Kington at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale; her collaborative work in both textiles and metals while at Carbondale which lead to her first experimentation in weaving silver wire; creating a body of work for her Master's thesis in which all the pieces were woven wire; various works, their origins, when, where and why they were created, including her Neckpiece, Choker, Bracelet, Brooch and Ring series; her aesthetic interest in patterns, line and positive/negative space; a limited interest in and use of color in her work; the transition from silver to gold wire; a progressively larger interest in the history of jewelry and body adornment which eventually became a lecture at the University of Washington, where she taught for 26 years; numerous trips around the world to countries such as China, Tibet, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia; a strong interest in ethnic and native jewelry/body adornment practices; the various purposes which jewelry can serve in society; her involvement with the Society of North American Goldsmiths and the American Craft Council; her technique based teaching practices; the role that modern technology plays in teaching, learning, and making jewelry; the lack of support and funds for metals programs in universities around the country; her library, which includes aver 2,000 books about the history of jewelry and body adornment; her collection of jewelry from around the world; her want to create beautiful and functional jewelry; the public and private aspects to jewelry and it's role in museums; current projects and the importance to maintain interest of metals in younger generations. Hu also recalls Gary Turner, Hans Christensen, Otto Dingeldein, Heikki Seppä, Hero Kielman, Phil Fike, Patti Warashina, Gary Noffke, Elliott Pujol, Chonghi Choo, Daphne Farafo, Vicki Halper, Ron Ho, Miye Matsukata, Alma Eikermann, Mark Baldridge, Kurt Matzdorf, Eleanor Moty, Fred Fenster, John Marshall, James McMurray, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Mary Lee Hu (1943- ) is a metalsmith in Seattle, Washington. Smith was educated at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Southern Illinois University. She teaches at the University of Washington.
General:
Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 43 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962 Search this
Extent:
2.02 cu. ft. (4 document boxes) (1 microfilm reel)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Maps
Black-and-white photographs
Manuscripts
Date:
1922-1929
Descriptive Entry:
This collection consists chiefly of photographs of landscapes and plants taken by Rock on collecting trips to China and Tibet, 1922-1929. The Rock Specimen Catalog,
located in the Botany Library of the National Museum of Natural History, includes a list of plants collected, 1921-1924, and identification of plants taken, 1928-1929. Also
in the Botany Department are manuscript maps prepared by Rock showing his itinerary, 1925-1927.
Historical Note:
Joseph Francis Rock (1884-1962) was a botanist who specialized in the flora of Hawaii and China. He directed many expeditions on which he collected zoological, ornithological,
and botanical specimens.
Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman in Tibet, China, Mongolia: 1923-25, 6/2/2006
Collection Creator::
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Guest Services Search this
Container:
Box 10 of 10
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 07-214, National Museum of Natural History. Office of Guest Services, Friday Noon Lecture Program Audiotapes
1933 Mount Everest, Nepal and Tibet, China, Houston Mount Everest Flight
Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
1933 Mount Everest, Nepal and Tibet, China, Houston Mount Everest Flight
Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Container:
Drawer J1, Folder 1933-550-01
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents note:
Documents
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
1933 Mount Everest, Nepal and Tibet, China, Houston Mount Everest Flight
Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Container:
Drawer J1, Folder 1933-550-02
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents note:
Documents
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Photographs made by Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall while missionaries on the China-Tibet border. The photographs document Tibetan, Chinese, and Vietnamese people, ceremonies, dances and musicians, shrines, traders, boats, towns, agriculture, and scenery. The collection also includes images of the Ekvalls and other missionaries and a map of Gansu province from the Christian and Missionary Alliance newsletter.
Biographical/Historical note:
Robert Brainerd Ekvall (1898-1978) and Betty Ekvall were missionaries for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the Tibetan Plateau on the China-Tibet border. Robert Ekvall was born in Gangsu province, China, to parents who were among the first Christian and Missionary Alliance missionaries in Tibet. After his father's death, Ekvall returned to the United States with his mother. He attended Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College, graduating in 1920. In 1921, Ekvall married fellow Wheaton alumnus Martha Elizabeth Fischer (commonly known as Betty) and both attended the Nyack Missionary Institute. The next year they left for China, where Robert taught at the Bible school. They also traveled into Tibet to establish a mission station in Ngawa. In 1927, the Ekvalls returned to the United States due to political turmoil in China, though they went back to China the following year. On another furlough in the U.S., Robert Ekvall did some graduate work in anthropology at the University Chicago. The Ekvalls returned to Tibet, where Betty Ekvall died of illness in 1940. In 1941, Robert Ekvall traveled to Indochina where their son, David, was doing missionary work; he was repatriated to the United States in 1944 and joined the United States Army in Burma and China. He later published books, articles, and poems on Tibet and China, and taught at the University of Washington.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2003-12
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College holds the oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript by Ekvall (CN 092).
The Newark Museum holds some Tibetan material from Ekvall.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Color slides
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 2003-12, Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall photographs of Tibet and Indochina, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photographs documenting Tibetan monasteries, Potala Palace, Tibetan women, cities, and scenery in Central Tibet, including the region's capital, Lhasa. Prints are in a boxed set issued by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (Russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo).
Biographical/Historical note:
G. Ts. Tsybikov was a Russian-educated Buriat scholar and a Buddhist who made a pilgrimage to Lhasa in 1899-1902. He documented his pilgrimage in photographs and made extensive notes on Tibetan society and politics. In May 1903, he presented his photographs and report to the Geographical Society, which won him the society's Przhevalskii prize. Ovshe M. Norzunov was a Mongolian Kalmuk who also traveled to Tibet as a Buddhist pilgrim, in 1989, 1900, and 1901. Because of their Mongolian heritage, Tsybikov and Norzunov were able to enter Lhasa at a time when Western visitors were barred from the city. Their photographs, published in the January 1905 issue of National Geographic, are noted for having created the magazine's "hallmark" photographic focus.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 76-122
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Digital surrogates of a similar set of photographs are held by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
