The majority of the collection documents Northwest Coast scenery, people, and settlements; these include photographs made by Franz Boas during US Fish Commission expeditions on the USS Albatross, as well as engravings made for publications on Northwest Coast Natives by Franz Boas and Albert Parker Niblack. Another large portion of the collection consists of reference prints relating to Native Americans, Ainu people and Japan, Polynesia, the Philippines, Bonin Islands, and Peru. Many of these were copied from the central negative file of the National Museum of Natural History as well as other museums. There are also photographs, many by C. H. Townsend, made during the Fish Commission expeditions to Puerto Rico on the USS Fish Hawk and some taken by N. B. Mills during an expedition that traveled on the USS Albatross to Baja California and the Galapagos Islands.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 82, NAA Photo Lot 83
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives also holds Niblack's notes concerning Northwest Coast Indians, circa 1885-1889 (MS 4513), additional photographs by Romyn Hitchcock of Ainu (Photo Lot 77-38), additional C. H. Townsend photographs (in Photo Lot 24), original Matilda Coxe Stevenson photographs (Photo Lot 23), and original negatives made by Niblack (in BAE historical negatives).
The United States Fish Commission Records are held by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
The American Philosophical Society holds the Franz Boas papers.
Albert Parker Niblack's papers are held by J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, and William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lots 82 and 83, Collection of photographs relating to the Northwest Coast and American Indians, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Salmon and trout / by Dean Sage, C. H. Townsend, H. M. Smith and William C. Harris; illustrated by A. B. Frost, Tappan Adney, Martin Justice, and others
Salmon and trout / by Dean Sage, C. H. Townsend, H. M. Smith and William C. Harris; illustrated by A. B. Frost, Tappan Adney, Martin Justice, and others
MS 4838 Extracts from Report on Cruise of U.S.F.C. [Fish Commission] Str Albatross in the South Seas, 1899-1900 by Comdr Jeffn. F. Moser, U. S. N., Comdg
Includes title page and a sketch. Manuscript consists of ethnographic notes by Charles H. Townsend and H. F. Moore (whose names appear at the top of each page) of the U. S. Fish Commission.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4838
Local Note:
Prints of photographs taken during the expedition are in the archives (uncatalogued). Some of the negatives, numbering (not always consecutively) from approximately 40060 to to 40300, are on file in the MNH and MHT photo labs; records show that negatives 40015-40021 were destroyed in 1951.
Although a note with the manuscript seemed to indicate that it had been microfilmed, no microfilm was located in 1969 and no related manuscripts were found.
typescript document
Topic:
Expeditions -- cruise of U.S.F.C. Str Albatross Search this
Dredging and other records of the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross, with bibliography relative to the work of the vessel. Compiled by C. H. Townsend
The U.S.S. 'Albatross' in Lower Californian seas : cruise of 1911 : articles collected from the American Museum Bulletin and Novitates, and from Zoologica, of the years 1912-1925 / by C.H. Townsend ... [et al.]
Illustrations showing condition of fur-seal rookeries in 1895 and method of killing seals : to accompany report of C. H. Townsend, assistant, United States fish commission
The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific Ocean. By David Starr Jordan ... commissioner in charge of fur-seal investigations of 1896-97. With the following official associates: Leonard Stejneger and Frederic A. Lucas, of the U.S. National Museum. Jefferson F. Moser ... in command of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. Charles H. Townsend, of the U.S. Fish Commission. George A...
Author:
United States Department of the Treasury Commission on Fur-seal Investigations Search this
Reports of agents, officers, and other persons, acting under the ... Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the condition of seal life on the rookeries of the Pribilof Islands, and to pelagic sealing in Bering Sea and the north Pacific Ocean, in the years 1893-1895. In two parts
Author:
United States Department of the Treasury Search this
