Photographs and diagrams depicting Paleolithic sites in France, including Spy Cave and Terrace, La Chapelle-aux-Saints Cave, La Quina, the Krapina Hollow, Neanderthal Cave, and Le Moustier Cave.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 157
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Relocated from National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-34.
Additional drawings and photographs of Paleolithic sites can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 160.
Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-38.
The National Anthropological Archives holds the papers of Ralph and Rose Solecki.
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Extent:
53.5 Linear feet (106 document boxes 6 record storage boxes and 4 small boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Papers
Drawings
Notes
Contact prints
Reports
Photocopies
Grant proposals
Negatives (photographic)
Correspondence
Press releases
Speeches
Photographs
Drafts (documents)
Newsletters
Articles
Photographic prints
Memorandums
Clippings
Resumes
Reviews (documents)
Slides (photographs)
Exhibit scripts
Place:
Arabian Peninsula
Hajar Āl Ḥumayd
Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province)
Maʻrib (Yemen)
Tunisia
Yemen
Egypt
Date:
circa 1959-2008
Summary:
This collection consists of the professional papers of Dr. Gus Van Beek, Curator of Old World Archaeology, Division of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Included is the overall body of field logs and notebooks, correspondence, administrative work, research for and about exhibits, photographs, drawings, work on a variety of Departmental committees, and work leading toward the publication of a number of manuscripts and papers. These materials cover roughly the period from 1959 when Dr. Van Beek was hired as an Associate Curator in the Department until 2008 when he actively ceased work in his office at NMNH.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of the professional papers of Dr. Gus Van Beek, Curator of Old World Archaeology, Division of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Included is the overall body of field logs and notebooks, correspondence, administrative work, research for and about exhibits, photographs, drawings, work on a variety of Departmental committees, and work leading toward the publication of a number of manuscripts and papers. These materials cover roughly the period from 1959 when Dr. Van Beek was hired as an Associate Curator in the Department until 2008 when he actively ceased work in his office at NMNH.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
Collection is organized into 8 series: 1) Correspondence; 2) South Arabia; 3) Exhibits; 4) Publications; 5) Administrative; 6) Photographs; 7) Vertical file.
Biographical Note:
March 21, 1922 -- Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1943 -- Bachelor of Arts with honors from University of Tulsa
1945 -- Bachelor of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago
1947-49 -- Louis J. and Mary E. Horowitz Christian Fellow, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
1951 -- Field research with the American Foundation for the Study of Man at Hajar Bin Humeid, Wadi Beihan, East Aden Protectorate, Arabia
1952 -- Archeological Fellow, American Schools of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, Jordan. Completed field research in the cities of Jericho, Qumran and Dhiban, Jordan.
1953 -- Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Archaeology, History and Semitic Languages from the John Hopkins University
1959-1967 -- Associate Curator, Old World Archeology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
1961-62 -- Intensive archaeological reconnaissance field research in Wadi Hadhramaut and East Aden Protectorate [South Yemen]
1962-65 -- Worked on Hall 26: Old World Archeology permanent exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
1964 -- Archaeological reconnaissance in Yemen and Axum
1965 -- Producing curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit at National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
1966-67 -- Completed archaeological survey of early Phoenician sites in Tunisia
1967-[2008] -- Curator, Old World Archeology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
1967 -- Field research to survey Tigre Province, Ethiopia and the Beq'a of Lebanon
1967 -- Curator of the Tunisian Mosaic Exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
1968 -- Archaeological survey of Wadi Negran, Saudi Arabia
1968 -- Guest Curator of the South Arabian Art Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
1969 -- Surveyed sites in Israel for possible excavation
1969 -- Curator of the Masada Exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
1970-78 -- Organized and directed major archaeological excavations at Tel Jemmeh, Israel. [Annually]
1972 -- Producing Curator of the Arabia Felix exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
1982 -- Directed excavation at Tell Jemmeh and researched terre pise, pise de terre construction in Morocco
1984 -- Excavation at Tel Jemmeh to increase the area of the 10th-9th centuries B.C. exposure
1987 -- Excavation at Tel Jemmeh
1989 -- Researched mud construction in Madras, Pondicherry and Kerala, Indian and in Punjab, Pakistan to determine if highland mud construction was sufficiently adapted environmentally to justify intensive study
1989 -- Researched mud construction (adobe) in Sante Fe, Abiquiu and Taos, New Mexico to compare construction methods and design elements with those of the Middle East
1990 -- Investigated layered mud construction and design in vicinity of Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan and directed small excavation at Tel Jemmeh
1991 -- Field research in vicinity of Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan; Gujarat State, India and across newly unified Yemen
1992 -- Advised the Israel Antiquities Authority on mud construction
1994 -- Field research in eastern architecture in Syria
1995 -- Participated in Adobe Workshop, sponsored by New Mexico State Monuments and J. Paul Getty Conversation organization
1997 -- Research on rammed earth (terre pise) construction and design in Dauphine Province, France and in the states of Hesse, Baden, and Wurtemburg, Germany
1999 -- Research on minimizing earthquake damage in ancient mud brick construction at Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley, Israel
Related Materials:
See also Gus Van Beek's papers related to the Tel Jemmeh expedition.
Provenance:
These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
Restrictions:
The Gus Van Beek papers are open for research.
Access to the Gus van Beek papers requires an appointment.
Photographs depicting classical art and architecture from Rome, Egypt and elsewhere. They include images of classical sculpture in Rome, an Egyptian papyrus, as well as additional sculpture, coins, and other items. There is also a postcard from A. C. Haddon that shows Smart & Copley's photograph of the Matopos in Zimbabwe. Some of the photographs are mounted, possibly for publication.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 79-38
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs from accessions 29586, 40922, 121411, 124072, and 161740, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 158, Photo Lot 161, Photo Lot 76-78, Photo Lot 160, and Photo Lot 159, respectively.
Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-34.
Photo lot 79-38, Division of Old World Archeology collection of photographs of ancient sculpture, architecture, and art, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
101 Stories from the Field,Research; Conservation / Chris Wemmet, Dan H. (Dan Henry) Nicolson, Gus W. (Gus Willard) Van Beek.
102 Stories from the Field,Research / David Kessler, Marie Galloway, Melanie Bond.
101 Planning Exhibitions / Conrad Christopher Labandeira, Ellen Gross Miles.
102 Planning Exhibitions; Caring for Collections / Harry Adams, Jimmy Carr.
Local Numbers:
FP-1996-CT-0100
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 30, 1996.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
The collection consists of copy prints depicting Smithsonian anthropologists, including group portraits of the staff of the United States National Museum Department of Anthropology and mounted individual portraits of department heads in 1904, 1931, 1952, 1959, and 1962. The photographs were possibly made as part of a 1969 event, "The Anthropology of Anthropology, or Everything You Wanted to Know About the Anthropology Department but Didn't Know What to Ask." The announcement for this event is available with the collection.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 39
Reproduction Note:
Copy prints made by the Smithsonian Institution, 1969.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Original negatives for some images are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Records of the Department of Anthropology.
Additional photographs of Department of Anthropology staff can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 136, Photo Lot 76-127, Photo Lot 77-52, Photo Lot 77-80, Photo Lot 79-51, Photo Lot 80-17, Photo Lot 83-15, and the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Citation:
Photo lot 39, Copies of portraits of Smithsonian anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Physical description:
35mm;
Type:
Black-and-white negatives
Date:
1971
March 30, 1971
Local number:
SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1730]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Footage shot of excavations at Tel Jemmeh, Israel. Excavation site is located on the ancient border between Israel and Egypt and was occupied chiefly from 1700 B.C. to 200 B.C. by Canaanites, Philistines, Assyrians, Persians, and Ptolemies of Egypt. Series of large mud brick storage chambers, built by the Ptolemaic government as tax collecting centers, with silos more than six meters in diameter for collecting wheat and barley, and smaller structures for wine are excavated. Footage includes organization of the excavation as well as preparation of the contour plan of the site.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Number:
HSFA 1990.14.1
Related Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds the Gus Van Beek papers.
Provenance:
Received from Gus Van Beek in 1990.
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.
Front row, left to right: Eugene I. Knez, Richard B. Woodbury, Willie Mae Pelham, Dolores Cooper, Caroline I. Semple, Gordon D. Gibson, Marcia P. Bakry, Rachel K. Penner. Row 2: Karlena M. Glemser, Jeraldine M. Whitmore, Matthew W. Stirling, Robert L. Stephenson, Henry B. Collins, Bethune Gibson, Eleanor Haley, Florence R. Morgan, Jesse S. Shaw. Row 3: Gus. W. Van Beek, G. Robert Lewis, Anne M. Lewis, Carl F. Miller, Betty J. Meggers (Evans), Chang-Su Swanson, Angela M. Margola, Robert M. Laughlin, Margaret C. Blaker. Row 4: Edgar W. Dodd, A. Joseph Andrews, Harold A. Huscher, Kent Flannery, George S. Metcalf, Robert C. Jenkins, Evelyn F. Anderson, John C. Ewers, William H. Crocker. Row 5: Robert A. Elder, John F. Ball, Nathalie F. Woodbury, Clifford Evans, Saul H. Riesenberg, Edward G. Schumacher, William C. Sturtevant.
Front row: Eugene I. Knez, Richard B. Woodbury, Willie Mae Pelham, Dolores Cooper, Caroline I. Semple, Angela M. Margola, Gordon D. Gibson. Row 2: Edgar W. Dodd, Gus. W. Van Beek, George S. Metcalf, Jeraldine M. Whitmore, G. Robert Lewis, Kent Flannery, William H. Crocker, Nathalie F. Woodbury. Row 3: Robert A. Elder, A. Joseph Andrews, Betty J. Meggers (Evans), Robert C. Jenkins, Clifford Evans, Saul H. Riesenberg.
Photographs depicting Roman, Greek, Assyrian, and Egyptian sculpture in European museums. Most of the images were made in the British Museum, but others were made at the Vatican, the Louvre, and in Florence.
Biographical/Historical note:
Adolphe Braun (1811-1877) was a French photographer and pioneer of photographic reproduction techniques at his studios in Paris and Dornach. Mostly created after 1866, his photographs of famous works of art helped advance the field of art history; this was his most successful photographic project.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 79-34, USNM ACC 57117
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs and drawings of paleolithic sites, previously filed in 79-34, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 157.
Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-38.
Additional photographs donated by Lucy Hunter Baird as part of accession 57117 can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and Photo Lot 97.
Lucy Hunter Baird also donated artifacts to the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accession 57117.
Photographs documenting people and gifts at Saul Riesenberg's retirement party in the Department of Anthropology chairman's office in 1979. Pictured attendees, mostly Department of Anthropology staff, include William Fitzhugh, David Challinor, Steve Porter, Gus Van Beek, Betty Meggers, Clifford Evans, Judith Luskey, Riesenberg and his wife.
Biographical/Historical note:
Saul Herbert Riesenberg took part in the first American anthropological studies in Micronesia and was the first curator of Pacific ethnology at the Smithsonian in 1957. He later served as department chairman and retired as senior ethnologist.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 80-17
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds Saul Herbert Riesenberg's papers.
Correspondence from Riesenberg can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Saul Herbert Riesenberg Correspondence 1962-1967 and Correspondence, 1967-1972, Records of the Department of Anthropology.
Additional photographs of Riesenberg can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 80-17, Photographs of Saul Riesenberg's retirement party, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The ceremony included tributes to Evans as a man and recounted his contributions to the Smithsonian, to archeology, and to Latin American archeology. Speakers included Carolyn Rose, Gus Van Beek, Donald Duckworth, Stephen Potter, David Challinor, Don D. Fowler, and others.
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Extent:
11 Prints (silver gelatin)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Photographs
Date:
circa 1965
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs depicting the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab layout and collections, as well as images of staff cleaning collections and performing other laboratory activities. Depicted individuals include Edgar Dodd, Clifford Evans, Bethune Gibson, Gordon Davis Gibson, Betty Jane Meggers, George Metcalf, Gus Willard Van Beek, Richard Benjamin Woodbury, Pedro Porras, Harold Huscher, Bob Jenkins, Kent Flannery, George Metcalf, and Willie Mae Pelham. The photographs were probably made by a Smithsonian photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
The photographs were made for Department of Anthropology section of "Research and Publications," documented in the 1965 Smithsonian Institution Annual Report called "Smithsonian Year."
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 83-15
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of Department of Anthropology staff can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 39, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 136, Photo Lot 76-127, Photo Lot 77-52, Photo Lot 77-80, Photo Lot 79-51, Photo Lot 80-17, and the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 83-15, National Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology photographs of Processing Lab and staff, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This collection is mainly comprised of the professional papers of Dr. Gus Van Beek, archaeologist, and relate to the Tell Jemmeh site in Isreal. Included are published and unpublished manuscripts of writings, research materials including field notebooks, volunteer information, accounting, photographs, drawings, and printed materials, including scholarly papers and publications of other scholars and clippings from newspapers and periodicals as well as a number of detailed site maps.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Related Materials:
Other materials relating to Gus Van Beek and Tell Jemmeh at the National Anthropological Archives include:
Video at Human Studies Film Archives
ME-90.14.1: [Smithsonian Institution Excavations at Tel Jemmeh, Israel, 1970-1973]
1970-1973; 3,000 ft (2 hrs) silent color; video
Provenance:
These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
Restrictions:
Access to the Gus Van Beek papers regarding the Tel Jemmeh expedition requires an appointment.
Glorious mud! : ancient and contemporary earthen design and construction in North Africa, Western Europe, the Near East, and Southwest Asia / Gus W. Van Beek ; with Ora Van Beek
