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Collector:

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Correspondent:

Becker, G. F.  Search this

Bell, Alexander G.  Search this

Croly, D. G. Mrs  Search this

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885  Search this

Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893  Search this

McDonald, J. Wade  Search this

Minot, Charles F.  Search this

Nestler, Julius  Search this

Niblack, S. S.  Search this

Owen, Edward T.  Search this

Parkman, Francis  Search this

Peñafiel, Antonio, 1830-1922  Search this

Powell, Joseph  Search this

Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904  Search this

Sayles, Ira  Search this

Shaler, N. S.  Search this

Spencer, Herbert  Search this

Tylor, Edward Burnett  Search this

Vogdes, A. W.  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Walker  Search this

Hare, William H.  Search this

Welling, James C.  Search this

Addressee:

Call, W., Hon  Search this

Names:

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885  Search this

Hinman, Samuel Dutton, 1839-1890  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1880-1907

Scope and Contents:

Contents: Becker, G. F. San Francisco, California. June 24, 1884. 1 page. Asking to be relieved of an inefficient clerical helper. Bell, Alexander G. Washington, D. C. December 17, 1884. 1 page. Invitation to dinner. Croly, Mrs D. G. New York City. 1884. 3 pages. Requesting photographs for International Bazaar at Cassel, Germany. Cushing, Frank Hamilton. Shelter Island, New York. October 31, 1885. 4 pages. Expressing appreciation for Powell's consideration during Cushing's illness. Grant, U. S. New York City. August 23, 1883. 2 pages. Requesting job for a widow. Horsford, E. N. Cambridge, England. November 19, 1883. 4 pages. Expressing strong interest in Cushing's field work and notes, and concern for his health. McDonald, J. Wade. Winfield, Kansas. January 6, 1896. 1 page. Concerning Powell's "The Organization of Scientific Work." Minot, Charles F. Boston, Massachusetts. November 7, 1884. 1 page. Enclosing letters referring to chairmanship of Committee on the international Congress. (Letters returned.) Nestler, Julius. Prague, Austria. November 17, 1907. [Date correct; salutation, "Dear Sir."] Re his proposed expedition to Bolivia. Niblack, S. S. to Hon. W. Call. Lake City, Florida. January 19, 1884. 2 pages. Enclosed with letter to Powell (missing). Re employment of one of Niblack family. Owen, Edward T. Madison, Wisconsin. May 7, 1901. 3 pages. Transmitting his article on pronouns (?). Parkman, F[rancis]. Boston. April 12, 1882. 3 pages. Concerning Bandelier's expeditions; and impression of F. H. Cushing. Penafiel, Antonio. Mexico City. February 27, 1886. 1 page. 7 transl., 1 page. Transmitting publications. Powell, Joseph. Towanda, Pennsylvania. May 13, 1884. 2 pages. Genealogical inquiry. Powers, Stephen. Waterford, Ohio. December 31, 1880. 2 pages. Sayles, Ira. Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. August 16, 1885. 5 pages. Enclosing 2 poems on Ulysses S. Grant. Shaler, N. S. Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 17 and 26, 1886. 2, 2 pages. Social invitations. Spencer, Herbert. Bayswater, W., England. July 2, 1883. 4 pages. Expressing interest in the Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Tylor, Edward B. Oxford, England. May 16 and October 17, 1884. 4, 4 pages. Concerning his trip to the U. S. and Canada. Vogdes, A. W. Governor's Island, New York. October 2, 1884. 3 pages. Re attack on a party of hunters ca. 1873 by Sioux Indians near Fort Fetterman. Walcott, Charles D. New York City. July 28, 1881. 3 pages. Re increase in salary. Walker, , Supt. of Census. Washington, D. C. August, 7, 1880. 1 page. Enclosing William H. Hare to Gen. Walker, August 3, 1880, 1 page. Re conduct of Samuel D. Hinman. Welling, James C. Washington, D. C. September 7, 1884. 2 pages. October 3, 1884. 3 pages. Re Powell's making Inaugural Address at New School of Science and Arts of the University of .

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4024-c

Topic:

Expeditions -- Bandelier  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4024-c, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4024C

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d1f11b68-d589-4fdd-acdf-c2495b2fd4fa

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4024c

Creator:

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Extent:

1 Photomechanical print (018 in x 047 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Photomechanical prints

Photographs

Date:

1913

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.02690200

Local Note:

Copyright: National Geographic Society; 1913 Names of Surrounding Glaciers and Peaks Listed on Photo

Black and white photomechanical print

Place:

Canada -- British Columbia -- Robson Peak

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

Photo lot 37, Photographs of North American geology and scenery,National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Photographs of North American geology and scenery

Photographs of North American geology and scenery / Scenic views

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw34283093d-fbfd-4923-b6b9-b6e8aebf5d7a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-37-ref750

Creator:

Griffith, Thomas Jefferson  Search this

Correspondent:

Browning, John G.  Search this

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Includes photos of site and objects, letters from J.G. Browning, J.W. Fewkes, and C.D. Walcott, affidavit of T.J. Griffith, and newspaper clippings.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2415

Topic:

Birch bark  Search this

Pictographs -- Iowa  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Manuscript 2415, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2415

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw311a548a0-61ad-41aa-9134-715e92368099

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2415

Photographer:

Reid, Harry Fielding, 1859-1944  Search this

Names:

Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Extent:

1 Photographic print (008 in x 010 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Photographs

Date:

1894

Scope and Contents:

According to W.J. McGee's copy of this photograph in MS 2003-31, the photographer was H.F. Reid, presumably Harry Fielding Reid.

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.02864600

Local Note:

Black and white photoprint

Place:

West Virginia -- Harper's Ferry

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Portraits of anthropologists

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e2cb5087-fdb6-464c-ac12-b0322eaf4549

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-33-ref610

Uniform title:

The North American Indian (Monographs : 1907-1930)  Search this

Subject:

Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952  Search this

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Physical description:

0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

Type:

Clippings

Collection descriptions

Manuscripts

Plates (illustrations)

Date:

1907

1907-1911

Topic:

Publications  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Local number:

SIA Acc. 23-005

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_404793

Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

49 Photographs

Container:

Box 312

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Photographs

Place:

District of Columbia

Date:

1916-1919

Scope and Contents:

An album of photographs of the construction of the Freer Gallery of Art, sent periodically to Charles Lang Freer from the office of the Secretary of the Smithsonian. Scenes include the building site; the groundbreaking ceremony; construction scenes from various angles including from the roof of the Smithsonian Castle, and an aerial view of the nearly completed building.

Photographs of the building in Washington to house the Freer Collection

Biographical / Historical:

Due to illness, Charles Freer rarely visited Washington during the construction of his eponymous gallery. Secretary Charles Walcott sent periodic reports of the building's progress. These reports included the attached photographs, which Freer maintained in a bound album. Although the Freer Gallery did not open until 1923, the photographs in this album end in 1919 on Charles Freer's death.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 11.09

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Architectural photography  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Subseries 12.12

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3800a3d58-d885-4f49-917f-a3b6dc309194

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref2538

Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

360 Pages

Container:

Box 32, Folder 1-15

Type:

Archival materials

Pages

Letters (correspondence)

Date:

1908-1919

Scope and Contents:

Letters between Charles Lang Freer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Charles Doolittle Walcott between April 13, 1908 and September 19, 1919. Topics include Freer's evolving bequest to the Smithsonian, his thoughts on the nature and goals of his museum, and the construction of the building in Washington, DC.

Freer accession number F1908.1908.17a

Letters between Charles Lang Freer and Charles D. Walcott

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically under correspondent.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 02.1Walcott

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc38f848f35-c653-49d0-98eb-a08523180c54

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref581

Creator:

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Names:

Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)  Search this

Smithsonian Institution -- Administration  Search this

Extent:

4 Items

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Alaska -- description and travel

Date:

1908-1913

Scope and Contents:

Four letters between Charles D. Walcott and others. Included are three 1908 letters from Herbert Adams to Charles Walcott, from Walcott to J. Scott Hartley, Secretary of the National Sculpture Society and from Hartley to Walcott, relating to the election of Herbert Adams as the representative of the National Sculpture Society to the Advisory Committee of the National Gallery of Art; and one letter from Frederick Dellenbaugh to Walcott, 1913, in which Dellenbaugh inquires if the Smithsonian Institution would be interested in purchasing oil sketches he painted during the Harriman Expedition to Alaska in 1899.

Biographical / Historical:

Charles D. Walcott (1850-1927) was an art administrator and geologist in Washington, D.C. Walcott served as the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 until his death in 1927.

Provenance:

Transferred 1981 and 2015 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ Portrait Gallery Library.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.

Occupation:

Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Painters  Search this

Geologists -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.walcchar

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw943837130-9be0-4f5c-a7e3-8ef5ddb37840

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-walcchar

Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

M. Knoedler & Co.  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Yamanaka & Company  Search this

Bacher, Otto H. (Otto Henry), 1856-1909  Search this

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959  Search this

Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905  Search this

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943  Search this

Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931  Search this

Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien, 1860-  Search this

Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918  Search this

Campbell, Colin, Lady, 1857-1911  Search this

Campbell, Colin, Lord, 1853-1895  Search this

Canfield, Richard A. (Richard Albert), 1855-1914  Search this

Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916  Search this

Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924  Search this

Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949  Search this

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966  Search this

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938  Search this

Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922  Search this

Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908  Search this

Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952  Search this

Gellatly, John, 1853-1931  Search this

Gookin, Frederick William  Search this

Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944  Search this

Hecker, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1846-1927  Search this

Kelekian, Dikran, 1868-1951  Search this

Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934  Search this

Matsuki, Bunkio, 1867-1940  Search this

McCormick, Frederick, 1870-  Search this

Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932  Search this

Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970  Search this

Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959  Search this

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942  Search this

Nomura, Yozo  Search this

Philip, Rosalind Birnie, 1873-1958  Search this

Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933  Search this

Reid, Alexander  Search this

Rhoades, Katharine N., 1885-1965  Search this

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919  Search this

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907  Search this

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921  Search this

Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Warring, Joseph Stephens, 1863?-1944  Search this

Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert), 1861-1913  Search this

Whistler, Beatrix Philip Godwin, d. 1896  Search this

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903  Search this

Wong, K. T.  Search this

Yue, Seaouke  Search this

Extent:

34 Microfilm reels

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

1876-1931

Scope and Contents:

Papers concerning Freer's art collecting activities, including correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs. In addition to Freer's own correspondence, the papers include correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler and of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, correspondence of Freer's assistant Katharine Nash Rhoades, and correspondence regarding Freer's bequest to the Smithsonian Institution.

Correspondence, ca. 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; 30 v. of letterpress books containing copies of letters sent, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler' mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer letters and regarding the settlement of his estate.

Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910;

Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art;

correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenellosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society.

Among Freer's correspondents are: Otto Bacher, Bernard Berenson, Siegfried Bing, Laurence Binyon, W.K. Bixby, Sigisbert Chretien Bosch-Reitz, Charles H. Caffin, Colin Campbell, Richard Canfield, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Stuart Church, Alfred Vance Churchill, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Arthur Wesley Dow, Ernest Fenollosa, Albert Gallatin, John Gellatly, Frederick W. Gookin, Sadakichi Hartmann, Frank J. Hecker, Dikran Kelekian, M. Knoedler & Co., Berthold Laufer, Lien Hui Ching Collection, W.A. Livingstone, Frederick McCormick, Bunkio Matsuki, Gari Melchers, Agnes Meyer, Eugene Meyer, Charles Moore, Yozo Nomura, Rosalind Birnie Philip, Charles A. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Stephens Warring, Thomas Way, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Dwight W. Tryon, Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution, Beatrix Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, K.T. Wong, Yamanaka & Co., and Seaouke Yue.

Arrangement:

All correspondence except letterpress books: arranged alphabetically by correspondent; letterpress books are chonological.

Biographical / Historical:

Art collector; Detroit, Michigan. Collected Asian, American, and European art, including a large collection of works by James McNeill Whistler. Founded the Freer Gallery of Art, which is now part of the Smithsonian Institution.

Provenance:

Selected for microfilming from the Charles Lang Freer papers at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Microfilmed 1992 by the Archives of American Art with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Fellowships and Grants Research Resources Program. Portions of the correspondence and the letterpress books were previously filmed by the Freer in the 1970 (AAA reels 77, 453-456, and 1217-1232); those reels have been replaced by this microfilming project. See Finding Aid for information on papers not selected for microfilming.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Topic:

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.freechar

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw975f501e2-91f7-48f7-82dc-03482afd00c1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-freechar

Creator:

Manly, Charles Matthews, 1876-1927  Search this

Names:

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940  Search this

Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930  Search this

Lahm, Frank Purdy, 1877-1963  Search this

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906  Search this

Manly, Charles Matthews, 1876-1927  Search this

Myers, Carl, 1842-1925  Search this

Post, Augustus  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Extent:

0.9 Cubic feet (2 legal document boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Publications

Correspondence

Programs

Clippings

Notebooks

Date:

1895-1925

bulk 1903-1915

Summary:

This collection consists of material relating to Manly's aeronautical career, specifically his work with Samuel Langley's Aerodrome. The material consists of programs, publications, newspaper clippings, work notebooks, waste books, (mostly letterpress) and correspondence between Manly and the aviation and Smithsonian communities, circa 1885-1925. Correspondents include the following personalities: Glenn Curtiss, Carl Myers, Charles Walcott, Frank Lahm, Cyrus Adler, Augustus Post, and Samuel Langley.

Scope and Contents:

This collection consists of material relating to Manly's aeronautical career, specifically his work with Samuel Langley's Aerodrome. The material consists of programs, publications, newspaper clippings, work notebooks, waste books, (mostly letterpress) and correspondence between Manly and the aviation and Smithsonian communities, circa 1885-1925. Correspondents include Samuel Langley, Charles Walcott and Richard Rathbun of the Smithsonian; Cyrus Adler, Glenn Curtiss, Benjamin D. Foulois, Carl Myers, Frank Lahm, and Augustus Post. Of particular interest is the correspondence between Manly and Smithsonian Secretary Charles Walcott on Manly's work on the preparation of the Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight for publication between 1908 to 1911; and his correspondence with Glenn Curtiss concerning the test flights of the rebuilt Great Aerodrome on Lake Keuka, Hammondsport, New York, in 1914, and the resulting controversy between the Smithsonian and Orville Wright.

Researchers may also wish to consult the National Air and Space Archives Division's Samuel P. Langley Collection (Accession No. XXXX-0494), and these collections held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives:

Record Unit 31, Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1866-1906, with related records to 1927.

Record Unit 34, Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1887-1907

Record Unit 7268, J. Elfreth Watkins Collection, 1869, 1881-1903, 1953, 1966 and undated.

Arrangement:

The Charles M. Manly Papers are organized in three series:

Series I --Letter Copy Books and Notebooks

Letter copy books were used to make and preserve copies of letters and memoranda --one placed a sheet of oiled paper under a page of the copy book, dampened the tissue copy page, then laid the original letter in the book under pressure for a few seconds. The quality of the copies ranges from quite readable to very faint. Because of the fragility of the paper, Archives Division staff should be consulted before working with the material.

The two notebooks in the series (Folder 4) were carried by Manly in his day to day work on the Aerodrome project and contain his notes on the progress of the work.

Series II --Correspondence

Letters in this series are arranged by year.

Series III --Additional Material

Newspaper clippings, Manly Family records, a photograph of Langley's Aerodrome No.5 in flight, and miscellaneous material.

Biographical/Historical note:

On May 9, 1898, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley wrote to Professor Robert Thurston of Cornell University, looking for a "young man who is morally trustworthy ('a good fellow') with some gumption and a professional training" to serve as Langley's assistant in his aeronautical work. Thurston recommended a senior majoring in electrical and mechanical engineering, Charles Matthews Manly (1876-1927) of Staunton, Virginia. Langley hired Manly and placed him in charge of the construction of his Great Aerodrome, the large manned aircraft being built under the sponsorship of the Army's Board of Ordnance and Fortification. One of Manly's main contributions to the project was his vastly improved redesign of Stephen M. Balzer's five-cylinder water-cooled radial gasoline engine. Manly piloted the Great Aerodrome on its two unsuccessful launch attempts in 1903. He resigned from the Smithsonian in 1905. Manly served as a consulting aviation engineer for different government agencies and corporations, including the British War Office, 1915; the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation 1915-1919 (from 1919-1920 as the assistant general manger); and as a member of the US Commission to the International Aircraft Conference, London, 1918. Manly also completed and edited Langley's Memoir on Mechanical Flight which was published by the Smithsonian in 1911. Manly was granted over fifty 50 patents relating to automotive transportation, power generation, and transmission. In 1929, Manly was posthumously awarded the Langley Medal for outstanding aeronautical achievements.

Provenance:

Brian Bailey, gift, 1998, 1999-0004, deed pending.

Restrictions:

No restrictions on access.

Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Topic:

Aeronautics -- 1903-1916  Search this

Airplanes -- Motors  Search this

Test pilots  Search this

Aeronautics  Search this

Langley Aerodrome Family  Search this

Genre/Form:

Publications

Correspondence

Programs

Clippings

Notebooks

Citation:

Charles M. Manly Papers, Acc. 1999-0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsoinan Institution.

Identifier:

NASM.1999.0004

See more items in:

Charles M. Manly Papers

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg214f16918-98d9-4f0a-8bf0-5d29f0e8fd55

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nasm-1999-0004

Collector:

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Creator:

Bottineau, Jno. B. (John B.)  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Names:

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Collection Collector:

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Scope and Contents:

Relating to efforts to place Hewitt on a contract basis with the B.A.E. Includes portion of letter probably to F. W. Hodge written after May 14, 1909, presenting Hewittʹs case. Also includes comment on Hewittʹs work by J. W. Powell, June 9, 1900; Charles D. Walcott to Senator Charles Curtis, January 16, 1911; copy of a letter, W. J. McGee to Hewitt, July 25, 1909; and J. B. Bottineau to Curtis, February 16, 1910.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1647(11)

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 1647, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

MS 1647 Miscellaneous materials by Hewitt and others

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f8064f74-a605-4c20-89a6-46fd87c68b32

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms1647-ref12

Creator:

Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949  Search this

Names:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949  Search this

Extent:

160 Items (Glass plate photonegatives, Box 1-13, 12.7x20.3 cm, 15.2x25.4 cm)

119 Items (Modern copy prints, Box 14-15, 12x19.5 cm)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Glass negatives, modern copy prints

Place:

Japan

China

Date:

circa 1904

Scope and Contents:

Bailey Willis Glass Plate Photonegatives Collection consists of 160 glass plate photonegatives and 119 modern copy prints mostly of Japanese subjects. Depicting Meiji-era Japan and traditional paintings, the photographs are attributed to the prominent American geologist Bailey Willis, who travelled to Japan in 1904 in his return trip from China to the U.S. From 1903 to 1904, Willis led a scientific expedition to China to conduct geological and paleontological investigations under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The expedition was proposed by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, who would become the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. After the expedition, the Smithsonian Institution took custody of 375 glass plate photonegatives taken by Willis during his Chinese expedition. The current Willis Collection does not retain Chinese glass plate photonegatives, which appear to be housed in the Huntington Library. Twelve original prints of China are in the Charles Lang Freer Papers, acquired by Freer directly from Willis. The Willis Collection richly documents Japanese local scenes, people, buildings, industries, agriculture, and art. It also contains a small number of Middle Eastern and Western images. These photographs are thought to be taken and/or purchased by Willis during his short stay in Japan in 1904, although there is no direct evidence that Willis was the original photographer of any or all of these. Since there are many views of locations that Willis never visited, it seems likely that the plates were acquired from another photographer.

Arrangement:

Box 1-3 Japanese paintings; Box 4-11 Japanese scenes; Box 12 Middle Eastern scenes, miscellaneous; Box 13 Western scenes, miscellaneous; Box 14 Japanese painting and scenes; Box 15 Japanese scenes

Biographical / Historical:

Bailey Willis was born at his parents' country estate at Idlewild-on-Hudson, near Cornwall, New York in 1857. He was the son of Nathaniel Parker Willis, a poet and journalist, and Cornelia (Grinnell) Willis of the prominent New England Grinnell family. His maternal granduncle, Henry Grinnell, was a benefactor of Arctic expeditions. His mother was instrumental in nurturing young Willis's interest in nature and exploration. After his father's death when Willis was ten years old, his mother, concerned about her son's "tendency to dream ineffectually," decided to train him in the stern disciplines of mathematics and science (Willis, A Yanqui in Patagonia 4). At the age of thirteen, Willis began schooling in Germany, where he received rigorous Prussian education.

Returning to New York in 1874, Willis entered the School of Mines at Columbia University, graduating with degrees in Mining Engineering in 1878 and Civil Engineering in 1879. After graduation Willis worked as an assistant for Raphael Pumpelly, a prominent geologist, by estimating iron and coal resources for the Northern Pacific Railroad. Geological work in the Pacific Northwest convinced Willis to support the preservation of Mount Rainier and its surroundings. The Mount Rainier National Park was established by law in 1899.

In 1882 Willis married his cousin Altona Holstein Grinnell. After her death in 1896, he married Margaret Delight Baker, daughter of anatomist Frank Baker. Margaret assisted Willis as draftsman and secretary.

Willis first earned international recognition as a geologist in the field of structural geology. Following the bankruptcy of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1884, Willis worked on assignments from the United States Geological Survey. While working in the southern Appalachian Mountains, he became interested in what had caused folding and faulting. By using laboratory experiments, Willis investigated the conditions causing the deformation of strata and published his new interpretation of the deformation in the report "The Mechanics of Appalachian Structure" (1893). This study established him as one of the country's leading structural geologists. His later book Geologic Structures (1923) went into three editions.

In addition to geological studies in the United States, Willis actively engaged himself in foreign expeditions throughout his life. From 1903 to1904, Willis led a scientific expedition to China under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. With Eliot Blackwelder, an associate geologist, and R. H. Sargent, a topographer, the expedition investigated the geomorphology, stratigraphy, and paleontology of the country. The result of the expedition appeared as Research in China in 1907, which won a gold medal from the Geographic Society of France. Furthermore, in recognition of this work, Willis was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Berlin in 1910. In the same year the Argentine government invited Willis to conduct a geological survey of Patagonia for the region's irrigation potential.

In 1915, at age 59, Willis accepted a position of Chairman of the Department of Geology at Stanford University, where he remained affiliated as a professor emeritus after his retirement. In California, Willis extended his research to the area of seismology, and served as President of the Seismological Society of America. Believing in the permanence of continents, he held an oppositional view to the continental drift theories. In 1949, Willis died in Palo Alto, California at age 91.

Local Numbers:

FSA A1991.06

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Geology  Search this

Photographs  Search this

Genre/Form:

Glass negatives, Modern copy prints

Citation:

Bailey Willis Glass Plate Photonegatives Collection, FSA.A1991.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Identifier:

FSA.A1991.06

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc32ea56c31-3dd6-4da9-9efe-f420d2e44969

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a1991-06

Creator:

National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources  Search this

Subject:

Bishop, Philip W  Search this

Gilbert, Chester Garfield  Search this

Schlebecker, John T  Search this

Daniel, Pete  Search this

Sharrer, G. Terry  Search this

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Reed, Fred C  Search this

Watkins, William N  Search this

Mitman, Carl Weaver 1889-  Search this

Lewton, Frederick L (Frederick Lewis) 1874-1959  Search this

Hoffman, John Nathan 1923-1982  Search this

Kendall, Edward C  Search this

Houston, Charles O (Charles Orville) 1918-2001  Search this

Richards, Abraham  Search this

Walther, R. G (Robert G.)  Search this

Wessel, Thomas R  Search this

United States National Museum Department of Mineral Technology  Search this

United States National Museum Department of Mechanical Technology  Search this

United States National Museum Section of Agricultural History  Search this

Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Industrial Cooperation  Search this

Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Agriculture and Wood Products  Search this

Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries  Search this

National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Extractive Industries  Search this

National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of the History of Technology  Search this

National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Agriculture and Mining  Search this

United States National Museum Division of Mineral Technology  Search this

United States National Museum Division of Mechanical Technology  Search this

United States National Museum Department of Arts and Industries  Search this

United States National Museum Division of Engineering  Search this

United States National Museum Division of Crafts and Industries  Search this

United States National Museum Division of Textiles  Search this

United States National Museum Department of Engineering and Industries  Search this

Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Department of Science and Technology  Search this

Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Department of Arts and Manufactures  Search this

National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Department of Industries  Search this

National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Manufacturing  Search this

Type:

Mixed archival materials

Date:

1904

1904-1994

1904-1995

Topic:

Mining engineering  Search this

Mineral industries--History  Search this

Agriculture--History  Search this

Local number:

SIA AH00248

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_222941

Creator:

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935  Search this

Subject:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)  Search this

Place:

Alaska -- description and travel

Citation:

Charles D. Walcott correspondence, 1908-1913. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Art organizations  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5762

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208601

AAA_collcode_walcchar

Theme:

Art organizations

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208601

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary  Search this

Uniform title:

Smithsonian Directives (Administrative issuances)  Search this

Subject:

Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906  Search this

Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this

Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) 1872-1973  Search this

Adams, Robert McC (Robert McCormick) 1926-2018  Search this

Carmichael, Leonard 1898-1973  Search this

Heyman, Ira Michael 1930-2011  Search this

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978  Search this

Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887  Search this

Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon) 1913-2001  Search this

Small, Lawrence M  Search this

Clough, G. Wayne  Search this

Samper, Cristián  Search this

Horvath, Albert G  Search this

Skorton, David J  Search this

Bunch, Lonnie G  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Administration  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

United States Congress  Search this

Physical description:

846.85 cu. ft. processed holdings

542.48 cu. ft. unprocessed holdings

Type:

Ephemera

Floor plans

Clippings

Black-and-white photographs

Brochures

Color photographs

Manuscripts

Pamphlets

Sketches

Video recordings

Compact discs

Drawings

Videotapes

Illustrations

Color negatives

Color transparencies

Audiotapes

Floppy disks

Electronic records

Electronic mail

Books

Architectural drawings

Digital versatile discs

Digital images

Newspapers

Date:

1835

1835-2019

Topic:

Museums--Administration  Search this

Budget  Search this

Personnel management  Search this

Smithsonian buildings  Search this

Museum buildings  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Museums--Collection management  Search this

Information technology  Search this

Committees  Search this

Gifts  Search this

Congresses and conventions  Search this

Strategic planning  Search this

Museums--Public relations  Search this

Museum finance  Search this

Museum publications  Search this

Real property  Search this

Estates (Law)  Search this

Contracts  Search this

Product management  Search this

Speeches, addresses, etc  Search this

Fund raising  Search this

Trusts and trustees  Search this

Research grants  Search this

Museums--Employees  Search this

Research  Search this

Awards  Search this

Tours  Search this

Corporate sponsorship  Search this

Special events  Search this

Wills  Search this

Local number:

SIA RS00771

Restrictions & Rights:

Materials less than 15 years old Restricted. Contact reference staff for details

See more items in:

Administrative Records 1835-2019 [Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary]

Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_220180

Creator:

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this

Stevenson, James, 1840-1888  Search this

Evans, Alexander H.  Search this

Correspondent:

Anderson, Larz, 1866-1937  Search this

Avery, Rachel Foster  Search this

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887  Search this

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952  Search this

Douglass, William Boone  Search this

Eagle, Mary K.  Search this

Gill, Mary W.  Search this

Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Hornaday, W.T.  Search this

Leidy, Joseph  Search this

McGee, Anita Newcomb, 1864-1940  Search this

Meredith, Virginia C.  Search this

Moseley, A.N.  Search this

Nordhoff-Jung, Sophie  Search this

Pollard, Henry L.  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915  Search this

Schweizer, Herman  Search this

True, Clara D.  Search this

Tylor, Edward Burnett  Search this

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927  Search this

Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896  Search this

Names:

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)  Search this

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

Depicted:

Carson, Kit, 1809-1868  Search this

Darwin, Charles  Search this

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870  Search this

Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887  Search this

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882  Search this

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891  Search this

Extent:

5 Linear feet

Culture:

Pueblo  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

ca. 1870-1910

Scope and Contents:

Most of Stevenson's scientific notes are included as separate items in the series of numbered manuscript and the papers of John Peabody Harrington. This particular set of materials is made up of papers that passed into the hands of the executor of her estate. It consists of a miscellany of letters, notes, legal documents, cartographic materials, genealogical materials, photographs, newspaper clippsing, other printed material, and other types of documents. Although tehc ollection largely concerns Stevenson, it also includes some material of her husband, James Stevenson, and members of her family, especially her father, Alexander H. Evans, a Washington, D.C. attorney.

Many of the documents concern Stevenson's field work among the Pueblo Indians and other official duties with the Smithsonian. some material relates to her activities with the World's Columbian Exposition and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A few items concern her membership in scientific organizations. Still other documents are of a personal nature, and some are mementoes, especially of James Stevenson. A significant group of documents concern Matilda CoxeStevenson's friendly and, later, very difficult relationship with Clara True.

The photographs include some items of ethnographic interest but it consists largely of portraits of James andMatilda Stevensonand Mrs. Stevenson's relatives. Also included are images in albums apparently gathered by Stevenson as a collector of photographs. They include images of Kit Carson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and William Tecumseh Shermn. In the albums are also a nubmer of photographic portraits with unidentified subjects, many of whom appear to be actors and actresses.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4689

Occupation:

Actors  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4689, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4689

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw307a40c65-b225-4d96-a204-990f2597324d

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4689

Author:

Unknown  Search this

Subject:

Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922  Search this

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Wright, Orville 1871-1948  Search this

Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912  Search this

Board of Regents  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Physical description:

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Group, candid

Place:

Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)

Date:

1910

Topic:

Langley Medal  Search this

Secretaries  Search this

Aeronautics--Awards  Search this

Inventors  Search this

Rewards (Prizes, etc.)  Search this

Regents  Search this

Awards  Search this

Medals  Search this

Standard number:

22184 or MAH-22184

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_10319

Author:

Unknown  Search this

Subject:

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Kubel, Stephen Joseph  Search this

Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896  Search this

Rizer, Henry C  Search this

Babb, Cyrus C  Search this

McGee, W. J. 1853-1912  Search this

Gilbert, Grove Karl 1843-1918  Search this

Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902  Search this

Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933  Search this

Physical description:

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Group, candid

Date:

1902

Topic:

Geologists  Search this

Brown, Amos P  Search this

Day, David T  Search this

Hayes, Charles Willard  Search this

Baker, Marcus  Search this

Pilling, James  Search this

Diller, J. S  Search this

Standard number:

75-5228

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_10522

Author:

Unknown  Search this

Subject:

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Brown, William L  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

United States National Museum  Search this

Physical description:

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Exhibit

Place:

Rocky Mountains

Date:

1935

Topic:

Taxidermy  Search this

Dioramas  Search this

Animals  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Secretaries  Search this

Collectors and collecting  Search this

Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation  Search this

Goats  Search this

Standard number:

SIA2010-1582 and 82-8053

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_11281

Author:

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927  Search this

Physical description:

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: Neg. 5" film; Type of Image: Landscape; Panaromic photographs Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Landscape

Panoramic photographs

Place:

Alberta

British Columbia

Canada

Banff National Park (Alta.)

Rocky Mountains

Yoho Valley (Alta.)

Mount Balfour (Alta.)

Mount Daly (Alta.)

Whaleback Mountain (Alta.)

Mount Niles (Alta.)

Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)

Date:

1909

Topic:

Burgess Shale (B.C.)  Search this

Paleontology  Search this

Canada  Search this

Photography, Panoramic  Search this

National parks and reserves  Search this

Mountains  Search this

Provincial parks and reserves  Search this

Parks  Search this

Scientific expeditions  Search this

Standard number:

Walcott 765f or 765f

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_11329