Currently stored in box 2.1.9 [63]. Company catalog card included.
NOTE: RSN 9756 UNUSED!
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. The original glass plate is available for inspection if necessary in the Archives Center. A limited number of fragile glass negatives and positives in the collection can be viewed directly in the Archives Center by prior appointment. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
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Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Currently stored in box 2.1.9 [63]. Company catalog card included.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. The original glass plate is available for inspection if necessary in the Archives Center. A limited number of fragile glass negatives and positives in the collection can be viewed directly in the Archives Center by prior appointment. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
In 1951, while researching the south-western area of Nigeria, in what today is Osun state, Dr. Turner visited the city of Ife. He photographed the palace of the Ooni of Ile-Ife at the time Sir Titus Martins Adesoji Tadeniawo Aderemi. He was born on November 15, 1889, to Osundeyi Gbadebo of the ruling house of Ile-Ife. An Ifa (system of divination) diviner predicted that the baby would wear the crown of his ancestors.
Adesoji Aderemi enrolled in the local Anglican primary school, St. Phillips School. After graduation, he studied by correspondence with an overseas school and received private lessons from a cleric. He worked for several years in the Civil Service. He then went into business for himself after working as the representative for several foreign companies such as United Africa Company and John Holt to learn the international trade business.
On September 2, 1930, he became the Ooni of Ile-Ife. It was remarked that he was the first literate Ooni. He was a champion of education and was behind the foundation of Oduduwa College in 1932. He also advocated for the creation of the University of Ife.
His reign was remarkably peaceful, and many advancements brought to Ile-Ife, such as telephone services and waterworks, contributed to its people's well-being and economic development. Upon his death on July 3, 1980, he left behind 11 wives and 64 surviving children.
In 1951, while researching the south-western area of Nigeria, in what today is Osun state, Dr. Turner visited the city of Ife. He photographed the palace of the Ooni of Ile-Ife at the time Sir Titus Martins Adesoji Tadeniawo Aderemi. He was born on November 15, 1889, to Osundeyi Gbadebo of the ruling house of Ile-Ife. An Ifa (system of divination) diviner predicted that the baby would wear the crown of his ancestors.
Adesoji Aderemi enrolled in the local Anglican primary school, St. Phillips School. After graduation, he studied by correspondence with an overseas school and received private lessons from a cleric. He worked for several years in the Civil Service. He then went into business for himself after working as the representative for several foreign companies such as United Africa Company and John Holt to learn the international trade business.
On September 2, 1930, he became the Ooni of Ile-Ife. It was remarked that he was the first literate Ooni. He was a champion of education and was behind the foundation of Oduduwa College in 1932. He also advocated for the creation of the University of Ife.
His reign was remarkably peaceful, and many advancements brought to Ile-Ife, such as telephone services and waterworks, contributed to its people's well-being and economic development. Upon his death on July 3, 1980, he left behind 11 wives and 64 surviving children.
Petersburg, on the headwaters of a little creek, about 2.5-3.0 miles SW of town, above the cit waterworks reservoirs, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States
1 Film reel (silent black-and-white and color reversal; 770 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 2000.6.1-4
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
circa 1946-1951
Scope and Contents:
This film footage was shot in Victoria Falls, Matobo National Park, Esigodini (formerly Essexvale), and Bulawayo (Zimbabwe).
The first film roll contains images of the Blue Mountains; a sea plane, boat docks and military brass and white folks debarking; Victoria Falls with a rainbow from the mist; wildlife (giraffe, antelope, and zebra) filmed from a close proximity; filming from a plane (as a geologist, Sharpstone was interested in the topography of the land and liked to film it from the air): flatlands, river, and mountains; an expanse of lawn by a river (possibly the grounds of the Victoria Falls Hotel); white houses; Africans dancing with a couple of men playing drums; and elephants. This film is shot somewhere along what was called the Khami road to Motopos where Cecil John Rhodes is buried. The people dancing are probably from a nearby kraal. Sometimes tribespeople would wait along the way and perform for money.
The second film roll includes, in Bulawayo (a town at the base of cliffs), a western style park with flora, a white colonial building, a landscape, a mountain range, a road, desert flora, white uniformed men along a "parade" route in a town, and a sign: "George Cumming & Co The Statue Corner Outfitters"; along the road to Matobo National park, a sign: "To the Grave and World's View"; at Matobo National Park, African women selling red beads to Ramah Sharpstone, David and Ramah with friends on a rock outcropping with rounded boulders, and signs indicating the graves of Cecil John Rhodes and Leander Starr Jameson: "Here Lie the Remains of Cecil John Rhodes" and "Here Lies Leander Starr Jameson"; on the road to the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, a sign: "Great Zimbabwe Ruins" and Ramah posing in the 1946 Packard she was driving; at the ruins, a guard preventing visitors from removing stones and Ramah and David exploring the ruins with their friends and sitting on an elevated area nearby; on the road back to Bulawayo, Ramah and her friends posing in front of a flame tree, a group of tourists horseback riding, a farmer plowing his fields with oxen, and sunset; in Esigodini (formerly Essexvale), a large baobab tree, Ramah in front of an Essexvale sign, a small colonial town, a garden with a green house, Ramah walking around the garden, and driving through town; on the road, Ramah walking along a stone wall, red soil and more hills, and a herd of black and white goats; the Zambezi River; and by the N'Cema waterworks, a sign: "Municipality of Bulawayo N'Cema waterworks area no admission…", Ramah sitting on the wall of a lookout over the Zambezi River, the garden around the waterworks buildings, Ramah posing in the garden, and local tribespeople in western dress passing them on the road.
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The David Collier Sharpstone films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Alexandra Sharpstone, who provided much of the descriptive information in this finding aid.
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Search this
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry Search this
Extent:
20.4 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 82 folders)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Notebooks
Scrapbooks
Drawings
Letterpress books
Diaries
Blueprints
Account books
Place:
Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
Date:
1871-1917
Summary:
Tracings on linen of steam engines of all types, pumping, histing, air compressing, mining, material handling, power transmission, mine structures, mining machinery, and buildings by Erasmus D. Leavitt, Jr. for Calumet Heclas, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan.
Scope and Contents note:
These papers contain engineering drawings by Leavitt from the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company including tracings and blueprints of 2000 to 8000 horsepower compound hoisting engines, 1889-1917; hoisting plants, 1891-1901; shaft hoisting gear, 1887-1902; Calumet & Hecla compressor houses, 1877-1882; waterworks; and electric plants. Also included are notebooks containing engine drawings and calculations; account books, 1885; a diary; a letterpress volume of sketches and office memoranda, 1884-1890; scrapbooks.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into one series by drawing number. Descriptions contain a category designation beginning with a letter. For example, drawings associated with Torch Lake in Michigan are desginated as Category K. In some instances, the drawings are categorized as XY with no further description or are un-numbered.
Series 1: Drawings
A Pumping Engine No. 2
B Boiler House and Gear House
C Gearing for Pump and Man Engine
D Hoisting Engine No. 1, Hecla Mine
E Calumet Mine General
F Calumet Pond Water Works
G Hecla Mine General
H No. 4 Stamp for Calumet Mill
I Calumet & Helca Mine General
J Calumet Hoisting Gear
K Torch Lake
L Hoisting Engine "Superior"
M Miscellaneous Engine Parts
N Pumping Engine "Arcadian"
O Engine "Wabeek"
P Pumping Engine "Ontario"
Q Hoisting Engine "Frontenac"
R Engine "Erie"
S Engine "Hecla"
T Pumping Engine No. 1
U Black Hills Hoisting Gear
V Hoisting Engines "Gratiot", "Houghton" & "Seneca"
W Pumping Engines "Michigan" & "Winnipeg"
X Hoisting Engines "Minong" & "Siscowitt"
Y Hoisting Engines "Mesnard & Pontiac"
Z Hoisting Engines "Hancock" & "Pewabic"
AA Sinking Engines "Delaware" & "Iroquois"
BB Compressor Engine "Mackinac"
CC Compressor Engine "Baraga"
DD Lake Superior Water Works
EE Hoisting Engines "Marquette" & Chippewa"
FF Hoisting Engines "Minnesota" & "Escanaba" and "Illinois" & "Wisconsin"
GG Misc. City of Boston Improved Sewerage Pumping Engine
The Calumet & Hecla Company, which was formed in about 1866, was one of the largest mining operations in the Lake Superior region of upper Michigan. Over 3 billion pounds of copper were removed from its extensive mines by the time operations ceased in 1939. To facilitate the work in both the mines and smelting plants, the company installed some the largest steam engines ever built. The aggregate amounted to over 55,000 horsepower.
Noted 19th century steam engineer Erasmus Darwin Leavitt was hired to design the series of huge multi-cylinder engines. Each had sufficient power to support several operations at one time. While an engine drove one of the hoists, it might also power pumping, conveying, and air compressing machinery. At the peak of operations there were at least 50 steam engines of all sizes providing power to Calumet & Hecla. Falling copper prices during the 1920s and the economic depression of the 1930s ultimately forced the mines to close. The engines were of no further use and their countless tons of cast iron and steel ended up in the scrap drives of World War II.
The collection came to the Smithsonian in 1960 from Calumet & Hecla, Inc. In the course of a reorganization in 1952 mining had been dropped from the company name as the emphasis was on chemicals, foundry work, and forest products. Its remaining mining activites in other areas of Michigan were phased out during the 1960s and in 1968 C&H merged with Universal Oil Prodcuts, Inc. Late in 1970 UOP scrapped what was left of the C&H physical plant and its remaining assests were auctioned off.
Related Materials:
Materials at Other Organizations
Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper COuntry Hihstorical Collections
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Collection
Provenance:
Collection materials donated by Calumet and Hecla, Inc. in 1960 and by Thomas E. P. Rice, 1977.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Richard York Gallery records, circa 1865-2005, bulk 1981-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care Fund
Devil's Race Course on Rt. B13 between Waterworks and Benbow; in open forest on steep hill side with Clethra, Byrsonima, Phyllanthus, Ateramnus, Plumeria, etc., Saint Catherine, Jamaica, West Indies - Neotropics
