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Marconi Family Portraits, 1930s
- Notes
- Copies of other Marconi family photographs: OPPS Negs. 88-16398, 85-10239; 85-10237; 85-10238
- Guglielmo Marconi spent his entire life developing wireless communication into a practical reality
- Summary
- A photomechanical photograph (with plate marks, bearning Marconi's signature) of the Marchese Marconi and two photographic copy prints of the Marchese, the Marchesa, and their daughter Elettra Marconi. Also three copy photographs (in control file) made by OPPS, apparently from a loan
- Cite as
- Marconi Family Portraits, 1930s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Maria and Elletra Marconi
- Date
- 1930
- 1940
- 1930s
- 1930-1940
- 20th century
- collector
- Marconi, Guglielmo marchese 1874-1937
- subject
- Marconi, Elletra Princess
- Marconi, Maria Marchesa
- Subject
- Marconi family
- Local number
- 88-16398 (OPPS Neg., copy of collection photo.)
- 1986.3031 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection, ca. 1920-1975
- Notes
- Funaro was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.; undergraduate degree in biology (entomology), Cornell University, 1923; later taught foreign languages, mainly in high schools. Doctorate, Columbia University, 1958; dissertation on "The Gitano in Spanish Literature." De Wendler-Funaro was an avid amateur collector of insects, shells, minerals, stamps and coins. His interest in Gypsies focused on collection of language specimens, and photography. Apparently served as amanuensis to Steve Kaslov, a Rom Gypsy leader
- Summary
- Print and manuscript materials, photoprints and negatives, either created by de Wendler-Funaro or collected by him. Manuscripts include de Wendler-Funaro's dissertation, drafts of projected books, drafts of projected book dictated by Steve Kaslov. Print materials include those used by de Wendler-Funaro in his dissertation research, and newspaper articles, 1912-1974. Photographs include those taken by de Wendler-Funaro of Gypsies in the United States and Europe, 1922-1966, primarily 1937-1942. Photographs collected from Rom Gypsy families and commercial photographs, mainly of Gypsies in Europe, are also included
- An important aspect of the photographer's work and of the value of this collection is the emphasis on the ethnic diversity of Gypsy groups, countering the inaccurate notion that all Gypsies or all American Gypsies are a homogeneous group--the Rom or Roma. The collection demonstrates ethnic and cultural distinctions among the various Gypsies represented, such as the Rom, Ludar, Romnichels, etc
- Publications
- See review of the film, "American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land," by Matt T. Salo in American Anthropologist, Vol. 102, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 353-354
- Smithsonian educational web site, part of "Migrations in History," at http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/gyp/cdwf.html
- Cite as
- Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1920
- 1975
- ca 1920-1975
- 1920-1980
- 1930-1950
- 1920-1970
- 20th century
- 1900-1950
- photographer
- Wendler-Funaro, Carlos de (language teacher also known as Carl Funaro) 1898-1985
- Alland, Alexander Sr (Alexander Landschaft) 1902-1989
- author
- Kaslov, Steve King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies ca. 1888-1949
- Salo, Sheila
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Kaslov, Steve King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies ca. 1888-1949
- Kaslov, Pupa
- Jura, Chaiko Gypsy leader
- Local number
- 1986.3054 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Donald H. Sultner-Welles Collection : audiotapes, manuscripts, photographs, prints, 1945-1980 (bulk), ca. 1790-1981 (incl.)
- Notes
- Donald Harvey Sultner, from York, Pa., graduated from the Wharton School in 1936. Originally pursuing a singing career on the East Coast, in 1952, he began giving illustrated talks to small gatherings. In 1954 as a German government guest he gave slide-lectures on America; in 1959 he was a USIS-sponsored lecturer in Asia. Returning to America, Sultner performed "photo-concerts" around the country, later worked for Holland-America Cruises. He performed at Chautauqua, the Williamsburg Antiques Garden Forums, Ladew Topiary Gardens, etc.; and the Baltimore Symphony commissioned "Concertino for Camera and Orchestra," dedicated to and premiered by Sultner with the Symphony in March 1979
- Summary
- Personal and business records and photographs of the lecturer-photographer Donald Sultner-Welles. The photographic record documents Sultner's world travels and forms the imagery on which his "photo-concerts" were based. Includes audio tapes of his concerts, impressions of his trips, and interviews with friends at home and abroad (an unusual tape-recorded interview with Erna Hanfstaengl includes her recollections of her personal relationship with Adolf Hitler)
- Includes Sultner's passport
- 2011 addendum: four cubic feet of Sultner-Welles' correspondence, ca. 1957-1980
- Cite as
- Donald H. Sultner-Welles Collection, ca. 1790-1981, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1790
- ca 1790-1981 incl
- 1945-1980 bulk
- 1950-2000
- 1300-1980
- 20th century
- 1940-1980
- 1930-1950
- donor
- Sultner-Welles, Donald H (Sultner, Donald Harvey) 1914-1981
- Eyster, Steve
- photographic printer
- Janus, Allan Cibachrome prints from Sultner-Welles transparencies, Series 12
- interviewee
- Hanfstaengl, Erna
- Subject
- Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945
- Holland-America Cruises
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Chautauqua Institute
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Local number
- 1986.3107 (NMAH Acc.)
- Pending (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Ira L. Hill Portrait Photonegatives, 1912-1953 (bulk 1925-1931)
- Notes
- Hill opened a New York studio ca. 1905; "the Cecil Beaton of his time in New York," he photographed the wealthy and socially prominent in his studio and documented social events around the country. He photographed celebrities such as Helen Hayes and Tallulah Bankhead, and published frequently in magazines. He married a succession of five debutantes. Ray Martin worked for Hill, 1936-1938, purchased the studio and ran it until ca. 1960
- Although some sources give Hill's date of death as 1938, an article in the New York Times, Nov. 21, 1939, describes the arrest of "Society Photographer" Ira L. Hill after a fight at the home of his ex-wife
- Summary
- Series 1: Primarily glass and film photonegatives, ca. 1920's-1940's, approx. 86,000; most are studio portraits, many heavily retouched. Most portraits are 5" x 7", although some are larger. Also several hundred 8" x 10" negatives which seem non-commercial and depict vacation outings, camping trips, etc. Film negatives all seem to be safety base. Includes portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt
- Series 2: Card files bear sitting information, including subjects' names, sitting dates, fees charged, and catalog numbers which correspond to the photograph numbers
- Cite as
- Ira L. Hill Portrait Photonegatives, 1912-1953, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Ray Martin
- Date
- 1912
- 1953
- 1912-1953
- bulk 1925-1931
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- photographer
- Hill, Ira L (Ira Lawrence) 1877-1947
- donor
- Martin, Ray
- collector
- Photographic History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Subject
- Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962
- Local number
- 1981.0463 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Scientist Portrait Collection, ca. 1870-1900
- Summary
- 12 photoprints: portraits of various scientists and scholars, including Irish, French, English, and German men. All are on cabinet-size mounts, nine being silver albumen cabinet prints, while three are silver gelatin prints
- Cite as
- Scientist Portrait Collection, Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1870
- 1900
- ca 1870-1900
- 19th century
- 1850-1900
- vendor
- Harris Auction Galleries (Baltimore, Md.)
- photographer
- Petit, Pierre
- Pirou, Eug
- White, Sydney Victor
- Wilhelm
- Lord, R. H
- photographers
- Elliott and Fry
- Hills & Saunders
- Subject
- Ball, Sir Robert Stawell astronomer (1840-1913) Irish
- Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond physicist (1820-1891) French
- Bernard, Claude physiologist (1813-1878) French
- Charcot, Jean Martin physician professor (1825-1893)
- Eyre, Edward John explorer (1815-1901)
- Gilbert, Sir Joseph Henry professor (1817-1901) English
- Gilchrist, Sidney Thomas metallurgist inventor (1850-1885) English
- Marvin, W. Chas
- Garner, R. E. naturalist professor
- Schwalbe, Gustav anatomist anthropologist (1844-1917) German
- Waldstein, Charles archaeologist (1856-1927)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Lynn Turner Family Photographs, ca. 1865-1918
- Notes
- These photographs are from the family of Ms. Evelyn (Lynn) Turner
- Summary
- These family photographs include some nineteenth-century material (tintypes and cabinet prints, all portraits), but most items are from about 1900-1918. Studio portraits and amateur snapshots are included. Most of the snapshots mounted in two albums seem to have been taken in and around Washington, D.C., and include familiar buildings and scenery
- Photographers represented include (?) Applegate, J. B. Bairstow, and Filson & Son
- Cite as
- Lynn Turner Family Photographs, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1865
- ca 1865-1918
- 19th century
- 1860-1920
- 1850-1900
- 1900-1950
- 1900-1920
- donor
- Turner, Lynn
- photographer
- Applegate
- Bairstow, J. B
- photographers
- Filson & Son
- Subject
- Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Institution
- Local number
- 1986.3063 (NMAH Acc. )
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Dorothy H. Christian Collection, 1881; 1913-1934
- Notes
- Dorothy Christian's father was secretary to President Warren G. Harding. The three books illustrate, to a small extent, events of interest to a woman in the social world of Washington, D.C. in the 1920s
- Summary
- 3 books and 2 photographs
- Book: "The Kitchen Diary: Your Daily Friend" (Chicago: P. F. Volland & Co., 1913) contains birth dates, addresses and appointments--sporadic entries, 1921-1934
- Book: "The Shakespeare Birthday Book" (Mary F. P. Dunbar, ed., London, 1881) has a quotation from Shakespeare for every day in the year; scattered throughout the book are names of relatives and friends
- Book: "Some One Like You" by James W. Foley: five pages of poetry and five illustrations, copyrighted 1916, with a box
- Photographs: Two small portrait photographs, one dated 1923, found in "The Kitchen Diary," are stored separately
- Cite as
- Dorothy H. Christian Collection, ca. 1881-1934, Archives Center,National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1881
- 1881-1934
- 1881 1913-1934
- 1920-1930
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Christian, Dorothy H
- author
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
- Foley, James W
- collector
- Political History, Division of (NMAH)
- Subject
- Harding, Warren G (Warren Gamaliel) 1865-1923
- Local number
- 1986.3145 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sproul Observatory Astronomers Photoprints, 1916-1975
- Notes
- No background information supplied by donor. Apparently these photographs were accumulated in the files of the Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College, over a period of years. They form a visual record of astronomers and attendees at astronomical meetings from 1916 to 1975
- Summary
- 17 photoprints and 1 key drawing identifying figures depicted in 1 group photograph. Most of the pictures are group portraits of participants at American Astronomical Society and I.A.U. [International Astronomical Union?] meetings, although there are also several other group photographs taken at Johns Hopkins University and Swarthmore College, and an autographed photo of "Roy W. Delaplaine at 24-inch refractor [telescope]..."
- Cite as
- Sproul Observatory Astronomers Photoprints, 1917-1975, AC NMAH Collection No. 251
- Date
- 1916
- 1916-1975
- 20th century
- collector
- Swarthmore College Sproul Observatory Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
- Creator
- Gaustad, John E. Director, Sproul Observatory
- collector
- Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)
- Subject
- Delaplaine, Roy W. astronomer
- Columbia University
- subject
- Swarthmore College Sproul Observatory Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1916
- Subject
- American Astronomical Society 1916-1975
- Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire
- Yerkes Observatory Williams Bay, Wisconsin
- Cincinnati Observatory Cincinnati, Ohio
- Northwestern University Dearborn Observatory Evanston, Illinois
- Local number
- 1986.3189 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Marshall Sylvia Amateur Snapshot Collection, 1936-1937
- Notes
- As the donor did not supply identification with the photographs, nothing is known about them except for captions and marks on the backs of the prints
- Summary
- Amateur snapshots of people and places, processed by commercial photofinishers. Typical range of snapshot subjects, such as a wedding group, informal portraits, including people with automobiles, landscapes and waterfalls (including the Temperance River and Gooseberry Falls), and a costume party. Some prints are hand-colored. Some identified in pencil on verso. The dates 1936 and 1937 are included on some, and some are identified as processed by Brown Photo Service, Minneapolis, Minn., and La Crosse Film Service, Wisconsin, so possibly many of the subjects are in Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Cite as
- Marshall Sylvia Amateur Snapshot Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1936
- 1936-1937
- 1930-1940
- donor
- Sylvia, Marshall
- photofinisher
- Brown Photo Service Minneapolis, Minn.
- La Crosse Film Service La Crosse, Wis.
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Scientists and Inventors Portrait File: photoprints
- Notes
- The original images represented by these photographic copies include early engravings, paintings, etc., and nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographic and photomechanical images
- Summary
- COPY PRINTS ONLY, NOT ORIGINAL MATERIAL.: Copies of selected portraits of scientists and inventors, compiled by curatorial staffs in the National Museum of American History and other Smithsonian bureaus, forming a reference print file of OPPS negative numbers to facilitate ordering prints and as a guide to original material in curatorial collections, but poorly documented here. Many copied from reproductions in books, magazines, and newspapers, rather than from originals in collections. Most curatorial staffs do not acquire portraits systematically, and these pictures often were acquired merely to illustrate staff publications or exhibits. The file is made available as a convenience to researchers, but does not include the type of original material which the Archives Center usually collects
- Cite as
- Scientists and Inventors Portrait File, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1850
- 1960
- 19th-20th century
- compiler
- Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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