Sep/100
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee
A few nice culture images I found:
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Taken the month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. June 1925
Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 3 in x 4.25 in
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1925
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5296
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial Photographs – During 1925, Watson Davis (1896-1967), Science Service managing editor, took numerous photographs while covering the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial as a reporter. In what was dubbed "The Trial of the Century," Scopes was tried and convicted for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. William Jennings Bryan served on the prosecution team, and Clarence Darrow defended Scopes. Almost eighty years later, the nitrate negatives, including portraits of trial participants, and images from the trial itself and significant places in Dayton, were discovered in archival material donated to the Smithsonian by Science Service in 1971. Marcel C. LaFollette, an independent scholar, historian and Smithsonian volunteer uncovered these rare, previously unpublished photographs of the 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA). In 2005, SIA restored fifty-two of the negatives with funds granted by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. Included here are thirty-nine of the images. All images belong to the Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965 collection of SIA. All photographs were taken by Watson Davis, Managing Editor of Science Service, while he was in Dayton, Tennessee, June 4-5, 1925, and July 10-22, 1925. LaFollette identified and dated each of these images, and has published a new book highlighting these and other images from the trial entitled, Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century, University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Accession number: SIA2008-1124
2005 Powwow
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Powwows are large social gatherings of Native Americans who follow traditional dances started centuries ago by their ancestors, and which continually evolve to include contemporary aspects. These events of drum music, dancing, singing, artistry and food, are attended by Natives and non-Natives, all of whom join in the dancing and take advantage of the opportunity to see old friends and teach the traditional ways to a younger generation. During the National Powwow, the audience see dancers in full regalia compete in several dance categories, including Men and Women’s Golden Age (ages 50 and older); Men’s Fancy Dance, Grass and Traditional (Northern and Southern); Women’s Jingle Dress, Fancy Shawl, and Traditional (Northern and Southern); Teens (13-17); Juniors (6-12) and Tiny Tots (ages 5 and younger). The drum groups are the heart of all powwows and provide the pulsating and thunderous beats that accompany a dancer’s every movement. The powwow is led by three "host drums" that showcase three distinct styles of singing (Northern, Southern and contemporary) and represent the best examples of each style. The drum contest highlights groups of 10 to 12 members each, and they sing traditional family songs that are passed down orally from one generation to the next. The National Museum of the American Indian sponsored the National Powwow in 2002, 2005, and 2007 as a way of presenting to the public the diversity and social traditions of contemporary Native cultures.
Creator/Photographer: R.A. Whiteside
Medium: Digital photograph
Culture: American Indian
Geography: USA
Date: 2005
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3673&q=081405RWPWNMAIc+063
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian
Accession number: 081405RWPWNMAIc 063
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, High School
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Taken the month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. June 1925
Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 4.25 in x 3 in
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1925
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5295
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial Photographs – During 1925, Watson Davis (1896-1967), Science Service managing editor, took numerous photographs while covering the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial as a reporter. In what was dubbed "The Trial of the Century," Scopes was tried and convicted for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. William Jennings Bryan served on the prosecution team, and Clarence Darrow defended Scopes. Almost eighty years later, the nitrate negatives, including portraits of trial participants, and images from the trial itself and significant places in Dayton, were discovered in archival material donated to the Smithsonian by Science Service in 1971. Marcel C. LaFollette, an independent scholar, historian and Smithsonian volunteer uncovered these rare, previously unpublished photographs of the 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA). In 2005, SIA restored fifty-two of the negatives with funds granted by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. Included here are thirty-nine of the images. All images belong to the Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965 collection of SIA. All photographs were taken by Watson Davis, Managing Editor of Science Service, while he was in Dayton, Tennessee, June 4-5, 1925, and July 10-22, 1925. LaFollette identified and dated each of these images, and has published a new book highlighting these and other images from the trial entitled, Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century, University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Accession number: SIA2008-1123
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Sep/101
Amazing Culture photos
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Temple Court off D Street and Delaware, SW, Washington, D. C…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260023. Temple Court off D Street and Delaware, SW, Washington, D. C.. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Washington, D.C. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Sep/100
Sweet Culture photos
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House in the area being taken over by the army; The family w…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260080. House in the area being taken over by the army; The family will be moved out in a few days, Caroline County, Va., June, 1941.. Delano, Jack — Photographer. Jume 1941
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Virginia. / Jack Delano. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Sep/100
Amazing Culture images
A few nice culture images I found:
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff were responsible for collecting and duplicating images brought back by scientists and curators traveling on business in other cities throughout the world, many of which often described the structures of other museums.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum’s installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Date: 1890
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2086&q=RU95_Box76_053
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) – Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Accession number: RU95_Box76_053
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Howard Gale Byrd, outside the Defense Mansion.
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Taken during the time of the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee. The Defense Mansion was a Victorian house where the defense team and witnesses stayed during the trial. July 1925
Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 4.25 in x 3 in
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1925
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5290
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial Photographs – During 1925, Watson Davis (1896-1967), Science Service managing editor, took numerous photographs while covering the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial as a reporter. In what was dubbed "The Trial of the Century," Scopes was tried and convicted for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. William Jennings Bryan served on the prosecution team, and Clarence Darrow defended Scopes. Almost eighty years later, the nitrate negatives, including portraits of trial participants, and images from the trial itself and significant places in Dayton, were discovered in archival material donated to the Smithsonian by Science Service in 1971. Marcel C. LaFollette, an independent scholar, historian and Smithsonian volunteer uncovered these rare, previously unpublished photographs of the 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA). In 2005, SIA restored fifty-two of the negatives with funds granted by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. Included here are thirty-nine of the images. All images belong to the Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965 collection of SIA. All photographs were taken by Watson Davis, Managing Editor of Science Service, while he was in Dayton, Tennessee, June 4-5, 1925, and July 10-22, 1925. LaFollette identified and dated each of these images, and has published a new book highlighting these and other images from the trial entitled, Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century, University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Accession number: SIA2008-1117
Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee,…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260215. Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1939.. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer. October 1939
Notes: Original negative #: 30638-M2
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Tennessee. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Aug/103
Sweet Culture photos
A few nice culture images I found:
1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, at Lincoln Memorial
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: 89-2821.15, 1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, at Lincoln Memorial, from 35mm color negative.
Creator/Photographer: Jeff Tinsley
Medium: C-type print
Culture: American
Date: 1989
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5699
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives/Smithsonian Photographic Services
Accession number: 89-2821.15
Negative
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Photographer: Frederick Johnson (Fred Johnson), Non-Indian, 1904-1994
Subject: Dick King, Potawatomi [Parry Island, Ontario]
Date Created: Summer 1928
Catalog Number: N14406
Format: Acetate negative
Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.
Collection History: Frederick Johnson began his anthropological studies as a teenager, accompanying anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1951) on trips to Native communities in Quebec. Between 1923 and 1929, Johnson studied at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted several research trips in Canada, some of which were sponsored by MAI. His photographs came to the MAI as an accompaniment to the objects he acquired for the Museum.
Description: Outdoor portrait of the man (Dick King, a chief?) wearing a fringed hide or cloth shirt, and beaded or embroidered hat, holding war club (162617.000) and dance rattles (162620.000) in the NMAI Collection. He stands in a field with small shed and woods in the background. See N14413 for a similar image
Place: Parry Island Reserve; Parry Sound District; Ontario; Canada
Archipelago: Great Lakes Islands
Island Grouping: Georgian Bay Islands
Island Name: Parry Island
Culture/People: Potawatomi [Parry Island, Ontario]
Culture Hierarchy: Potawatomi>Potawatomi [Parry Island, Ontario]
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=353025
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
Aug/104
Cool Culture images
Some cool culture images:
Transparency
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Photographer: Carmelo Guadagno (Jimmy Guadagno), Non-Indian
Subject: Museum of the American Indian – Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989
Date Created: circa 1960
Catalog Number: Tno52
Dimensions: 4 x 5 in.
Collection History: Carmelo Guadagno was MAI’s staff photographer from the 1950s through the mid 1980s; and besides photographing objects in the collections, he also documented MAI’s exhibits and other work. These images, which document MAI’s history, remain part of NMAI’s Photographic Archives.
Description: 1st Floor: Exhibit case showing Blackfoot objects and clothing, Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation
Place: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA
Site Name: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway
Island Name: Manhattan Island
Culture/People: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
Culture Hierarchy: Northern Plains>Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=295138
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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Negative
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Photographer: David Sinclair, Non-Indian
Subject: Museum of the American Indian, Research Branch (Annex), 1926-1989
Date Created: 1935
Catalog Number: N21653
Format: Acetate negative
Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.
Collection History: Presumably commissioned by George Heye to document the early work of the Museum of the American Indian.
Description: Side view of a concrete replica of a Blackfoot tipi on Research Branch grounds, Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, with painted geometric designs, open entry, and dwellings and fence in background.
Place: Research Branch, Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation; New York City, Bronx, Pelham Bay; Bronx County; New York; USA
Site Name: Research Branch, Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation
Culture/People: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
Culture Hierarchy: Northern Plains>Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=345786
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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This family moved out of an army area in Caroline County, th…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260078. This family moved out of an army area in Caroline County, that had to be evacuated by June; Now they are in an area that must be evacuated by September, and so are planning to move again, Caroline County, Va., June 1941.. Delano, Jack — Photographer. June 1941
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Virginia. / Jack Delano. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260078
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Aug/104
[African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day l...
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[African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day l...
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260029. [African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, riding a mule and holding down a sack of cotton in the cotton field at Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer. October 1939
Notes: Original negative #: 30542-M3; Caption on back: ”Riders’ bring in the sacks of cotton on mule’s back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive 75 cents per 100 pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. October 1939.’
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Mississippi. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff were responsible for collecting and duplicating images brought back by scientists and curators traveling on business in other cities throughout the world, many of which often described the structures of other museums.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum’s installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Date: 1890
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2155&q=RU95_Box76_101
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) – Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Accession number: RU95_Box76_101
2002 Powwow
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Powwows are large social gatherings of Native Americans who follow traditional dances started centuries ago by their ancestors, and which continually evolve to include contemporary aspects. These events of drum music, dancing, singing, artistry and food, are attended by Natives and non-Natives, all of whom join in the dancing and take advantage of the opportunity to see old friends and teach the traditional ways to a younger generation. During the National Powwow, the audience see dancers in full regalia compete in several dance categories, including Men and Women’s Golden Age (ages 50 and older); Men’s Fancy Dance, Grass and Traditional (Northern and Southern); Women’s Jingle Dress, Fancy Shawl, and Traditional (Northern and Southern); Teens (13-17); Juniors (6-12) and Tiny Tots (ages 5 and younger). The drum groups are the heart of all powwows and provide the pulsating and thunderous beats that accompany a dancer’s every movement. The powwow is led by three "host drums" that showcase three distinct styles of singing (Northern, Southern and contemporary) and represent the best examples of each style. The drum contest highlights groups of 10 to 12 members each, and they sing traditional family songs that are passed down orally from one generation to the next. The National Museum of the American Indian sponsored the National Powwow in 2002, 2005, and 2007 as a way of presenting to the public the diversity and social traditions of contemporary Native cultures.
Creator/Photographer: R.A. Whiteside
Medium: Digital photograph
Culture: American Indian
Geography: USA
Date: 2002
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3755&q=S2-25
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian
Accession number: S2-25
Aug/102
Amazing Culture photos
Some cool culture images:
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Outdoor proceedings on July 20, 1925, showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. [3 of 4 photos]
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: William Jennings Bryan (seated at left) being interrogated by Clarence Seward Darrow, during the trial of the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, July 20, 1925. That Monday afternoon, because of the extreme heat, Judge Raulston moved court proceedings outdoors. The session was held on a platform that had been erected at the front of the Rhea County Courthouse to accommodate ministers who wanted to preach during the time of the trial. Defense lawyers for Scopes (John R. Neal, Arthur Garfield Hays, and Dudley Field Malone) are visible seated to the extreme right. One of the men at left, with his back to the photographer, appears to be Scopes. The court reporters are seated at the table.
Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 3 in x 4.25 in
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1925
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5270
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial Photographs – During 1925, Watson Davis (1896-1967), Science Service managing editor, took numerous photographs while covering the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial as a reporter. In what was dubbed "The Trial of the Century," Scopes was tried and convicted for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. William Jennings Bryan served on the prosecution team, and Clarence Darrow defended Scopes. Almost eighty years later, the nitrate negatives, including portraits of trial participants, and images from the trial itself and significant places in Dayton, were discovered in archival material donated to the Smithsonian by Science Service in 1971. Marcel C. LaFollette, an independent scholar, historian and Smithsonian volunteer uncovered these rare, previously unpublished photographs of the 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA). In 2005, SIA restored fifty-two of the negatives with funds granted by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. Included here are thirty-nine of the images. All images belong to the Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965 collection of SIA. All photographs were taken by Watson Davis, Managing Editor of Science Service, while he was in Dayton, Tennessee, June 4-5, 1925, and July 10-22, 1925. LaFollette identified and dated each of these images, and has published a new book highlighting these and other images from the trial entitled, Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century, University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Accession number: SIA2007-0125
Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and gradi…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260116. Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement, region of North Carolina. September 1939.. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer. September 1939
Notes: Original negative #: 52055-D
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / North Carolina. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260116
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Aug/105
Cool Culture images
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Unidentified Woman
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: One of Noguchi’s father photographed by Chas. W. Hearn, 1903 and one photograph of an unidentified woman (misidentified at the time of accessioning as Noguchi’s mother), photographed by Walter Studio, N.Y., ca. 1900.
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-
Co-Creator: Hearn, Charles W.
Walter Studio (New York, N.Y.)
(Image 1 of 2)
Creator/Photographer: Walter Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: Asian-American
Date: c. 1900
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5536
Repository: Archives of American Art
Accession number: aaa_miscphot_11152
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, beginning his career at the institution in the 1870s. In 1913 he mounted an exhibition on the history of photography in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, showcasing many of the remarkable advancements made in the field that he feared had already been forgotten or disregarded.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum’s installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Date: 1913
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2152&q=RU95_Box76_098
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) – Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Accession number: RU95_Box76_098
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Aug/100
Sweet Culture photos
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Type of German prisoner captured in the new push
Image by National Library of Scotland
German prisoner, during World War I. He is wearing a cloth or wool cap and a tunic style jacket. His spectacles, held on by ‘ear-bands’, reflect the scene in front of him. The closeness of the subject forces one to look at his face and into his eyes.
This image is more documentary than most of the official propaganda photographs and seems to provide us with a more honest account of war and the people involved. Despite the biased caption, this very real and striking portrait refuses to demonise the enemy.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE WESTERN FRONT. Type of German prisoners captured in the new push.']
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