Oct/103
Cool Culture images
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Steamboat “Kate Adams”
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: "Kate Adams," a U.S. Mail steamboat, moves on the Mississippi River. The "Kate Adams" was built in 1882.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1882
Collection: U.S. Mail Packets and Boats
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=1971&q=A.2006-90
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-90
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Oct/100
Sweet Culture photos
A few nice culture images I found:
Two women, a child and a dog on the shore, filling a basket with clams, probably Washington State
Image by UW Digital Collections
Two women, a child and a dog on the shore, filling a basket with clams, probably Washington State, ca. 1929-1932
Photographer:
Gorst, Vern C.
Subjects (LCTGM):
Women
Children
Bathing suits
Dogs
Clams
Clamming
Digital Collection:
Society and Culture Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/socialweb/index.html
Item Number: SOC1471
Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/social,1472
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Urdd National Eisteddfod, Carmarthen 1967
Image by LlGC ~ NLW
Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd, Caerfyrddin 1967
Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002)
Dyddiad/Date: June 8, 1967
Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negative
Cyfeiriad/Reference: (gch15817)
Rhif cofnod / Record no.: 3370932
Rhagor o wybodaeth am gasgliad Geoff Charles yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
More information about the Geoff Charles Collection at the National Library of Wales
Mae Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd yn un o ŵyliau celfyddydol ieuenctid mwyaf Ewrop, ac eleni, fe’i chynhelir ar ystâd yr Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol sef Llanerchaeron, ger Aberaeron (31 Mai – 5 Mehefin, 2010)
The Urdd National Eisteddfod is one of Europe’s largest cultural festivals. It is a celebration of the Welsh language and culture and showcases young, Welsh talent. The Eisteddfod will be held this year on the National Trust’s Llanerchaeron estate, near Aberaeron (31 May – 5 June, 2010)
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution’s physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian’s records.
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
Geography: USA
Date: 1890
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2064&q=RU95_Box76_031
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_031
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Oct/100
Amazing Culture images
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2007 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: Ken Rahaim
Medium: Digital photograph
Culture: American Indian
Geography: USA
Date: 2007
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3490&q=07natl-powwow_0158
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian
Accession number: 07natl-powwow_0158
Migratory agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of th…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260124. Migratory agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of the Norfolk-Cape Charles Ferry. They are going to Bridgeville, Delaware to pick apples. July 1940.. Delano, Jack — Photographer. July 1940
Notes: Original negative #: 20552-M5; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-D16
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Delaware. / 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?1260124
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Oct/100
Nice Culture photos
A few nice culture images I found:
2007 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: Ken Rahaim
Medium: Digital photograph
Culture: American Indian
Geography: USA
Date: 2007
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3484&q=07natl-powwow_0052
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian
Accession number: 07natl-powwow_0052
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: N21654
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: View (from left) of concrete replicas of Blackfeet, Sioux, and Arapaho tipis on the Research Branch grounds, Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, with dwellings and apartment building 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: Sioux,Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet),Inunaina (Arapaho)
Culture Hierarchy: Northern Plains>Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=346004
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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Oct/100
Amazing Culture photos
Some cool culture images:
Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farms…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260048. Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA; Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, August 1940.. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer. Date depicted: August 1940
Notes: LOC negative # : 54426-D.
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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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260048
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
Digging out a cemetery to be moved from the Santee-Cooper ba…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 1260131. Digging out a cemetery to be moved from the Santee-Cooper basin, Near Bonneau, South Carolina.. Delano, Jack — Photographer. Date depicted: March 1941
Notes: LOC negative # : 43513-D.
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / South Carolina. / 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?1260131
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
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Oct/102
Sweet Culture photos
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Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution’s physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian’s records.
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=2093&q=RU95_Box76_060
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_060
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution’s physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian’s records.
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=2095&q=RU95_Box76_062
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_062
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: A presentation on adornment in Omani women’s culture takes place at the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall.
Creator/Photographer: Stephanie Smith
Medium: Digital photograph
Geography: USA
Date: 2005
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3453&q=SFF2005_SS_6-27-0001
Repository: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage/Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Accession number: SFF2005_SS_6-27-0001
Oct/101
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Negative
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Photographer: Unknown, Non-Indian
Subject: Huntington Free Library and Reading Room
Date Created: 1920-1929
Catalog Number: N39216
Format: Acetate negative
Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.
Collection History: The Huntington Free Library and Reading Room was founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington, father of MAI trustee Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955); in 1930, Archer Huntington built an addition to the Library to hold the MAI’s book and archive collections; this photo predates that addition.
Description: View of the Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, Bronx, New York, designed 1882-1883 by Frederick C. Withers
Place: Huntington Free Library and Reading Room; New York City, Bronx, Westchester; Bronx County; New York; USA
Site Name: Huntington Free Library and Reading Room
Culture/People: Non-Indian
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=327997
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution’s physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian’s records.
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=3811&q=RU95_Box76_071
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_071
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution’s scientists, including documentation of Smithsonian-sponsored expeditions as well as images of scientific phenomena.
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=2079&q=RU95_Box76_046
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_046
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Oct/100
Amazing Culture images
Some cool culture images:
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: Cynthia Frankenburg
Medium: Digital photograph
Culture: American Indian
Geography: USA
Date: 2005
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3661&q=081405CFPWb044
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian
Accession number: 081405CFPWb044
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: 1890
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.
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2128&q=RU95_Box79_0012
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession number: RU95_Box79_0012
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Oct/101
Sweet Culture photos
A few nice culture images I found:
Untitled
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution’s physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian’s records.
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
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.
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2118&q=RU95_Box79_0002
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession number: RU95_Box79_0002
Urdd National Eisteddfod, Dolgellau 1960
Image by LlGC ~ NLW
Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd, Dolgellau 1960
Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002)
Dyddiad/Date: June 16, 1960
Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negative
Cyfeiriad/Reference: (gch15096)
Rhif cofnod / Record no.: 3370896
Rhagor o wybodaeth am gasgliad Geoff Charles yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
More information about the Geoff Charles Collection at the National Library of Wales
Mae Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd yn un o ŵyliau celfyddydol ieuenctid mwyaf Ewrop, ac eleni, fe’i chynhelir ar ystâd yr Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol sef Llanerchaeron, ger Aberaeron (31 Mai – 5 Mehefin, 2010)
The Urdd National Eisteddfod is one of Europe’s largest cultural festivals. It is a celebration of the Welsh language and culture and showcases young, Welsh talent. The Eisteddfod will be held this year on the National Trust’s Llanerchaeron estate, near Aberaeron (31 May – 5 June, 2010)
Skiers at Mount Rainier National Park
Image by UW Digital Collections
Skiers at Mount Rainier National Park, n.d.
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCTGM):
Skiers–Washington (State)–Mount Rainier National Park
Digital Collection:
Society and Culture Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/socialweb/index.html
Item Number: SOC0490
Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/social,497
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Oct/101
2005 Powwow
A few nice culture images I found:
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: Cynthia Frankenburg
Medium: Digital photograph
Culture: American Indian
Geography: USA
Date: 2005
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=3664&q=081405CFPWb071
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian
Accession number: 081405CFPWb071
Morris Ginsberg and LSE Students at Grove Lodge, Cambridge, June 1940
Image by LSE Library
Photo given to LSE by Ginsberg’s former neighbour Evelyn Osterweil
Morris Ginsberg: An Obituary (LSE Magazine, December 1970, No 40) – by Donald G. MacRae
“The death of Morris Ginsberg at the age of 81 does much more than sever a link with LSE going back in one form or another to 1911. Although physically frail in his latter years his mind was as powerful, as clear, as interested and as sceptical as ever down until the time of his death, an he was busily engaged in the planning of a new volume of essays. For long he has been the greatest British sociologist. During many years he had carried the burden of sociology in this country almost alone. What the subject has of rigour, order, clarity, scholarship, creative doubt and humane concern in 1970 is the legacy, above all of Ginsberg.
He was born in 1899 in one of the smaller communities of the Russian Empire. Coming to England as a lad he was fired by a faith in this country largely through reading a Hebrew translation of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda – he always insisted that George Eliot read better in Hebrew, a thought that might have pleased that author. He performed brilliantly in philosophy at University College London, and became an authority on Melebranche – he published a translation of the Entretiens of 1688 in 1923. British critical realism attracted him and dominated the philosophical concerns that continued through his life. By 1911 he was drawn to LSE by Hobhouse and the new liberal sociology of Westermarck. The Manchester Guardian circle of these years deeply influenced his political outlook. In 1915 along with Hobhouse and Wheeler he published what is still a classic of comparative and statistical sociology. The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples. (Those who think of him as an essentially non-quantitative sociology should also remember his remarkable pioneering work of the 1920’s on social mobility.)
After war service – he was a sergeant engaged on the dangerous business of bringing ammunition-laden mule-teams up to the line on the Western Front – he returned to academic life in London, moving from University College (the Fellowship of which was one of his most prized honours) fully to LSE where in due course and one would think inevitably became the Martin White Professor of Sociology in succession to Hobhouse in 1929. He held this chair until 1954, but taught actively at the school even after retirement.
During these years he did important work in social psychology and in 1934 published his Sociology which in its brief compass, its learning in the European tradition of the subject, its succinct force, remains a classic. The crises of the 30’s actively involved him in the tasks of rescue and re-settlement of refugee scholars. When the School was evacuated to Cambridge during the second German war he carried with a success that was to leave him exhausted in 1945 an almost incredible range and burden of teaching. Yet on return to London he re-established and extended the LSE Department on the shoulders of which then rested the total responsibility for the development of sociology in Britain.
In all this the support and happiness of his marriage to Ethel Street made his tasks possible. Her long and tragic illness and death was to cloud his old age. His capacity for friendship, for kindness and concern was great and discriminating. He was shy and reserved, even bleak in manner, yet he was at heart warm and eminently practical. He did not fuss, so people under-estimated his human, scholarly and administrative achievements. With difficulty I persuaded him to publish the three volumes of his Essays in Sociology and Social Philosophy (1956-61). Their success delighted him. Their importance is not exhausted: spare in style, always clear, to many people they have seemed essentially critical and exegetical. But this is not the case. Too scrupulous in his debt to Hobhouse and Westermarck he concealed his own originality and wealth of analysis. He made much dangerous nonsense henceforth impossible. He greatly advanced a comparative and institutional sociology at once creative and highly disciplined. His concern with the quality of social life and his sense of rigour made him in my judgement almost the only social philosopher of our age.
The influence of his teaching, he was an almost perfect if austere lecturer, has been international. His rationalism, his short term pessimism and longer term hope annoyed the passionate and impatient. Yet they gained from his wise stoicism and deep concern. His humour was private and not always kind, but it was without malice. (How, he reflected, could Malinowski have found more to say about the Trobriands than Gibbon on the fall of Rome?) His loyalty to those he loved never faltered. There is so much that one has no room to say here about him: suffice it to establish that he was one of those who made his subject out of stubborn fact and complexity, made the LSE both unique and great among institutions of higher learning, and who helped his friends and students to endure.”
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Argentine Grapes
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Image Title: Argentine Grapes
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The development of the wine trade is in keeping with the phenomenal progress of the rest of the country. Although the great bulk of the product is not of the highest quality, the presses turn out each year enormous quantities that beat the labels of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Moselle, and Muscate, produced from the very best imported vines. Other fruits have been found to grow equally well in this section: peaches, pears, and plums reach a high state of culture, whiles apples, quinces, and cherries do very well. It is the boast of the Argentine that his country is capable of producing every conceivable kind of fruit, and it is not an idle boast."
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