Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
name: label: Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
place: label: Place
content: French Polynesia
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content: Africa, Central
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content: Europe
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content: South Africa
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content: East Asia
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content: North America
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content: South America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Thayer Soule in 1991.
creator: label: Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; color silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1991.20
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Travelogues (motion pictures)
label: Type
content: Silent films
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: On the road with travelogues, 1935-1995: a sixty-year romp
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Travelogues (Motion pictures)
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content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film collection contains 34 travel films from around the world made by Thayer Soule, some of which were made with associates, that he used in presenting travel lectures around the country from 1935 to 1995. He was an associate with Burton Holmes, dean of travel lecturers, from 1946 to 1958. 

Collection also includes still photographs, publicity materials and scripts and audio tape recordings of the accompanying lectures for some of the films.


Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.