W. Stanley Hanson photographs relating to Seminole people in Florida
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 62
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints and copy negatives made by Smithsonian Institution, 1957.
label: Local Notes
content: Last name previously misspelled as "Hansen." Spelling corrected September 16, 2009.
name: label: Creator
content: Hanson, W. Stanley
label: Names
content: Mitchell, Robert D. (collector and possible photographer)
topic: label: Topic
content: Laundry
label: Topic
content: Cooking
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
label: Topic
content: Dwellings
label: Topic
content: Canoes and canoeing
creator: label: Creator
content: Hanson, W. Stanley
culture: label: Culture
content: Miccosukee Seminole (Mikasuki)
label: Culture
content: Seminole
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: W. Stanley Hanson (1883-1945) was a resident of Ft. Myers, Florida, where his father William Hanson was a physician to the Mikasuki community. W. Stanley Hanson built on his family's close connections with the tribe, becoming a trusted advisor and recording the lives of Mikasuki in photographs and writing.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 285 Copy negatives (circa)
label: Extent
content: 291 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: possibly 1914, 1930-1931
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: After Hanson's death his supporter Robert D. Mitchell acquired the photographs and possibly added some of his own to the collection. In 1947-1948, Mitchell loaned the collection to the Bureau of American Ethnology for copying.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.62
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals were returned to Robert D. Mitchell.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists of photographs, most made by W. Stanley Hanson, which document Seminole and Mikasuki people, villages, and camps. Some photographs depict dugout canoes, wagons and cattle, construction of a chickee, Osceola's gravesite, and daily activities.  There are also some images of Dr. W. Stanley Hanson.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of and writings about artifacts collected by Hanson are held in the Hanson Family Archives of the Seminole Lodge of the Woody Hanson family of Fort Myers, Florida.