Darien Expedition Photographs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4801
label: Local Note
content: Filed: Original Prints, Oversize.
name: label: Photographer
content: O' Sullivan, Timothy H.
label: Photographer
content: Moran, John
label: Photographer
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
label: Names
content: Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1862-1872) (Hayden Survey)
label: Names
content: United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)
label: Names
content: United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1871 and 1873)
place: label: Place
content: Great Britain -- Salisbury -- Blackmore Museum
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Colombia
label: Topic
content: Panama
creator: label: Photographer
content: O' Sullivan, Timothy H.
label: Photographer
content: Moran, John
label: Photographer
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Panama and Colombia views were photographed on the "Darien Expedition, Comd'r. Selfridge Comd'g." See "Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by way of the Isthmus of Darien," by Thomas Oliver Selfridge, 42nd Cong. 3rd Sess. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. No. 113, Washington, D. C., 1874. Three expeditions: 1870 (T. H. O'Sullivan, photographer); 1871 (John Moran, photographer); 1873 (photographer not recorded). Numbers (9), (13), (17) and (18) are reproduced as lithographs in Selfridge, 1874, opposite pages 6, 40, 76 and 54.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Mrs S. Hazen Bond (Alma B.), 4545 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20008, along with glass plates (catalogued under negative Numbers 4760-4811); picked up by M. C. Blaker, September, 1967 (correspondence in Archives office files).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4801
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: A number of Colombia and Panama photographs are reproduced in James D. Horan, Timothy O'Sullivan: America's Forgotten Photographer, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1966 with captions, dates and photographer credit.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains: Photos relating to the Darien Expedition [1870, 1871, 1873] (28 prints); by W, H. Jackson on the Hayden Survey [1870's] (5 prints); and by others (6 prints).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Catalog Number 4801: (1)-(28) [South America] Description and photographer: Ethnographic views (houses, people, artifacts) and scenery of Panama and/or Colombia, including the following localities: Cartagena, Colombia; Chipigania, Cupica Bay; Inquisition; Limon River and Limon Bay; Pinogana; Santa Maria del Real, Darien; Turbo, Colombia. See copy negatives of two other subjects from this series: South America 45,889-J, -K.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Catalog Number 4801: Historical: By William H. Jackson, Hayden Survey, date not recorded [1870's]. "Views in the Rocky Mountains" (29) "Fremont's Peak (3o) "Teton Range and Jackson's Lake" (31) "Wind River Peak." "Scenery of the Yellowstone National Park:" (32) "Great Falls of the Yellostone" (33) "Falls on Left Fork of Gardiner's River" None of these photographs were reproduced in either Clarence S. Jackson, Picture Maker of the Old West: Wm. H. Jackson, New York, 1947; or Wm. H. Jackson, Time Exposure: The Autobiography of Wm. H. Jackson, New York, 1940. Historical: (34)-(36) Views of unidentified shoreline with sailing vessels. No date. (1 duplication.) (37)-(38) History of Anthropology Anthropological exhibits at the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1868. Copy Negatives 56,327-56,328. (39) A young boy, possibly Indian. Bust. By H. Ulke, Washington, D. C.