Alexander Schadenberg photographs of the Philippines
name: label: Creator
content: Schadenberg, Alexander
place: label: Place
content: Philippines -- Ethnology
label: Place
content: Philippines -- Fishing
label: Place
content: Pasig River (Luzon, Philippines)
label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Philippines
label: Topic
content: Church Interiors
label: Topic
content: Church buildings
label: Topic
content: Habitations and other structures -- Philippines
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was given to the Smithsonian Institution in 1903 by Dr. A.B. Meyer, Director of the Dresden Museum (Original accession no. USNM 41586).  In his letter offering the smaller set of negatives to the Smithsonian, Meyer's writes,"The Dresden Museum recently received a present from the widow of Dr. Schadenberg who lived for years in the Philippines, and with whom together I published, as you will be aware, several works on these islands, some hundreds of negatives, the result of the photographic work of her late husband. Among these are about 150 which are of no value, whatever, for this Museum."
creator: label: Creator
content: Schadenberg, Alexander
culture: label: Culture
content: Filipinos
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content: Alexander Schadenberg photographs of the Philippines
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Alexander Schadenberg (1851-1896) was a chemist and ethnographer, and a natural history enthusiast.  Born in Breslau, Germany, he studied chemistry and botany.  After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as the assistant director of the Potassic Salt Works in Stassfurt. In 1876, he went to worked as a chemist for the drug company Pablo Sartorius in Manila and in 1879, illness forced him to move back to Breslau.  

From 1881 to 1883, Schadenberg and his friend Otto Koch visited southern Mindanao to carry out ethnographic and linguistic studies, basing themselves in the Bagobo village of Sibulan. There, they also made ethnographic and natural history collections. Upon their return to Germany Schadenberg spent several years working on his collections, publishing, lecturing and corresponding with museums and anthropological societies throughout Europe.  

Schadenberg later returned to the Philippines and became a partner of Pablo Sartorius.  He settled with his family in Vigan in 1885 and continued his excursions among the native people of the islands.  After Schadenberg's death in 1896, his collections passed to several museums in Dresden, Vienna, Berlin, and Leyden.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 145 Glass negatives
label: Extent
content: 2 Folders (Manuscript envelope)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1881-1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.152
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Glass negatives
label: Type
content: Glass plate negatives
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 78.

The negatives have been housed in archival enclosures and the original enclosures discarded, however notes written on the enclosures have been retained. 

The collection was processed by Eden Orelove and Gina Rappaport.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Glass plate negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of the Philippines, including images of Spanish and Philippine people, military personnel, houses and government buildings, churches, villages and towns, rivers and landscapes, and material culture.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Dresden Museum  holds the bulk of the photographs donated by Schadenberg's wife.  The National Library of Australia holds some of Schadenberg's photographs in the Otley Beyer collection of photographs.