Romyn Hitchcock photographs of Ainu people, Japan, and Korea
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 77-38
name: label: Creator
content: Hitchcock, Romyn, 1851-1923
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Korea
topic: label: Topic
content: Mounds -- Japan
label: Topic
content: Painting, Japanese
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content: Boats and boating
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content: Villages
creator: label: Creator
content: Hitchcock, Romyn, 1851-1923
culture: label: Culture
content: Koreans
label: Culture
content: Japanese
label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Romyn Hitchcock photographs of Ainu people, Japan, and Korea
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Romyn Hitchcock (1851-1923), was a Smithsonian curator, scientist and author with degrees in chemistry from Cornell University and Columbia University. He spent four years curating for the Smithsonian's National Museum.  In 1887, Hitchcock was put in charge of photographic work for the United States Eclipse Expedition to Japan and appointed professor of English at the Koto Chu Gakko, the Japanese government school in Osaka.  His studies in Japan led to a number of articles in the Smithsonian Annual Reports in 1890 and 1891.  In the early 1890s, he became a commissioner to China for the World Columbian Exposition and later served as an official of the exposition.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 200 Prints (circa 200 prints: albumen, cyanotype, silver gelatin, halftone)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1885-1895
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Part of this collection was donated by Robert Elder, 1977. The rest was likely donated as part of the publication of Hitchcock's articles in the USNM Annual Report. Three photographs of Ainu people were originally in the Division of Physical Anthropology photograph collection.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.77-38
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Prints
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content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Cyanotypes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in "Ancient Pit-Dwellers of Yezo," USNM Annual Report, 1890, p. 417-427; "Ainos of Yezo," USNM Annual report, 1890, p. 429-502; "Shinto, or Mythology of the Japanese," USNM Annual Report, 1891, 489-509; "The Ancient Burial Mounds in Japan," USNM Annual Report, 1891, 511-523; and "Some Ancient Relics in Japan," USNM Annual Report, 1891, 525-526.
label: Bibliography
content: Some photographs also published in William W. Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Debreuil, Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People, [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Association with University of Washington Press, 1999.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Cyanotypes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting Ainu people and villages and Japanese boats, paintings, artifacts, structures, burial mound, tombs, and scenery. They also include some images of people and a village in Korea. Many of the mounted prints have been annotated for publication, some for the 1890 Annual Report of the National Museum.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: R.M. Bartleman photographs of Venezuela, previously filed in 77-38, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 156.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs in the Hitchcock Collection, previously filed in Photo Lot 97 and Photo Lot 8, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 77-38. These photographs were also made by Romyn Hitchcock and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Hitchcock donated artifacts from Japan, China, and Sri Lanka to the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, in accessions 022393, 022392, 055059, 021640, 021675, 022518, 021963, 022633, 025499, 014786, 021689, and 023462.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library holds Romyn Hitchcock's papers.
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content: Romyn Hitchcock photographs of Ainu people, Japan, and Korea, circa 1885-1895