William E. Hughes photographs, scrapbook, and motion picture film
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 75-18
name: label: Creator
content: Hughes, William E.
label: Names
content: Peary Greenland Expedition, 1891
place: label: Place
content: Washington (D.C.)
label: Place
content: Philadelphia (Pa.)
label: Place
content: Mexico
label: Place
content: Saint Kitts
label: Place
content: Barbados
label: Place
content: Dominica
label: Place
content: Saint Lucia
label: Place
content: France
label: Place
content: Greece
label: Place
content: Grenada
label: Place
content: Trinidad and Tobago
label: Place
content: Cuba
label: Place
content: Costa Rica
label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Brazil
label: Place
content: Montserrat
label: Place
content: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
label: Place
content: Martinique
label: Place
content: Turkey
label: Place
content: Venezuela
label: Place
content: Yugoslavia
label: Place
content: Virgin Islands
label: Place
content: Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: Maine
label: Place
content: New York (State)
label: Place
content: Hawaii
label: Place
content: New Brunswick
creator: label: Creator
content: Hughes, William E.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: William E. Hughes (1857-1944) was a Philadelphia physician who accompanied Robert E. Peary on the first part of his expedition to Greenland in 1891. He received both his MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1880.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Reels (16 mm)
label: Extent
content: 15 Negatives (glass)
label: Extent
content: 2,800 Lantern slides (circa)
label: Extent
content: 1 Scrapbook
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1891-1931
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The collection was transferred from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, 1975.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.75-18
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Motion pictures (visual works)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Motion pictures (visual works)
label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made or collected by William E. Hughes during his travels in the United States, Greenland, Japan, Grenada, Trinidad, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Cuba, Venezuela, France, Brazil, Costa Rica, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey. They document the landscapes, churches, public buildings, parks, statues, artisans, markets, and city streets of these locations. Films and some photographs depict Hughes's family and trips to the Grand Canyon; Hawaii; Maine; New York; New Brunswick in Canada; and Washington, D. C. A scrapbook in the collection contains newspaper clippings relating to the 1891 Peary expedition to Greenland and a few letters accompany the photographs.

Lantern slides of Japan appear to be commercially made and hand-tinted, and slides relating to the Peary Expedition may have been made by Dr. Benjamin Sharpe, another scientist on the expedition.