Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 98, USNM ACC 90351
name: label: Creator
content: Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925 (collector and possible photographer)
place: label: Place
content: Germany -- description and travel
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content: France -- description and travel
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content: United States -- description and travel
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content: Malaysia -- Description and Travel
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content: Italy -- description and travel
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content: Philippines -- Description and Travel
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content: Puerto Rico -- description and travel
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content: Sri Lanka -- Description and Travel
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content: England -- description and travel
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content: China -- Description and Travel
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content: Egypt -- description and travel
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content: Japan -- Description and Travel
creator: label: Creator
content: Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925 (collector and possible photographer)
culture: label: Culture
content: Italians
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content: Filipinos
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content: Japanese
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content: French
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content: Hawaiians
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content: Germans
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content: English
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content: Egyptians
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content: Chinese
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content: Sri Lankans
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content: Puerto Ricans
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content: Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853-1925), born Alice Chenoweth in Virginia in 1853, was an author, feminist, and public official.  Educated at the Cincinnati (Ohio) Normal School (graduated 1873), Chenoweth moved with her first husband, Charles S. Smart, to New York City in 1880.  There, Chenoweth studied biology at Columbia University, lectured on sociology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and came into contact with the theories of freethinker Robert G. Ingersoll.  Chenoweth published her own lectures on freethinking in "Men, Women, and Gods," and Other Lectures (1885), at which point she adopted the name Helen Hamilton Gardener.  Gardener's feminism came to fruition in 1888, when she refuted the claim that the female brain was inferior to men's in her article "Sex in Brain," joining the struggle for equal rights for women.  In 1902, Gardener married her second husband, Lieutenant Colonel Selden Allen Day, a Civil War veteran who organized the first battalion of the Puerto Rican regiment under US control.  The couple embarked on a five-year worldwide tour in July 1902, finally settling in Washington, DC.  Gardener served as the National American Women Suffrage Association's vice president (1917) and its chief liaison to the Wilson Administration during the passage of the nineteenth amendment.  President Wilson then appointed her to the US Civil Service Commission, the highest federal position held by a woman at the time.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 300 Negatives (circa, nitrate)
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content: 1,160 Lantern slides (circa)
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content: 14 Prints (silver gelatin)
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content: 15 Copy negatives (glass)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated to the United States National Museum by Helen Hamilton Gardener's niece Helen Gardener Crane in 1926 (accession 90351).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Negatives
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content: Lantern slides
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content: Prints
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content: Copy negatives
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content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
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content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Caption list for lantern slides is available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected and made by Helen Hamilton Gardener, probably during a world cruise following her husband's retirement from active duty in Puerto Rico in July 1902.  The photographs document people, activities, cities, and tourist sites in Japan, China, Egypt, France, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere.  Gardener's lecture notes and a clipping from the Porto Rico Review, 1910, are available with the collection.  Lantern slides in the collection were probably used in Gardener's later lectures in the United States.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs collected by Gardener are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected by Gardener are held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 90351 and 89779.
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content: Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection, circa 1900-1910