Pond Bureau photograph collection relating to Oceania
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 82-12
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints made by Smithsonian Institution, circa 1985.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy negatives probably made by Pacific Prints, a dealer in Waliuku, Hawaii, circa 1981.
name: label: Collector
content: Pond Bureau
label: Names
content: Baumann, Cyril von
label: Photographer
content: Johnson, Irving
label: Names
content: Salisbury, Edward A.
label: Names
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
place: label: Place
content: New Guinea
label: Place
content: Micronesia
label: Place
content: Oceania
creator: label: Collector
content: Pond Bureau
culture: label: Culture
content: Kumas (New Guinean people)
label: Culture
content: Mbowamb (New Guinean people)
label: Culture
content: Micronesians
label: Culture
content: Gururumba (New Guinean people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Pond Bureau was a lecture bureau in New York City which probably collected these photographs from its lecturers. Irving Johnson was a Massachusetts-based professional sailor, author, lecturer, and adventurer who mostly traveled around the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and the Cape of Good Hope. Matthew Williams Stirling was a Smithsonian ethnologist and archeologist who spent the early part of his career conducting research in New Guinea and Ecuador. Edward A. Salisbury was a wealthy filmmaker who sailed around the South Pacific for documentary footage in the 1920s. And Cyril von Baumann was an explorer, naturalist, and archeologist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 37 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1950
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Prints Pacific in Waliuku, Hawaii, through Susan Halas, 1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.82-12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Matthew Williams Stirling, "The Native Peoples of New Guinea," Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies vol. 9, 1943; Edward A. Salisbury and Merian C. Cooper, The Sea Gypsy, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924; Irving Johnson and Electa Johnson, Sailing to See: Picture Cruise in the Schooner Yankee, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1939; Irving Johnson, Yankee's People and Places, New York: Norton, 1955.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Original prints for copy negatives probably in National Library of New Guinea.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs mostly made on Matthew Williams Stirlingʹs New Guinea expedition, Edward A. Salisburyʹs expedition to Micronesia, as well as trips made by Irving Johnson, Ray Jewell, and Cyril von Baumann. They include images of expedition members, scenic views, and indigenous peoples of New Guinea, Micronesia, and other Oceanic islands.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Stirling can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and the Matthew Williams Stirling papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea holds the Irving and Electa Johnson Collection.