Leonora Jackson McKim photograph collection of scenery and people in Norway, Israel and Palestine, Italy, and Canada
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 159, USNM ACC 161740
name: label: Collector
content: McKim, Leonora Jackson, 1880-1969
label: Names
content: Boorne & May
label: Names
content: Pillsbury Picture Co.
label: Photographer
content: Lindahl, Axel, 1841-1906
label: Photographer
content: Valentine, James, 1815-1879
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Lapps
place: label: Place
content: Norway
label: Place
content: Lapland
label: Place
content: Jerusalem
label: Place
content: Agrigento (Italy)
label: Place
content: Israel
label: Place
content: Palestine
label: Place
content: Canada
creator: label: Collector
content: McKim, Leonora Jackson, 1880-1969
culture: label: Culture
content: Sami (European people)
label: Culture
content: Romans
label: Culture
content: Jews
label: Culture
content: Palestinian Arabs
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content: Leonora Jackson McKim photograph collection of scenery and people in Norway, Israel and Palestine, Italy, and Canada
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Leonora Jackson (1880-1969) was a female concert violinist who performed at venues around the world. Mrs. Grover Cleveland and George Vanderbilt sponsored her violin training in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin until Jackson made her  debut in 1896.  She was awarded the Mendelssohn State Prize by the Prussian government in 1898.  In 1915 she married Dr. William Duncan McKim (1855-1935), a member of a wealthy Baltimore merchant family. Jackson and McKim traveled extensively and amassed a large art collection, large portions of which she donated to the Smithsonian and the Maryland Historical Society.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 24 Prints (albumen)
label: Extent
content: 5 Prints (probably chromolithograph)
label: Extent
content: 4 Prints (collotype)
label: Extent
content: 2 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Leonora Jackson McKim to the United States National Museum in 1941 (accession 161740).Four photographs were found in the files in the office of Gus Van Beek, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian, and transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1979.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.159
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting people and historically or geologically significant sites. Most of the collection consists of images of Norway, particularly the Sami people, towns, and reindeer. It also includes oversized postcards depicting temple remains in Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy, color images of Biblical locations in Jerusalem and Palestine, and images of "The Beehive" and Bow River in Canada. Most of the images are not dated, though some of the photographs of Norway were made circa 1892.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 79-38.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs donated by McKim, which were previously filed in Photo Lot 37 and Photo Lot 97, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 159. These photographs were also donated by McKim in accession 161740 and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional material donated by McKim can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 161740, 164201, and 210599.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Library of Congress Music Division holds the Leonora Jackson and William Duncan McKim Collection.
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content: Leonora Jackson McKim photograph collection of scenery and people in Norway, Israel and Palestine, Italy, and Canada, undated