Museum of Mankind copies of William Blackmore photograph albums of American Indians
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R80-54, NAA Photo Lot 80-41
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints and photocopies made by the British Museum, circa 1976-1980.
name: label: Collector
content: Museum of Mankind
label: Collector
content: Blackmore, William, 1827-1878
creator: label: Collector
content: Museum of Mankind
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: William Henry Blackmore (1827-1878) was an English financier and philanthropist. He founded the Blackmore Museum in Salisbury, England, to house the Squier and Davis collection of archaeological material and commissioned and collected photographs of American Indians for display in the museum. To make these images available to the Smithsonian Institution, Blackmore hired photographer Antonio Zeno Schindler to copy many of the photographs in his collection before they were shipped to England. Many of Schindler's copy glass negatives are now held in the National Anthropological Archives and some are the only surviving versions of these images. The Blackmore Museum continued after its founder's death until 1902, when it was consolidated with the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. The collection was ultimately dispersed in the 1930s to various institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution and the British Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 159 Copy prints
label: Extent
content: 800 Photocopies (circa)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1850s-1870s
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photocopies and copy prints obtained from J. C. H. King of the Ethnography Department, British Museum, circa 1977-1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R80-54
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photocopies
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photocopies
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs and correpospondence relating to a 1970s project that correlated William Blackmore photograph collections in the National Anthropological Archives and the Museum of Mankind (Ethnography Department, British Museum). The collection includes photocopies of photographs of American Indians (mostly portraits) collected by William Blackmore and currently held in the British Museum, as well as copy prints of select photographs.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photocopies in Photo Lot 80-41 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 80-54. These copies were also part of the project to exchange images and data about the Blackmore Collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Glass negatives relating to William Henry Blackmore, including copies of photographs collected by Blackmore, held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 31 and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected by Blackmore held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 1846, 2371, and 1826.