COLLECTION AND RESEARCH PHOTOGRAPHS
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1946-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1980-22, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The images in this series document cultural object collections, people, culture, and geographical locations. The initial basis for the description to this series comes from the finding aid written by Barbara Coons in April 1980. Additional information about the collections have been found since that date and additional images have been transferred to the Knez papers after 1980. As a result, the series description and notes to specific collections have been revised. Most of the photographic materials which comprise this series were collected from various sources by Knez and relate to his work as Curator of Asian Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History (previously the United States National Museum), Smithsonian Institution. A good segment of the photographic materials in this series document the arts, crafts, buildings, and people of the Pakistani states of Sind and Baluchistan. Because most of the photographs were labeled "West Pakistan," it can be assumed that they were taken prior to December, 1971, when war separated Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) from Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan). The remainder of the series includes photographs of Thailand, Tibet, pictures of the opening of a 1973 Smithsonian exhibition on Bhutan, objects in a Korean Art exhibition, a Chinese temple, Japanese folk art, Korean art, culture, and archeology, and India. Photographs documenting Knez's family dating back to the 1930s, field trips in the Southwest around the late 1930s, his army activities during World War II, photographs taken in Korea from around the 1920s to the 1940s and during the Korean War will be found under series thirteen, biographical and autobiographical material. Photographs may also be found in the series subject file, exhibitions, and research projects. Some of the photographic content overlap between all of these series. There are also some photographs in the geographical and publication series. This series consists of black and white prints (many with negatives), color prints and negatives, color slides, glass plates, postcards, and photo cards.