John Bell Hatcher photographs relating to Patagonia
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content: NAA Photo Lot 124
name: label: Creator
content: Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904
place: label: Place
content: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Creator
content: Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904
culture: label: Culture
content: Tehuelche
label: Culture
content: Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
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content: John Bell Hatcher photographs relating to Patagonia
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: John Bell Hatcher (1861-1904) was a paleontologist known for his work at Yale and Princeton Universities and the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.  Hatcher was born in Cooperstown, Illinois, but shortly thereafter his family permanently settled in Iowa.  After studying for a few months at Grinnell College, Iowa, he transferred to Yale University, where he met paleontologist Othniel Marsh.  Following Hatcher's graduation in 1884, he worked as Marsh's assistant, and in 1893 left Yale to became curator of vertebrate paleontology at Princeton University.  During his time with Princeton, Hatcher made three expeditions to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (1896-1899) under the university's sponsorship.  During these expedtitions, he also worked under commission by the Bureau of American Ethnology to collect material culture and make photographs of the Tehuelche and Yahgan communities, most of which were then purchased by the National Museum. Hatcher was appointed curator of peolontology and osteology at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh in 1900, though his narrative of the Patagonia expeditions was published by Princeton in 1903.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Prints (silver gelatin and albumen; mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1899
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Probably donated to the Bureau of American Ethnology or the United States National Museum by John Bell Hatcher.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.124
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made in Patagonia by John Bell Hatcher during his expeditions to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. They document Tehuelche and Yahgan peoples, dwellings, and the natural environment.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Hatcher photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24 and Photo Lot 97
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence to and from Hatcher is held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4029 and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology and in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA RU000248.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected by Hatcher are held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 035249 and 035895.
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content: John Bell Hatcher photographs relating to Patagonia, circa 1896-1899