Adolphe Braun photographs of art in European museums
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 79-34, USNM ACC 57117
name: label: Creator
content: Braun, Adolphe, 1811-1877
label: Names
content: British Museum
label: Names
content: Musée du Louvre
label: Collector
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Collector
content: Van Beek, Gus W. (Gus Willard), 1922-
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Greek
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Roman
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Egyptian
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
creator: label: Creator
content: Braun, Adolphe, 1811-1877
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Adolphe Braun (1811-1877) was a French photographer and pioneer of photographic reproduction techniques at his studios in Paris and Dornach. Mostly created after 1866, his photographs of famous works of art helped advance the field of art history; this was his most successful photographic project.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 68 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1866-1877
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: This collection was found in the files in the office of Gus Van Beek, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian, and transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1979. The photographs appear to have been in the custody of the Division of Old World Archeology in the United States National Museum. Some photographs were donated by Lucy Hunter Baird on bequest of Professor Spencer Baird to the United States National Museum Department of Anthropology (accession 57117), 1914.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.79-34
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Roman, Greek, Assyrian, and Egyptian sculpture in European museums. Most of the images were made in the British Museum, but others were made at the Vatican, the Louvre, and in Florence.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs and drawings of paleolithic sites, previously filed in 79-34, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 157.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-38.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs donated by Lucy Hunter Baird as part of accession 57117 can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and Photo Lot 97.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Lucy Hunter Baird also donated artifacts to the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accession 57117.