Joseph Stanley-Brown lantern slide collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 54
name: label: Collector
content: Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
label: Names
content: Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909 (possible collector)
label: Donor
content: Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield, 1867-1947
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Inuit

Alaskan Eskimo
place: label: Place
content: Washington (D.C.)
label: Place
content: Alaska
label: Place
content: Chilkoot Trail
topic: label: Topic
content: Cowboys
label: Topic
content: Whaling
label: Topic
content: Fisheries
label: Topic
content: Sealing
label: Topic
content: Museum exhibits
creator: label: Collector
content: Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
culture: label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Unangax̂ (Aleut)
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Born in Washington, DC, Joseph Stanley-Brown (1858-1941) served as private secretary to President James A. Garfield and to President Chester A. Arthur after Garfield's assassination.  In 1882, he joined the US Geological Survey and was appointed Assistant Geologist (1888-1889).  Stanley-Brown was appointed in 1891 by the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate conditions in the seal industry on the Pribilof islands, which was a contentious issue between the United States and Great Britain. He represented the United States as secretary to the Bering Sea Joint Commission and to commissioners at the Fur Seal Tribunal of Arbitration, Paris, France. He later became a superintendent and leaseholder for the North American Commercial Companyʹs government-regulated sealing activities on the Pribilofs and Unalaska, and worked with several railroad companies.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 460 Lantern slides (circa)
label: Extent
content: silver gelatin; 27 mounted panoramas (each made from 3-5 prints)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1888-1898
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated to the United States National Museum by Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown in USNM ACC 165342 in 1943.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.54
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Partial inventory is available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Lantern slides, probably largely collected by Joseph Stanley-Brown while stationed at Dutch Harbor in charge of the Pribilof Island seal fisheries, from 1890-1898.  Images of Alaska include scenery, towns, seal hunting and preparation, fishing, whaling, boats, churches, livestock, Inuit and Aleut people, and the Chilkoot Pass and images relating to the Klondike gold rush.  There are also slides of related maps and charts, and images of buildings in Washington, DC, exhibits at the Smithsonian Institutuion, and cowboys, possibly on the Great Plains.  Some lantern slides have labels from "E. H. Harriman, 1 E. 55th Street, New York."
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs collected by Joseph Stanley Brown held in National Anthropological Archives in the Department of Anthropology Records (Manuscript and Pamphlet File), Photo Lot 24, and Photo Lot 37.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hold Joseph Stanley-Brown correspondence in the Frederick William True Papers, circa 1886-1910.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional lantern slides collected by Stanley-Brown and donated as part of USNM ACC 165342 held in National Museum of American History, Archives Center in the Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Library of Congress holds Joseph Stanley-Brown papers, 1730-1941.