John R. Spears photographs from trip to Greenland
odd: label: General
content: USNM Accession #: 26,109
name: label: Creator
content: Spears, John Randolph, 1850-1936
place: label: Place
content: Greenland
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was donated by John R. Spears in 1892.
creator: label: Creator
content: Spears, John Randolph, 1850-1936
culture: label: Culture
content: Inuit -- Greenland
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content: John R. Spears photographs from trip to Greenland
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John R. Spears (1850-1936) was an Ohio-born writer and journalist.  He worked in the printing office of a local newspaper during the Civil War, which served as his introduction to the world of journalism.  In 1866, he entered the naval academy, but after three years, he returned to newspaper journalism and worked as writer and editor at several different papers.  In the early 1880s, he took a job as travelling correspondent for The Sun in New York, which sent him on assignments all over the world.  In addition to his newspaper writing, he published short stories and non-fictional books on a wide array of topics.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Photographic prints (albumen)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.178
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: These photographs have been relocated from Photo Lot 24.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These photographs were taken by John R. Spears during a trip to Greenland in the fall of 1890.  His subjects include the people and activities of the Greenlandic Inuit, as well as landscapes of the Arsuk Fjord.  Photos are arranged in the approximate order they were taken, based on Spears' description of his travels as serialized in the New York Sun between December 28, 1890, and January 25, 1891. Copies of relevent pages from The Sun are included with this collection for researcher convenience.

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