Guy N. Collins photographs of Liberia
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 90-27, USNM ACC 374065
name: label: Creator
content: Collins, G. N. (Guy N.), 1872-1938
label: Names
content: Cook, O. F. (Orator Fuller), 1867-1949
place: label: Place
content: Liberia
topic: label: Topic
content: Canoes and canoeing
label: Topic
content: Plants
label: Topic
content: Dwellings
label: Topic
content: Botany
creator: label: Creator
content: Collins, G. N. (Guy N.), 1872-1938
culture: label: Culture
content: Kpelle (African people)
label: Culture
content: Mende (African people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Guy N. Collins (1872-1938) was a botanist, geneticist, and plant explorer.  While on hiatus from his undergraduate studies at Syracuse, Collins developed an interest in photography during an expedition in Liberia with Orator Fuller Cook.  After the Spanish-American War, he worked for the office of Botanical Investigations and Experiments in the US Department of Agriculture.  Collins joined Cook's exploration of Puerto Rican plant life, the results of which were published by the Smithsonian Institution in "Economic Plants of Porto Rico."  Collins later became Principal Botanist in the USDA's Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases of the Bureau of Plant Industry and was a founder of the Washington Biologists' Field Club.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 35 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891-1911
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Perez H. Collins, Guy N. Collins's son, to the Department of Anthropology in 1986 (accession 374065). Photographs transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1990.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.90-27
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 documenting Liberian people and the Liberian natural and built environments, including the Saint Paul River, rock formations, barricades, dwellings, and other structures.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Liberian objects collected by Collins and donated with the photographs can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 374065.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Collins's field book from 1915 can be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA Acc. 12-011.