Robert and Elizabeth Webb photographs of world travels
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 98-9
name: label: Creator
content: Webb, Robert Watkins, 1906-1998
label: Names
content: Webb, Elizabeth N. (possible photographer)
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content: India -- description and travel
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content: Japan -- Description and Travel
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content: Singapore -- Description and Travel
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content: Serbia -- description and travel
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content: Scotland -- description and travel
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content: Russia -- Description and Travel
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content: Sri Lanka -- Description and Travel
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content: Spain -- description and travel
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content: South Africa -- Description and Travel
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content: Chile -- description and travel
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content: Somalia -- description and travel
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content: Palestine -- description and travel
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content: Peru -- Description and Travel
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content: Nepal -- Description and Travel
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content: Norway -- description and travel
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content: Egypt -- description and travel
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content: Portugal -- description and travel
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content: Romania -- description and travel
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content: Philippines -- Description and Travel
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content: Poland -- description and travel
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content: Kenya -- Description and Travel
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content: Israel -- Description and Travel
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content: China -- Description and Travel
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content: Morocco -- description and travel
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content: Mozambique -- description and travel
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content: Mexico -- description and travel
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content: Montenegro -- description and travel
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content: Croatia -- description and travel
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content: Denmark -- description and travel
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content: Czech Republic -- Description and Travel
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content: Burma -- Description and Travel
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content: Bulgaria -- description and travel
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content: Canada -- Description and Travel
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content: Austria -- description and travel
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content: Brazil -- Description and Travel
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content: Borneo -- description and travel
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content: England -- description and travel
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content: France -- description and travel
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content: Ecuador -- Description and Travel
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content: Holland -- Description and Travel
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content: Guatemala -- Description and Travel
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content: Greece -- description and travel
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content: Germany -- description and travel
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content: Ireland -- description and travel
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content: Iran -- Description and Travel
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content: Italy -- description and travel
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content: Hungary -- description and travel
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content: United States -- description and travel
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content: Thailand -- description and travel
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content: Taiwan -- description and travel
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content: Switzerland -- description and travel
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content: Yugoslavia -- description and travel
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content: Yucatan -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture
creator: label: Creator
content: Webb, Robert Watkins, 1906-1998
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Robert Watkins Webb (1906-1998) graduated from Southern Methodist University and received his medical degree from Tulane University in 1933. Before starting his psychiatry practice in Dallas, Webb traveled around the world, returning on the SS Normandie to New York (1938). An amateur photographer, Webb documented this and subsequent foreign trips, later submitting some of his photographs to the Dallas Museum of Art.  He served four years in the Army during World War II,stationed primarily in Port Moresby, New Guinea.  He later became chief psychiatrist of the Veterans Administration clinic in Washington, DC, from 1946-1950. In 1952, he married Elizabeth Nutting, a psychiatric social worker, while cruising the Mediterranean.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 53 Slides (53 black and white copy slides)
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content: 20 Color slides (circa)
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content: 1,500 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (some in photo albums))
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content: 1,000 Items (circa 1000 copy color prints (made from slides))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1996
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Robert W. Webb and Elizabeth Webb through Charles G. Markward, 1998.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.98-9
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Slides
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content: Color slides
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content: Prints
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content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Robert and Elizabeth Webb in numerous locations across the world, including Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo, Singapore, Thailand, Burma, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and Russia); the Balkans (Czech Republic, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland); Europe (Spain, England, France, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Portugal); the Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Israel, and Palestine); Africa (Kenya, Morocco, Somalia, Mozambique, and South Africa); South America (Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Yucatan, and Guatemala); and North America (Canada, Florida, Washington state, Alaska, Hawaii, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah). The photographs largely document architecture and art, including historical sites, though there are additional images of parades, transportation, cities, villages, markets, waterways, and people.

Commercial slides in the collection are by Swiss-Foto, E. Djupdraet, Herz-Color-Dias, Hong Kong Color Slide Service, SK Slide Co., Lehnert & Landrock, Douglas Whiteside, Vacation Films, Arctic Circle Enterprise, HI-FI Color Slides, Pana-Vue Slides, CP Inc., Jordan's Colour Lab, Hawaii Chrome, Syon House, John Decopoulos, La Goelette, and Zerkowitz. Notes by Robert Webb and original photograph albums are also available with the collection.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University holds Robert W. Webb photographs.