Richard E. Ahlborn photographs of Luzon
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 83-23, NAA MS 4957
name: label: Creator
content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
place: label: Place
content: Banaue (Philippines)
label: Place
content: Philippines
label: Place
content: Bontoc (Mountain Province, Philippines)
topic: label: Topic
content: Villages
label: Topic
content: Terracing
label: Topic
content: Death and mortuary customs
label: Topic
content: Wake services
label: Topic
content: Religious articles
label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Creator
content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
culture: label: Culture
content: Bontoks (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Ifugao (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Igorot (Philippine people)
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content: Richard E. Ahlborn photographs of Luzon
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Richard E. Ahlborn is a cultural historian and curator in the Division of Community Life of the Smithsonianʹs National Museum of American History. In the 1950s, he was a photographer for the Department of Cultural History in the Museum of History and Technology.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Negatives (acetate)
label: Extent
content: 4 Color slides
label: Extent
content: 5 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958-1959
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Richard Ahlborn. Three prints (MS 4957) were donated in 1968 through Saul Riesenberg in the Department of Anthropology. The rest were donated directly in 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.83-23
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates for some photographs are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Richard Ahlborn during a study trip to Luzon's Mountain Province on a Fullbright grant. They document villages, houses, terraces, religious figures, a wake, and Igorot and Ifugao peoples in Banawe (Banaue) and Bontoc.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: MS 4957, previously filed in Photo Lot 97, has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 83-23. These photographs were also made by Richard E. Ahlborn in Luzon and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Ahlborn can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the Society for Historical Archaeology records and John Lawrence Angel's papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds curatorial, exhibition, agency, and departmental records for Ahlborn from his time in the Department of Cultural History and the Division of Community Life.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Latin American Library at Tulane University holds photographs by Ahlborn of Filipino-Hispanic architecture and art in the Philippines.