J. F. McClendon photographs and postcard collection relating to Ainu people
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 102
name: label: Creator
content: McClendon, J. F. (Jesse Francis), b. 1880
topic: label: Topic
content: Fishing
label: Topic
content: Hunting
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
creator: label: Creator
content: McClendon, J. F. (Jesse Francis), b. 1880
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Jesse Francis McClendon was born in Lanett, Alabama, in 1880. He studied zoology and invertebate zoology at the University of Texas (BS, 1903 and MS, 1904) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1906). After teaching at Randolph-Macon College (1907-1908), the University of Missouri (1907-1909) and Cornell University (1909-1914), McClendon obtained a position in the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He was appointed professor and head of physiological chemistry in 1920. McClendon taught for a period at the Biological Institute in Sendai, Japan, probably while still with the University of Minnesota during the 1930s. His book, Advances in the Science of Nutrition, was published by Sasaki in Sendai (1937). In 1939, McClendon joined the Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. He later became a research chemist at the Albert Einstein Medical Center there.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 33 Postcards (offset lithograph, photogravure, and collotype)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930s
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Jesse. F. McClendon, November 1970.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.102
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Preliminary finding aid available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Album of photographs documenting Ainu people, ceremonies, religious customs, fishing, hunting, and other activities. J. F. McClendon evidently assembled the material in order to try to show that Native Americans and Ainu people were not directly related. The collection includes commercial postcards published in Japanese and English and original photographs probably made by McCLendon.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The University of Minnesota Archives and the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia hold McClendon's papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Entomology Department and Invertebrate Zoology Department hold specimens collected by McClendon.