Details - Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 [actually 1932]

Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 [actually 1932]

Title

Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 [actually 1932] volume X 1910-1920

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Alternative: Random records, volume 10

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Contained In: Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931

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Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 , creator

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Collection

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Archival material

Publication info

1910-1920

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Binder's title: Random records

Typewritten manuscript

This is the tenth of sixteen volumes that document the life and work of William Henry Holmes. He combined text and original supporting documents including drawings, watercolors, photographs, correspondence, official documents, news clippings, and memorabilia. The volume contains five sections: I. Introductory. Portrait group of Smithsonian associates. Transfer from Bureau [of American Ethnology] to U.S. National Museum; II. The Powell monuments [at] Grand Canyon and Arlington; III. Explorations in Guatemala with Sylvanus G. Morley, 1916; IV. Seventieth birthday banquet and presentation of 500 page volume of essays by associates and friends; V. Current gallery activities, 1910-1920

William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) was an anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, and geologist, who spent much of his career affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. He studied art under Theodore Kauffman, and went on to work as a scientific illustrator with Smithsonian staff. In 1872, he was appointed artist-topographer to the United States survey of the territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden, and in 1874 was appointed assistant geologist. He went on to work with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), until returning to the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum (USNM). Holmes eventually became head curator of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology and Director of the National Gallery of Art.