Title
Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 [that is, 1932] Cullings, largely personal, from the scrap heap of three score years and ten, devoted to science, literature and art
Title Variants
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Random records
By
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
, author,
Neary, Ella,
, contributor
Zilber, Susan,
, contributor
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Type
Collection
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1846-1932
Notes
Chiefly a typewritten manuscript, with additional related materials
Subtitle varies
Additional documents in pockets in some volumes
Volume 12 has two parts: part 1 is a bound volume; part 2 (also known as the supplement to volume 12) is a paperboard portfolio containing additional documents relating to the Freer Gallery of Art
Volumes 17-20 (personal contents) not given to the library
The water color sketches from volume 20 are owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: volume 1. Brief Biography, Positions Held, Loubat Prizes, Medals, etc., Societies and Clubs, Bibliography -- volume 2. Explorations, Episodes and Adventures, Expositions and Congresses -- volume 3, part 1. Yellowstone Explorations, 1872. Part 2. Yellowstone Explorations, 1878 -- volume 4, part 1. Colorado Explorations, 1873, 74, 75, 76 & 87. Part 2. The Cliff Dwellers -- volume 5. Europe 1879-80; Grand Canyon of the Colorado; Explorations in Mexico with Jackson and the Chains; Colorado with Powell and Langley, 1887 -- volume 6. Aboriginal Bowlder Quarries, Piney Branch, D.C., Soapstone Quarries, Paint Mines, and Lay Figure Groups -- volume 7. The Chicago Venture, University Exposition, Field Museum, Yucatan, Return to Washington,1892-97 -- volume 8. Cuba with Powell; Jamaica with Langley; Mexico with Gilbert and Dutton; California with McGee; Physical Anthropology, Hrdlicka, Current Work 1900
Contents: (continued) -- volume 9. Chief Period, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1910; Visits to Stutgart and Chile, 1908 -- volume 10. Transfer to the Museum June 10, 1910, the Guatemalian Trip, Powell Monuments, Seventieth Birthday Celebration, 1920 -- volume 11. Director of the National Gallery of Art -- volume 12, part 1. The Freer Gallery of Art -- volume 12, part 2. The Freer Gallery of Art (continued) -- volume 13. Portraits, Smithsonian Institution -- volume 14. Portraits, Bureau of American Ethnology. National Gallery of Art, and Miscellaneous -- volume 15. Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art -- volume 16. Various Articles on Art and the Art Gallery -- volumes 17-19. Personal -- volume 20. Personal. Water Color Sketches -- volume 21. Tables of contents, volumes 1-16
Subjects
(Charles Henry),
,
(Clarence Edward),
,
(Samuel Pierpont),
,
1834-1902
,
1834-1906
,
1841-1912
,
1843-1942
,
1846-1933
,
1853-1912
,
1859-1928
,
1869-1943
,
Anthropology
,
Bureau of American Ethnology
,
Discovery and exploration
,
Dutton, Clarence E
,
Freer Gallery of Art
,
Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
,
Gilbert, Charles H
,
History
,
Holmes, William Henry,
,
Hrdlička, Aleš,
,
Jackson, William Henry,
,
Langley, S. P
,
McGee, W J,
,
Museums
,
National Gallery of Art (U.S. : 1906-1937)
,
North America
,
Powell, John Wesley,
,
Smithsonian Institution
,
United States
,
United States National Museum
,
West (U.S.)
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Call Number
CT275.H75 A1
Identifiers
OCLC:
9158693
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