Photographs, 1910-1952.

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Photographs, 1910-1952.

Photographs documenting Martin Johnson's earlier years when he opened a theater in Independence, Kan. where he showed pictures he had taken while cruising the South Seas with Jack London. Also documents Martin and Osa Johnson's expeditions to Borneo, 1919 and 1935. Some personal memorabilia and portraits are included as well as a crown view of a Zebra specimen. Photographs also by Leon Boltin, copy photographs by Charles H. Coles.

14 photonegatives : b&w.1 photoprint : b&w.12 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.

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Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953

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Osa Johnson (March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) was an American adventurer and documentary filmmaker with her spouse Martin Johnson. In the first half of the 20th century the couple captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown...

Johnson, Martin Elmer, 1884-1937

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Martin E. Johnson was an explorer, expert photographer and filmmaker. Johnson went on his first expedition to the South Pacific, then returned with his wife for a second expedition. On joining the Explorers Club in 1921, Johnson met Carl Akeley and the two began forming the Martin Johnson Expedition Corporation. The idea was to use Johnson's popular films as a way to raise money for the Akeley African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The Johnsons went on five expeditions to Africa...

Coles, Charles H.

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Boltin, Leon.

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