Papers, 1913-1995.

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Papers, 1913-1995.

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The papers include all variety of materials surrounding the life of Anne Eisner Putnam (AEP), some materials concerning the business of Camp Putnam, and notes and data on the Mbuti Pygmies. The materials concerning AEP's artistic career include: original drawings; lithographs of drawings; sketchbooks; loose sketches; slides, photographs and negatives of paintings and watercolors; juvenilia; portrait sketches; and costume studies. Subjects of original drawings are primarily Africa, life of the Pygmies, abstracts, nudes, figures, still life, portraits of Patrick Putnam, among others. There is a fairly complete set of photographs and slides of AEP's paintings and watercolors. Also includes art exhibition photos of her works taken by photographers Peter A. Juley, Aaron Siskind, and others. The writings series includes AEP's autograph manuscripts, typescripts and carbons, notebooks, notes, journals, stories, transcriptions of Pygmie legends, drafts and notes for Madami, lecture notes, and drafts for lectures. Topics concern the Mbuti Pygmies and all aspects of life at Camp Putnam such as gardening, African languages, movie ideas, Ituri forest animals and people, weddings, ceremonies, and many others. Other series include: materials concerning the Putnam collection now housed at the American Museum of Natural History; anthropologist Colin Turnbull; Camp Putnam miscellany (including guest registers); financial and banking records of both AEP and Camp Putnam, and biographical miscellany concerning AEP such as clippings, passports, resumes, and other material. Correspondence includes: friends and family (both Eisners and Putnams), banking and financial correspondence, condolence letters to the family on AEP's death, and some third-party correspondence. The visual materials series, is a combination of all the visual materials from the Anne Eisner Putnam papers and the Patrick Putnam papers (unprocessed as of January 2006). This includes photographs, slides, negatives, prints, printed graphics, picture postcards, and a few manuscript lists concerning groups of images. Subjects of images concern the Putnam family, Eisner family, early lives of both AEP and Patrick Putnam, Patrick Putnam's early trips to Europe (1924), the Far East (1925-1927), New Mexico (1938), and his African years before he met AEP (beginning 1927). There are extensive photographs of Camp Putnam, the Belgium Congo and other areas of Africa (especially Nigeria), Mbuti Pygmies and other African natives, African collection items, portraits of individuals and groups, African animals, and other topics. Includes photographs by the photographers: Colin M. Turnbull, Herbert Lang, Francis S. Chapman, Aaron Siskind, and others.

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American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

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Siskind, Aaron, 1971-

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Siskind, Aaron. American Photographer. Born: New York City, 4 December 1903. Education: DeWitt Clinton High School, New York; City College of New York, B.S.S. in literature 1926; self-taught in photography. Family: Married Sidonie Glaller in 1929. Instructor in English, various public schools, New York, 1926-49. Took first photos, Bermuda, 1930; professional freelance photographer since 1932. Member of the Film and Photo League, New York, 1932-35, 1936-41. Part-time Instructor in Photography, Tr...

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Chapman, Francis S.

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Putnam, Anne Eisner

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Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was a New York abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art. She was also one of the founders of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and later a writer, her best known book being her account of her experiences in the former Belgian Congo, Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pygmies . Together with her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), she ran a compound known as Camp Putnam in the Congo (now...

Lang, Herbert

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Turnbull, Colin M.

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Putnam, Patrick Tracy Lowell, 1903 or 1904-1953

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Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953) was born into a wealthy and well-connected New England family. Initially an only child, his parents eventually adopted six additional children. During his undergraduate career (Harvard, 1925), Putnam studied anthropology after joining an expedition to Dutch New Guinea under the tutelage of Professor Earnest A. Hooton. Upon graduating, Putnam developed an interest in the Congo Pygmies: from 1928-1930, Putnam carried out ethnological studies in ...