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Russell E. Train Africana collection

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

Creator
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
Names
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926
Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955
Glave, E. J. (Edward James)
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972
Place
Africa -- Maps
Africa -- description and travel
Africa -- Discovery and exploration
Africa -- In art
Topic
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Africa
Wildlife conservation -- Africa
Natural history -- Technique
Natural history -- Africa
Hunting -- Africa
Explorers -- Africa
Provenance
Originally assembled by the Honorable Russell E. Train, a former judge, top administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a past president of the World Wildlife Fund, this collection was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in 2004.
Creator
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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Russell E. Train Africana collection
Summary
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.
Extent
6,500 Items (estimated)
Date
1663-2004
Archival Repository
Smithsonian Libraries
Identifier
SIL-CL.XXXX-0014
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Arrangement note
Organized into ten series, primarily based on format or creator: I. Artifacts, 1663-1999; II. Works of Art, 1663-1999; III. Books, 1900-1986; IV. Edmund Heller personal papers, 1875-1939; V. Manuscripts, 1663-1992; VI. Maps, 1878; VII. Newspapers, 1888-1987; VIII. Robert Henry Nelson personal papers, 1795-1912; VIII. Photographs, 1874-1963; IX. Posters and broadsides, 1814-1955; X. Russell E. Train personal papers, 1956-2004.
Rights
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email [email protected] for an appointment.
Other Finding Aids note
A print copy of the original inventory is available in the Cullman Library.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa. The Train Collection is particularly strong in archival materials on the following topics: the search for the source of the Nile and the progress of other exploring expeditions in Africa; the collecting of specimens of African animals, plants, and ethnological materials for zoos and museums (including a significant body of correspondence and photographs from the Smithsonian African Expedition in 1909-1910, led by President Theodore Roosevelt); and the growth of the African wildlife conservation movement. Besides Roosevelt, the major persons represented in the Collection include the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley and members of his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, James S. Jameson, John Rose Troup, William Bonny, William G. Stairs, Edmund Barttelot, and Arthur J. M. Jephson); the medical missionary Dr. David Livingstone and his father-in-law Robert Moffat; taxidermist Carl Akeley; zoologist Edmund Heller; hunter Frederick Courtenay Selous; artist and adventure writer A. Radclyffe Dugmore; explorers Samuel White Baker, Thomas Baines, Richard Francis Burton and E.J. Glave; anthropologist Paul Belloni du Chaillu; and royal traveler Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor). Consult the finding aid for more specific information on materials relating to these persons and other people and organizations represented in the Collection.
Separated Materials note
In addition to these archival and non-book materials, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries acquired more than 1500 printed books as part of the Russell E. Train Collection; these books are listed individually in the SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) online catalog.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503510890585-1503510890660-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2dbdcfacc-0c10-4faa-80a5-7fdcab16da9c

In the Collection

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  • Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) dinner in honor of Henry Morton Stanley, Grosvenor Gallery, London

  • Photograph albums documenting the Prince of Wales's trips to Africa

  • Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919. Autograph letter signed to Major J.B. Pond, written from "6 Carlton House Terrace S.W."

  • Domestic servant's pocket register. Colony and Protectorate of Kenya

  • African game photographs, primarily showing game shot in the field, possibly in Rhodesia

  • Frederick Courteney Selous newspaper clippings (mainly obituaries)

  • Dasmann, Raymond Fredric, 1919-2002. Autograph letter signed to Russell E. Train

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Autobiographical sketch

  • Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896. Autograph invitation to attend Sir Richard F. Burton's funeral at Mortlake

  • Thaw, Margaret Stout. Autograph diary covering an East African safari, sailing from New York, and closing in Buenos Aires

  • Clark, Percy M., 1874-1937, photographer. Souvenir of the Victoria Falls, 12 photographs of the Falls and environs

  • Mackenzie, John, 1835-1899. Collection of autograph letters signed and autograph retained copies (mostly signed)

  • Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens (Wis.). Treasurer's report for the Milwaukee Zoo for the year ending 1 October 1931

  • Parker, Henry Perrott, 1852-1888. Autograph letter signed to his mother, written on the way to Mamboia

  • Millar, Harold Martel, 1865-1961. Manuscript of the Birds of Southern Africa

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to "My dear sir" to Sir Richard Southey, Colonial Secretary of the Cape of Good Hope, from "River) Zambezi"

  • Cameron, Verney Lovett, 1844-1894. Autograph letter signed to unknown recipient

  • Henry Morton Stanley photographs

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed from "Cataracts of Shire," to his sponsor James Young

  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Printed ticket for the Zoological Society of London, signed by Rudyard Kipling, granting admission for one adult and two children to the gardens in Regent's Park

  • Certificate of Edmund Heller's election to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

  • Captain Roy John Dugdale "Samaki" Salmon portrait sketch (photograph)

  • Abel Chapman, 1851-1929. Sudan sketchbooks

  • Galler, J. G., active 1822-1834. Journal of a cruise down the east coast of Africa on board H.M.S. Andromache

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Pencil notes, apparently on the topic of his typescript article about the Roosevelt elephant hunt

  • Autograph letter signed, "Bob" to Mrs. J.A. Brooke

  • Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875. Autograph journal of his first journey into the South African gold fields, Transvaal and Matabeleland

  • Ogilby, William, 1808-1873. Autograph letter signed to Richard Taylor, from 47, Gower Street

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, artist. Grisaille study of beaver(s) building their dam

  • Unidentified piece of metal formerly in the possession of Robert Henry Nelson, possibly dating from his time with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

  • Robert Henry Nelson personal papers

  • Younghusband, Ethel, photographer. Photo album pertaining to her book, Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar, 1910

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Narrative concerning birth of lion clubs at the Milwaukee Zoo

  • Artifacts

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Numerous book reviews by Heller

  • Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898. Autograph letter signed to Sir Roderick Murchison, from 11 Carlton House, Terrace S.W.

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. "Geographical tasks for future explorers," an undated draft article /Henry Morton Stanley

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to his father Henry Nelson, informing him that the Administrator General had agreed with his actions

  • London Stereoscopic Company. Photographic portrait of 'Pasha Gordon' (i.e., Charles George Gordon), taken at Khartoum and printed on cardboard in London

  • Pratt, George D. (George Dupont), 1869-1935. Typescript of With gun and camera in the heart of darkest Africa. A sillygism

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Colles, Surrey

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939, photographer. One glass slide of an African camp scene

  • Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, artist. Drawing, "Herd of black wildebeest commencing to run and separate into three curves"

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Miscellaneous items

  • Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892. Series of 9 autograph letters, all to the Rev. Thomas Wakefield, a Methodist missionary in East Africa

  • Quesada, Elwood R. (Elwood Richard), 1904-. Typed transcript of a taped interview between Russell E. Train and General Quesada about Quesada's safari with Martin and Osa Johnson of 1932

  • Burger, John F., 1888-. Typed manuscript of Horned death, with author's corrections (Standard Publications, Huntington, 1947)

  • Henry Morton Stanley, Robert Henry Nelson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson, and William Grant Stairs group photograph

  • Vanity Fair cartoon, "Big Game," depicting F.C. Selous

  • Waller, Horace, 1833-1896. Butterflies collected in the Shire Valley, East Africa

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Typed letter signed to Akeley, on White House stationery

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Typescript of Martin Colby and Quills. A story of Canada and of a man who was brutalized by his experience in the War

  • Edward, Duke of Windsor collection of safari photographs, including photos of the Prince and others, possibly including Karen Blixen

  • Savage Club (London, England) menu and table plan for a Dinner of Welcome to Henry Morton Stanley

  • Smit, J., artist. Original watercolor of 3 zebra

  • Printed certificates presented to Captain Robert Henry Nelson, marking his part in the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, received from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Société de géographie d'Anvers, and the Société belge de géographie, together with related items

  • Bruce, Agnes Livingstone, 1847-1912. Autograph diary

  • Extensive group of newspaper cuttings and special supplements reporting the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley and his party back to Britain, together with accounts of the adventures of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and copies of letters debating the various points of controversy, as published in the "Graphic", in "The Times", and "The Yorkshire Post"

  • Sloane, A. D., Major. Typed document, "The Elephant Hunt"

  • Schindler, Fritz, -1914, photographer. Album of personal photos taken on safari

  • Russell E. Train personal papers

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Miscellaneous letters on various matters, such as lost luggage

  • Books of Rhodesia (Firm) Newspaper clipping announcing the Rhodesian reprint of Frederick Courteney Selous' last book, Travel and adventure in south-east Africa

  • Waller, A. Sydney (Arthur Sydney), 1882-1952, compiler. Scrapbook of photographs of the Waller family and friends in Southern Rhodesia

  • Scenes in hot latitudes and travels in search of the Wishi Washi to its junction with the Puddi Muddi

  • Savage Club (London, England) menu and table plan for a Dinner of Welcome to Henry Morton Stanley, 7 June 1890

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Autograph letter signed to Akeley, from Meru Boma

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed to his father Henry Nelson, 3 November 1892, wishing all a Merry Christmas, relating experiences with natives and referring to his proposed marriage

  • Oswell, William Edward. Collection of about 50 letters written during a fourteen year period to Mr. William Morris Colles, his agent

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed to Arthur Mills. 8 Dover Street, Piccadilly

  • Sepia-toned print captioned "Livingstone weak from fever escorted to Shinte's town"

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Lecture, "The founding of the Congo state"

  • Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892. Autograph letter signed, from Robert H. Nelson to his father, from the S.S. Ethiopia, 24 February 1892, en route to East Africa, together with a telegram stating that "He has a very good state-room"

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph letter signed to Sir Walter Besant, from Alpine Lodge, Surrey, 12 July

  • Bell, Walter Dalrymple Maitland, 1880-1951. Manuscript journal of his safari in French Somaliland

  • Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. Letters of introduction for Edmund Heller

  • Photographs

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Telegrams to Akeley, received in Africa

  • Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917. Autograph title page for African nature notes and reminiscences, bearing Selous' signature, together with a typescript of the Preface

  • Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Letter to Mr. Walter

  • Parker, Henry Perrott, 1852-1888. Autograph letter signed to Rosie (a niece), from Taveta, Chagga, East Africa

  • Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955. Autobiography

  • Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord, 1849-1895. Autograph letters signed, written to Mr. Fleetwood Wilson, from 2 Connaught Place, W. (London)

  • Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939. Draft article on the Milwaukee Zoo and its history

  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Draft of poem, "The Power of the Dog"

  • Forfeitt, William L., 1861-1939, photographer. Collection of old Congo photos

  • Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, artist. Drawing, "Leopard pouncing on Nyala"

  • Pound, Daniel J., David Livingstone, esquire, L.L.D., H.M. consul at Quillimane, East Africa, engraved by D.J. Pound, from a photograph by Mayall

  • Holder, Edward Henry, 1847-1922, artist. Oil painting, "Kudus at Victoria Falls"

  • Robert Henry Nelson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson, and William Grant Stairs group photograph

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Theodore Roosevelt autograph letter signed to Akeley, from Meru

  • Review of Mary S. Lovell's biography of Beryl Markham, Straight on till morning, from the London Times

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Untitled speech on slavery

  • Hollis and Sons. Ten-bore half stocked percussion shot and ball gun, made for the African trade, with the stock extended and native repairs with shrunken leather, and native brass wire

  • Documents relating to the founding of the Nyasaland Protectorate

  • Somerset, Charles H., 1767-1831. Proclamation

  • Parker, Henry Perrott, 1852-1888. Autograph letter to his mother, "Bishop's Tent" (?), East Africa

  • Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904. Autograph remarks, unsigned, addressed to "Ladies & Gentlemen of the Ancient & Honourable Company of Turners"

  • Six chronological prints of African antelope

  • Pitman, C. R. S. (Charles Robert Senhouse), 1890-. Autograph letter signed to Kenneth Carr, Kampala, The Game Warden, Entebbe, Uganda

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