Frank Kellogg Smith travel photographs and memorabilia
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photograph albums, loose photographs, and memorabilia compiled by Frank Kellogg Smith of his travels, predominately in western and central Europe, southern and eastern Africa, and the southern Pacific region, primarily from 1898-1922, with additional materials to circa 1889-1959. Strengths of the collection include photographic documentation at the turn of the twentieth century of localities and peoples in southern and eastern Africa, as well as southeastern Europe.
Titles to the albums come from imprinted titles or manuscript inscriptions by Smith.
Several images are duplicated in photographic prints in different albums, especially those albums documenting trips in Africa. Albums in boxes 14-18 primarily possess photographic prints that duplicate images in the albums in boxes 1-13.
Many of the photographic prints are accompanied by manuscript captions in the negative or in the albums.
Dates
- 1898 - 1959
- Majority of material found within 1898 - 1922
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Frank Kellogg Smith Travel Photographs and Memorabilia is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bonnie F. Young and A David Young, Jr., 2006.
Arrangement
Photograph albums in the collection are arranged chronologically, followed by loose photographic materials, which includes photographs by Smith and others, and then by memorabilia, which includes artwork, maps, papers, and then by oversize materials.
Extent
3 Linear Feet ((20 boxes) + 2 broadside folders)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection consists of photograph albums, loose photographs, and memorabilia compiled by Frank Kellogg Smith that document his travels, predominately in western and central Europe, southern and eastern Africa, and the southern Pacific region, primarily from 1898-1922. Locations in Europe include Azerbaijan, Belgium, Channel Islands, France, Georgia, Great Britain (consisting of trips to England and Scotland), Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Locations in Africa include Egypt, Kenya, Madeira Islands, Mozambique, Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe), Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, and Zanzibar, as well as Victoria Falls and the Nile River. Locations in the Pacific include Australia, Canada, Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States of America, which consist of views in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
Biography of Frank Kellogg Smith
Frank Kellogg Smith was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on April 15, 1873. His parents were Walter O. Smith (b. 1843) and Henrietta "Nettie" Wells Smith (b. 1848). In 1900 he was employed as a clerk, but by 1911 he was the representative for the United States Steel Corporation in South Africa. Smith later worked for the Standard Oil Company of New York. His residences in the United States included homes in Bronxville and New York City, New York, and Ivoryton, Connecticut. Smith married Isabelle Cleveland Kelsey on July 11, 1911; she died on February 12, 1943, in Ivoryton, Connecticut. He then married Sarah Anneke Van Ellendorf Lancraft on August 24, 1965. Smith was a member and president of the Circumnavigators Club, an organization devoted to bringing together those men and women who have circumnavigated the globe. Smith died in November 1968.
- Africa -- Pictorial works
- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Circumnavigators' Club (New York, N.Y.)
- Europe -- Pictorial works
- New Zealand -- Pictorial works
- Pacific Area -- Pictorial works
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
- Smith, Frank Kellogg, 1873-1968
- Socony-Vacuum Oil Company -- Employees
- United States -- Pictorial works
- United States Steel Corporation -- Employees
- Voyages and travels -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the Frank Kellogg Smith Travel Photographs and Memorabilia
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Matthew D. Mason
- Date
- May 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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