Roy Chapman Andrews Field Photographs of the Philippine Expedition (1907-1910) and the Japanese Whaling Expedition (1910)

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: PPC-.A62

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photographic print and digitized negative collection documenting Roy Chapman Andrews' participation on the Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910 and the Japanese Whaling Expedition, 1910. The photographs in this collection were taken by Andrews on nitrate negatives, glass negatives, and safety film. Though two separate expeditions, the image records from both have been grouped together historically, particularly within the box of photographic prints which organizes images by location taken, rather than by expedition or date.

The print photographs available in PPC .A62 were printed and mounted on filecards for the Library’s historic photographic reference files. It represents only a portion of the original negatives stored separately in the Archives. This collection includes images that have been digitized from both the negative and print sources. Links to the digitized assets are available in “Digital Material” by expedition.

There are 497 photoprints mounted on 117 cards which include images from both expeditions. The Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910, contains 259 images digitized from photoprints and photonegatives (nitrate and glass plate negatives). The Japanese Whaling Expedition, 1910, contains 586 images digitized from photoprints and photonegatives (nitrate and glass plate negatives). Individual negative numbers are listed below by expedition, year and location.

Dates

1909 - 1910

Creator

Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Some materials in this collection are restricted due to content of the images, though they may be relevant to scholarly research and publication.

Biographical / Historical

The Philippine Expedition was a US Federal expedition aboard the S.S. Albatross. Commencing in 1907, director of the expedition was Hugh McCormick Smith, deputy commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. Its initial scientific crew included Frederick M. Chamberlain, Resident Naturalist; Lewis Radcliffe, General Assistant and Naturalist; H.C. Fasset, Fishery Expert; Paul Bartsch, malacologist, and representative of the Smithsonian; and Clarence M. Wells, Assistant and Clerk. Andrews was invited to join the expedition for its last leg to the Philippines in 1909 to study porpoises and collect land mammal and bird specimens on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. Throughout his journey to join the S.S. Albatross expedition and then while on board, Andrews created a vast collection of photographs. These photographs document people, urban and rural locales, sacred places, and everyday life in East and Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century. For a detailed itinerary of Philippine Expedition, please refer to this record: https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/agents/amnhc_2000080.

After the conclusion of the Philippine Expedition, Roy Chapman Andrews found himself in Nagasaki, Japan in February 1910. It was here that Andrews first encountered the extent of the Japanese whaling industry and made the decision to stay on in Japan to study and collect whale specimens for the museum. During the Japanese Whaling Expedition, 1910, Roy Chapman Andrews collected, photographed, and sent back to New York over 80 tons of whale and porpoise specimens, including those of gray whales, blue whales, sei whales, finbacks, humpbacks, killer whales, Northern right whale dolphins, Pacific white sided dolphins, and swordfish. The images from this expedition include scenes from the Japanese whaling industry, as well as photographs of specimens. Additional photographs of specimens from this expedition that were taken by other museum employees, notably Julius Kirschner and Thomas Lunt, have been tagged with the relevant exhbiiton and can be found within the museum's digital collection. For a detailed itinerary of the Japanese Whaling Expedition, please refer to this record: https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/agents/corporate_entities/4018.

Image ID spans by expedition, location, and year.

Philippine Expedition

1909 Oki Maru 14660-14665 (nitrate negatives)

1909 Japan 14666-14729 (nitrate negatives)

1909 Taiwan 14730-14733 (nitrate negatives)

1909 Hong Kong 14735-14743 (nitrate negatives)

1909 Philippines 14744-14764 (nitrate negatives)

1909 Albatross 14765-14769 (nitrate negatives)

1909 Indonesia 14772-14776, 14778, 14781-14804 (nitrate negatives)

1909 China 26601 (glass plate negative)

1909 Philippines 26626-26648 (glass plate negatives)

1909 Indonesia (DE Indies) 26692-26702, 26704-26711, 26719-26730, 26733-26737, 26739-26758, 26760-26767, 26769-26771 (glass plate negatives)

1910 S.S. Albatross 26588, 26590, 26591, 26657-26663, 26669, 26841 (glass plate negatives)

1910 China 26602, 26605, 26606, 26608, 26612-26625 (glass plate negatives)

1910 Taiwan (Formosa) 26681-26691 (glass plate negatives)

Japanese Whaling Expedition

1910 Japan 14809-14841 (nitrate negatives)

1910 Japan 26570, 26571, 26572, 26573, 26574, 26577, 26587, 26672-26680, 26783-26828, 26830-26840, 26844-26847, 26849-26956, 26958-26967, 26969-26989, 26996-27004,26848, 27005-27008, 27010-27023, 27030-27054, 27058-27060, 27074, 27085-27152, 27154-27198, 27200-27245, 27247-27256, 27258-27263, 27278-27290, 27296-27363, 27365-27367, 27369-27379, 27382-27384, 27386-27372 (glass plate negatives)

Extent

497 Photographic Prints (1 box) : 117 photo cards containing 497 prints.

586 Electronic Resources : 586 images from the Japanese Whaling Expedition, 1910, digitized from photographic prints, nitrate negatives, and glass negatives.

259 Electronic Resources : 259 images from the Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910, digitized from photographic prints, nitrate negatives, and glass negatives.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Nitrate negatives are stored in temperature-controlled freezers and are not available for use. Glass plate negatives are stored numerically by size. The glass plates may span several boxes.

Custodial History

Historically at the American Museum of Natural History, photographic collections and their associated metadata have been organized and managed based on format. Over time this obscured the intellectual or contextual links between related images across formats. This finding aid is an effort to reform the intellectual connections across the formats and by digitizing the collection, to provide visual access to Andrews’ early expeditions in Asia, in chronological order.

Related Materials

The specimens brought back by this expedition are held in the American Museum of Natural History Mammalogy Department. Please contact the department for more information. https://www.amnh.org/research/vertebrate-zoology/mammalogy/contact-us

Processing Information

Image ID spans by expedition, location, and year.

Philippine Expedition

Nitrates

1909 Oki Maru 14660-14665

1909 Japan 14666-14729

1909 Taiwan 14730-14733

1909 Hong Kong 14735-14743

1909 Philippines 14744-14764

1909 Albatross 14765-14769

1909 Indonesia 14772-14776, 14778, 14781-14804

Glass Plates

1909 China 26601

1909 Philippines 26626-26648

1909 Indonesia (DE Indies) 26692-26702, 26704-26711, 26719-26730, 26733-26737, 26739-26758, 26760-26767, 26769-26771

1910 S.S. Albatross 26588, 26590, 26591, 26657-26663, 26669, 26841

1910 China 26602, 26605, 26606, 26608, 26612-26625

1910 Taiwan (Formosa) 26681-26691

Japanese Whaling Expedition

Nitrates

1910 Japan 14809-14841

Glass Plates

1910 Japan 26570, 26571, 26572, 26573, 26574, 26577, 26587, 26672-26680, 26783-26828, 26830-26840, 26844-26847, 26849-26956, 26958-26967, 26969-26989, 26996-27004,26848, 27005-27008, 27010-27023, 27030-27054, 27058-27060, 27074, 27085-27152, 27154-27198, 27200-27245, 27247-27256, 27258-27263, 27278-27290, 27296-27363, 27365-27367, 27369-27379, 27382-27384, 27386-27372