Graham Family Archives
Item set
- Title
- Graham Family Archives See all item sets with this value
- Description
- This collection consists of scanned glass plate images made from photographs taken by David Crockett Graham when he was a missionary in China, 1911-1948. Graham originally wrote the captions in the late 1950s. His daughter Dorothy Graham Edson annotated the captions in 1992, enclosing her text in square brackets and adding her initials, DGE. Most of the dated images are from between 1918 and 1927, but some are clearly from earlier and later. Graham was an anthropologist and natural science collector, so many of his images are of interest to ethnology and archaeology. See all item sets with this value
- Creator
- Graham, David Crockett
- Date Created
- 1911-1948 (The Graham's missionary years in West China)
- Location
- China See all item sets with this value
- Event Records
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1913 Graham's First Yangtze River Journey
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1924-1926 David Crockett Graham Mt. Omei Treks
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1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt
- Provenance
- The glass plates were made from DC Graham's negatives or prints by the Board of Missionary Cooperation of the Northern Baptist Convention. Many of these prints are now at the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian. DC Graham gave the glass plates to his daughter Dorothy Graham Edson, who then gave them to her son David Warner Edson. The Edson family then donated the plates to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives at Penrose Library, where they currently reside. See all item sets with this value
- Source
- Whitman College and Northwest Archives at Penrose Library
- https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv84460?q=Graham,%20David%20Crockett
- References
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7148, David Crockett Graham Papers
- Smithsonian Archives, DC Graham Collection Finding Aid
- The David Crockett Graham Field Book Collection: A Portal for Chinese Culture and Biodiversity
- David Crockett Graham Historical Fund - Non-profit organization devoted to preserving and disseminating the lifetime work of David Crockett and Alicia Morey Graham.
- David Crockett Graham Historical Fund
- Green Forest Sales: Purveyor of books and digital media with primary source material from the life and work of David Crockett Graham.
- Green Forest Sales
- Access Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Items
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Graham House in Walla Walla, WA Small wood sideboard house where David Crockett Graham grew up. In his autobiography, he mentions that his father built this house himself, as he was skilled in all kinds of manual labor including farmwork and carpentry. -
Formal Portrait of David Crockett Graham's Natal Family, 1889 The Graham family sit for a formal portrait in what appears to be a photography studio. Although the photo was labelled 1890, it must be 1889 when the family moved to Walla Walla, and before the tragic deaths in the family. From left to right front row: William Edward Graham, Joseph Clarke Graham, David Crockett Graham, Elizabeth Atchley Graham. Back row: Mary Louisa Graham, Louis Israel Graham. It is not clear why David's closest sister, Elmira, is not in the photo. Within 1888 and 1889, David's mother Elizabeth and his brothers Louis, Mulford and baby Isaac would be dead and the family savings totally depleted.