The bulk of the collection comprises portraits of American political figures, including Ulysses S. Grant, John Russell Young, and John A. Halderman. The collection also includes a photomechanical reproduction of Hermann Kretzschmer's painting, "Patience," depicting a boy holding yarn for an old woman spinning, with two boys calling from doorway. This print may have hung in John A. Halderman's office or residence during his service as United States minister to Siam (Thailand).
Collector John A. Halderman (1833?-1908) was a lawyer in Kentucky and a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate. In 1880 he was appointed Consul at Bangkok, later Consul-General. In 1883, he was the first U.S. Minister to Siam, where he was decorated as Knight Commander of the Order of the White Elephant, and later Commander of the Royal Order of Cambodia. He resigned in 1885 and returned to Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Photo lot 164, John A. Halderman photograph collection relating to political figures and a Hermann Kretzchmer painting, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Donated by John A. Halderman to the United States National Museum in 1894 (accession 27737). Transferred to the National Anthropological Archivees by the National Museum of American History's Division of Domestic Life, Cultural History, in 1981.
This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 82-3 and Photo Lot 125.
Additional photographs collected by Halderman can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97.
objects donated by Halderman can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 27737.