From Album to Archive: Context, Meaning, and Two Photographic Albums from an India Mission
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Abstract
This article compares two nineteenth-century photographic albums: one compiled by Miss Amanda Jefferson that is now held in a private collection, and the other produced by Sir William James Wanless that is housed in a public archive. Both Jefferson and Wanless served as missionaries to Western India for the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Jefferson intended her album for public circulation and it mainly depicts the local people, compound, and women’ s domain. In his album, Wanless forwards the infrastructure and civilizing efforts of their work although his is a private album intended as an aide-memoire . These albums exist in silent contrast to one another, each dependent on, yet obscured by, the apparent coherence and exclusivity of the other. Reading these albums together, however, can illuminate the shadows cast by each, the gaps, silences, and exclusions that result from shifting these objects between public and private spaces, both within their time and in ours. RESUME Ce texte compare deux albums de photographies du dix-neuvieme siecle : le premier a ete rassemble par Mlle Amanda Jefferson et il se trouve maintenant dans une collection privee; le second a ete produit par Sir William James Wanless et il est conserve dans un centre d’archives publiques. Jef ferson et Wanless ont tous les deux servi l’Eglise presbyterienne des Etats-Unis comme missionnaires aux Indes occidentales. Jefferson s’etait proposee de creer un album a dif fusion publique qui montre surtout les populations locales, les habitations et le domaine des femmes. Dans son album, Wanless fait etat de l’infrastructure et des ef forts « civilisateurs » de son travail, meme si son album etait personnel et destine a servir d’aide-memoire. Ces deux albums existent en contraste l’un de l’autre, chacun ayant besoin de la coherence apparente et de l’exclusivite de l’autre, tout en etant eclipse en meme temps par lui. La lecture des deux albums de facon parallele, cependant, peut servir a combler les vides, les silences et les omissions qui se produisent lorsque nous deplacons ces objets d’un espace a l’autre (soit l’espace personnel ou public), tant a leur epoque qu’a la notre.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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