Includes photographs of objects, painted artworks, and negatives. Additionally, images of objects printed on postcards are present. Images of paintings depict battles, scenes from stories, and animals. Several mounted photographs have handwritten notes on them about the image.
Arrangement:
Titles of labeled object photograph folders were established by the creator and arranged alphabetically by their label. Loose or otherwise ungrouped photographs have been described as Assorted.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the National Museum of Asian Art's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
Collection Citation:
Mehmet Aga-Oglu Papers. FSA.A.10. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Dr. Kamer Aga-Oglu, 1959.
Sponsor:
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).