22 Items (gelatin silver prints with inked captions)
Container:
Box 7, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photograph albums
Place:
China
Date:
1924- 1927
1924-1927
Scope and Contents note:
"When Home Was China." Inscribed with a poem from D.R. [Dorothy Rowe] to B.F.M. [Benjamin March] Cloth covered. 10" x 12". 22 prints, inscribed and most dated and affixed to pages. Depicted: Western tombs of Ch'ing Emperors; Chieh T'ai Ssu; the Great Wall of China; Nankow; Gate of Liukuochiao; Marco Polo Bridge; Pi Yun Ssu; Jade Fountain Park; Wo Fo Ssu; Chihli Village; Dakini; Lohan.
Scope and Contents:
Various large format prints of highlights from March's photographs in China. Also contains a poem by Dorothy Rowe.
East Asian art historian, curator and lecturer, Benjamin Franklin March Jr., was born in Chicago on July 4, 1899 to Benjamin and Isabel March. He studied, lectured, and wrote in the United States and China and through his works gained respect as one of the foremost authorities on Chinese art during the 1920s and 1930s. March was East Asian art lecturer at the University of Michigan, and curator of Asian art at the Detroit Institute of Art. Although he lived only thirty-five years, Benjamin March was a respected and influential scholar of Asian art.
Benjamin March Papers, FSA.A.1995.10. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Judith March Davis, 1995
