86 Items (mounted gelatin silver prints with typed captions in a 3-ring binder)
Container:
Box 8, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photograph albums
Place:
China
Beijing (China)
China -- Description and Travel
Date:
1926
1924-1926, undated
bulk 1926-1926
1924-1926
Scope and Contents note:
"1926". 86 prints, black and white, affixed to pages. Removed from photo album, album retained, original pagination maintained. Depicted: Rowe family; Hsiang Shan; Pi-yun Sgu; Pai-chia T'an; Mou Shih K'Ou; Liang Ke Chuang; Yuan-ming Yuan; the Great Wall of China; Kuan Ti shrine; Ta-chueh Ssu; Heil-lung T'ang; Peking; Jade Fountain Park.
Scope and Contents:
Photographs taken by Benjamin March in and around Beijing between 1924 and 1926.
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
