47 Items (gelatin silver prints mounted on loose pages with wooden covers)
Container:
Box 11, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photograph albums
Place:
China
Beijing (China)
China -- Description and Travel
Date:
undated
1926, 1927
bulk 1923-1934
1923-1927
Scope and Contents note:
"Dorothy and Benjamin March." Wood cover. 6" x 9 ½". 47 photographs, black and white, affixed to pages. Some captioned in Chinese. Depicted: art objects, architecture.
Scope and Contents:
Photographs of Beijing monuments and scenes taken by Benjamin March in the 1920s. Some of the prints appear to be commercial sourced. Also includes an unmounted print of a boat on a river.
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. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Judith March Davis, 1995
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. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Judith March Davis, 1995
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 24.1 x 17.8 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.))
Type:
Archival materials
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Place:
China
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Beijing (China)
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
北京
Date:
1903-1905
Scope and Contents:
From left to right: Lady Yugeng (Louisa Pierson), Princess Der Ling (Deling), unidentified eunuch, Cixi, Rongling. The group is standing before the Fuyinxuan behind Leshoutang on Wanshoushan.
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 24.1 x 17.8 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.))
Type:
Archival materials
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Place:
China
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Beijing (China)
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
颐和园
Paiyunmen, Yihe Yuan
排云门
Date:
1903-1905
Scope and Contents:
From right to left: Empress Longyu, Junsho, Princess Der Ling (Deling), Cixi, Second Chief Eunuch Cui Yugui, Fourth Princess, Yuanda Nainai, Lily, Lady Yugeng (Louisa Pierson), Rongling.
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 12.7 x 10.2 cm.( 5 x 4 in.))
Type:
Archival materials
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Place:
China
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Beijing (China)
北京
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
颐和园
仁寿殿
Date:
1903-1905
Scope and Contents:
A reproduction taken from a print. Left front, Second Chief Eunuch Cui Yugui; Right front, First Chief Eunuch Li Lianying; Left of Cixi; Empress Longyu; far left of Cixi, Jinfei; Right of Cixi, , Fourth Princess (daughter of Prince Qing). The dog in front of Cixi is her favorite, "Sea Otter."
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 24.1 x 17.8 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.))
Type:
Archival materials
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Place:
China
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Beijing (China)
北京
故宫
Zhonghai
中海
中南海
Date:
1903-1905
Scope and Contents:
A reproduction taken from a print. Original is SC-GR-265. From left to right: Three unidentified eunuchs (Possibly Second Chief Eunuch Cui Yigui in center), Yuanda Nainai, Fourth Princess (daughter of Prince Qing), Empress Longyu, unidentified attendant (possibly Third Princess), Cixi, unidentified attendant, unidentified attendant, First Chief Eunuch Li Lianying, Jinfei, Princess Der Ling (Deling), Lily, Junshou, Lady Yugeng (Louisa Pierson), Rongling
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 24.1 x 17.8 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.))
Type:
Archival materials
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Place:
China
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Beijing (China)
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
颐和园
Leshoutang, Yihe Yuan
乐寿堂
Date:
1903-1905
Scope and Contents:
Woman to the right of Cixi (慈禧太后) is Sarah Pike Conger (born c.1843 - ?), wife of Edwin Hurd Conger, American Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Beijing. Young girl is Lily, daughter of the photographer.
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 24.1 x 17.8 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.))
Type:
Archival materials
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Place:
China
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Beijing (China)
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
北京
Date:
1903-1905
Scope and Contents:
From left to right: Lady Yugeng (Louisa Pierson), Princess Der Ling (Deling), unidentified eunuch, Cixi, Rongling. The group is standing before the Fuyinxuan behind Leshoutang on Wanshoushan.
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase
