White, J. Claude (John Claude), b. 1853 Search this
Extent:
1 Print (carbon, 10 x 3.5 cm.; mounted 16 x 5 cm.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Panoramas
Photographs
Place:
Tsangpo Valley
Tibet (China)
China
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of one carbon print by John Claude White, depicting a panoramic view of the Tsangpo River (Yarlung Zangbo) Valley, Tibet, circa 1904.
Arrangement:
Organized in one oversized folder.
Biographical / Historical:
John Claude White (1853-1918) was an amateur British photographer who spent his professional life working for the British Raj. From 1883 to 1908, White was stationed in Kathmandu and Sikkim. His famous images of the Himalayas were taken during this period. He accompanied Francis Younghusband on the British expedition to Tibet in 1903-1904 and made a number of landscape photographs during the campaign, including the image in this collection.
Local Numbers:
FSA A1998.06
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Panoramas
Photographs
Identifier:
FSA.A1998.06
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Shōken, Empress, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 1850-1914 Search this
Extent:
616 Items (approximate count)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Mammoth plates
Photographs
Photograph albums
Stereographs
Cartes-de-visite
Photographic prints
Place:
Japan
Japan -- 1890-1900
Kyoto (Japan)
Tokyo (Japan)
Yokohama-shi (Japan)
Date:
1860 - ca. 1900
Scope and Contents:
Assembled by collectors Dr. Henry D. Rosin and Nancy Rosin to document nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century photography of Japan. Includes albumen prints, portions handcolored, some signed and numbered in the negative. Taken by photographers Felice Beato (b. ca. 1825), Baron Raimon von Stillfried (1938-1911), Kusakabe Kimbei (active 1880s), Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904), Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) and unknown photographers to depict architecture, landscapes, formal studio portraits, and daily activities.
Arrangement:
Organized chronologically by the creators.
Biographical / Historical:
Henry and Nancy Rosin were collectors of Japanese photography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Photographic print (Album 1, most hand colored, 28 x 37 cm.)
Container:
Volume 1, Item R293 - R342
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Photograph albums
Place:
Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Local Numbers:
R293 through R342 (Rosin Number).
FSA A1999.35 A1
General:
Rosin album number one contains Rosin numbers 293 through 342. Item level records are available for each print contained in this album.
This album, with covers of lacquer and ivory, was produced by a shop which used photographs by Beato, Von Stillfried, Kimbei, and others, without including their descriptions or numbers. Each photograph is described by a label affixed below the print. The work is almost certainly by A. Farsari, who owned the stock of all of these photographs in the 1880s. Kimbei kept some stock he had purchased from Von Stillfried in his own shop. Confusion and uncertainty regarding attribution of 19th century Japanese photography is well-discussed in published material.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
