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No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Cartes-de-viste (card photographs) (10 x 6.2 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Cartes-de-viste (card photographs)
Photographs
Cartes-de-visite
Portraits
Place:
Asia
Japan
Japan -- Description and Travel
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Biographical / Historical:
Felice Beato was born in Venice around 1825. During his lifetime, he accompanied the British troops in India, recording images of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, and the Franco-British troops in China to cover the end of the Second Opium War in 1859. With his friend Charles Wirgman, Beato opened a photography studio in Yokohama, Japan in the early 1860s, and produced many images of the Japanese and their lifestyle, as interpreted by the Westerners. Selling his studio to Baron von Stillfried in 1877, Beato eventually died in Burma around 1908.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
A Chinese bestiary : strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = Shan hai jing / edited and translated with commentary by Richard E. Strassberg
Title:
A Chinese bestiary : strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seans = 山海經 / cedited and translated with commentary by Richard E. Strassberg
Strange creatures from the guideways thrugh mountains and seas
A Persian embassy to China : being an extract from Zubdatuʼt Tawarikh of Hafiz Abru / translated by K. M. Maitra ; with a new introduction by L. Carrington Goodrich
A botanical pioneer in South West China : experiences and impressions of an Austrian botanist during the First World War / Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti ; English translation, complete and unabridged, with biography of Handel-Mazzetti, by David Winstanley