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Creator:

Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942  Search this

Names:

Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942  Search this

Tung, Kuang-zung.  Search this

Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)  Search this

Wenley, A. G. (Archibald Gibson), 1898-1962  Search this

Collection Creator:

Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Manuscripts

Place:

China

Date:

1915-1933

Scope and Contents:

This series contains Bishop's unpublished typed manuscript entitled Archaeological Research in China 1923-1934—Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, [n.d.] 2v. : some ill.; 27cm., a field report that chronicled the two Gallery-sponsored expeditions; various drafts and research notes in Box 2, which are organized according to their original order from their envelopes and notecards based on subject.

The papers concern Bishop's Gallery-sponsored travels to China, 1923 to 1927 and from 1929-1934, while acting as Associate Curator at the Freer Gallery of Art. The collection includes a large collection of still prints and maps.The earliest still photographic prints in the Bishop Papers date from his employ at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where he conducted archaeological reconnaissance from 1915 to 1918 in China, Korea, and Japan. All subsequent images were created or collected by Bishop and his assistant Kwang-zung Tung during the Freer Gallery-sponsored expeditions of 1923-1934. This selection of digitized prints showcase prints which are not reflected in the Bishop manuscript or the photograph books. These selected images include place views of various excavations that featured prominently in the Bishop manuscript as well as the writings of A.G. Wenley and Dr Li Chi, who accompanied Bishop during his archaeological excavations in China. These include place views of Shansi, Shensi, Hsi-yin-Ts'un, Yu Ho Chen, Yun Kang and Peitaiho. In addition, images from Bishop's photographs of Mongolia, Manchuria and Nanjing, which are focused less on the excavation activities and depict more of the social and physical landscape of the areas Bishop visited, were chosen to reflect the comprehensive nature of Bishop's still print collection.

This series contains Bishop's unpublished typed manuscript entitled Archaeological Research in China 1923-1934. it is a field report that chronicled the two Freer Sackler Gallery sponsored expeditions. There are various drafts and research notes in box two.

Carl Whiting Bishop, Series 1: Manuscript and Research Material

Biographical / Historical:

Carl Whiting Bishop was an Associate Curator and Associate in Archaeology at the Freer Gallery of Art from 1922 to 1942.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.02 1

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Archaeological expeditions  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

Manuscripts

Collection Citation:

The Carl Whiting Bishop Collection. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Identifier:

FSA.A.02, Series 1

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

131 Linear feet (29 architectural drawings)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diaries

Financial records

Correspondence

Photographs

Place:

China

Syria

Egypt

India

London (England)

Japan

Boston (Mass.)

Detroit (Mich.)

Washington (D.C.)

Kandy (Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka

Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)

Date:

1876-1931

Summary:

The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs.

Scope Content:

The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, financial material, architectural drawings, and photographs.

Correspondence, circa 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; letterpress books contain copies of Freer's outgoing letters, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler's mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer's letters from his associates, and regarding the settlement of his estate.

Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910. Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art.

Correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenollosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society.

Organization of the Papers:

This collection is organized into twelve series.

Series 1: Genealogical and Biographical Data

Series 2: Correspondence

Series 3: Diaries

Series 4: Freer Colleague Materials

Series 5: Art Inventories

Series 6: Financial Materials

Series 7: Exhibition Loan Files

Series 8: Biblical Manuscripts and Gold Treasure Files

Series 9: American School of Archaeology in China

Series 10: Printed Material

Series 11: Outsize Material

Series 12: Photographs

Biographical Note:

1854 February 25 -- Born in Kingston, New York

1873 -- Appointed accountant and paymaster of New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad by Frank J. Hecker (1846-1927)

1876 -- Moves to Indiana to work, with Hecker, for the Detroit and Eel River and Illinois Railroad

1880 -- Moves to Detroit, participates in organization of the Peninsular Car Works with Hecker

1883 -- Becomes vice president and secretary of Peninsular Car Company when it succeeds Peninsular Car Works

1883 -- Begins collecting European prints

1884 -- Peninsular Car Company constructs plant on Ferry Avenue

1887 -- Meets Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)

1887 -- Acquires proofs of 26 etchings, Venice, Second Series(1886), by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

1887 -- Purchases a small Japanese fan attributed to Ogata Karin(1658-1715)

1887 -- Buys land on Ferry Avenue

1889 -- Meets Frederick Stuart Church (1826-1900) and Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) in New York

1890 -- Commissions Wilson Eyre (1858-1944) to design house on Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

1890 -- On first trip to London, meets James McNeill Whistler(1834-1903)

1892 -- Moves to Ferry Avenue house

1892 -- Tryon and Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) undertake decoration of reception rooms

1893 -- Lends American paintings to World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

1893 -- Purchases first piece of Chinese art, a small painting of white herons by an anonymous Ming dynasty (1368-1644) artist

1894 -- Begins yearlong trip around the world, which includes visit to the Whistlers in Paris and first trip to Asia, stopping in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, China, and Japan

1896 -- Meets Matsuki Bunkyo (1867-1940) in Boston

1899 -- Takes part in consolidation of railroad-car building companies then retires from active business

1900 -- Attends Exposition International Universelle in Paris

1900 -- Buys villa in Capri with Thomas S. Jerome

1901 -- Meets Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) in Paris and Ernest Fenollosa(1853-1908), who visits Freer in Detroit

1902 -- Meets Dikran Kelekian (1868-1951)

1902 -- Spends summer in Britain building Whistler collection

1902 -- Views Whistler's, Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room

1904 -- Purchases Whistler's Peacock Room

1904 -- Offers his art collections and funds to build a museum in which to house them to the Smithsonian Institution

1905 -- Smithsonian committee visits Freer in Detroit

1906 -- United States government formally accepts Freer's gift on January 24

1906 -- Freer signs Deed of Gift to Smithsonian Institution on May 5

1907 -- On second tour of Asia, meets Hara Tomitaro 1868-1939) in Yokohama, Japan

1908 -- Takes third trip to Asia, specifically to West Asia to study Rakka ware

1909 -- Tours Europe to study art museums

1909 -- On fourth trip to Asia, attends memorial ceremony for Fenollosa (d.1908 September) at Miidera, Japan, and meets Duanfang (1861-1911) in China

1910 -- On last trip to Asia, visits Longmen Buddhist caves in China

1911 -- Suffers stroke

1912 -- Lends selection of objects for exhibition at Smithsonian Institution

1913 -- Meets Eugene (1875-1957) and Agnes E. (1887-1970) Meyer

1913 -- Commissions Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) to design museum building in Washington

1914 -- Meets Katharine Nash Rhoades (1885-1965) in Detroit

1915 -- Settles in New York City

1915 -- Site of future Freer Gallery of Art is determined

1916 -- Platt's plans for Freer Gallery are approved by Smithsonian Regents and Commission of Fine Arts and ground is broken in September

1918 -- After falling ill in Detroit, Freer travels to New York for treatment

1918 -- Work on the museum building is delayed by the war

1919 -- Freer appends codicil to will permitting acquisitions of Asian, Egyptian, and Near Eastern (West Asian) art

1919 -- Dies in New York City on 25 September and is buried in Kingston, New York

1919 -- Construction of Freer Gallery completed

1920 -- John Ellerton Lodge (1876-1942) is appointed director of the Freer Gallery

1923 -- Freer Gallery opens to the public on May 9

1930 -- Memorial ceremony for Freer is held at Koetsuji, Kyoto

Charles Lang Freer was an American industrialist who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. He was a well-known collector of Asian art, and strongly supported the synthesis of Eastern art and Western art. One of his most famous acquisitions was James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room.

Index:

Index to cross-referenced correspondents in the series Charles Lang Freer correspondence

Beal, Junius E. -- See: -- Warring, Joseph Stephens

Black, George M. -- See: -- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Board of Education (Kingston, New York) See: Michael, M. J.

Bonner, Campbell See: University of Michigan

Boughton, George H. See: Yardley, F. C.

British Museum See: Binyon, Laurence; Hobson, R. L.

Brown, Harold H. See: Art Association of Indianapolis

Buchner, Evelyn B. See: Knoedler, M., and Company

Buckholder, C. H. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Butler, S. B. See: Unidentified correspondents

Carnegie Institute See: Balken, Edward Duff; Harshe, Robert B.

Carpenter, Newton H. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Caulkins, Horace James See: Pewabic Pottery

Chao, Shih-chin See: Gunn, Chu Su

Chicago & North Western Railway Co. See: Hughett, Marvin

Clark, Charles Upson See: Clark, Arthur B.

Cleveland Museum of Art See: Whiting, Frederic Allen

Columbia University See: Braun, W. A.; Gottheil, Richard; Hirth, Friederich

Commission of Fine Arts See: Moore, Charles

Corcoran Gallery of Art See: Minnigerode, C. Powell

Crocker, Anna B. See: Portland Art Association

Dannenberg, D. E. See: Karlbeck, Orvar

De Menoncal, Beatrice See: Lien, Hui Ch'ing Collection

De Ricci, Seymour See: Ricci, Seymour de

Defnet, William A., Mrs., See: Franke, Ida M.

DeMotte See: Vigouroux, J.

Detroit Institute of Arts See: Detroit Museum of Art

Detroit Publishing Company See: Livingstone, W. A.

Detroit School of Design See: George Hamilton; Stevens, Henry

DeVinne Press See: Peters, Samuel T.; Witherspoon, A. S.

Dyrenforth, P. C. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Eddy, Arthur J. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Eggers, George Williams See: Art Institute of Chicago

Farr, Daniel H. See: Robinson and Farr

Farrand School (Detroit) See: Yendall, Edith

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) See: Laufer, Berthold

Flagg, Frederick J. See: Allen, Horace N.

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University See: Forbes, Edward; Pope, Arthur Upham; Sachs, Paul J.

French, M. R. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Fu, Lan-ya See: Pang, Lai-ch'en

Fujii, Yoshio See: Yoshio, Fujii

Gerrity, Thomas See: Knoedler, M., and Company

Goupil Gallery See: Marchant, William

Gray, William J. See: Barr, Eva

Great Lakes Engineering Works See: Hoyt, H. W.

Grolier Club See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Heinemann, W. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Holden, Edward S. See: West Point, U. S. Military Academy

Hudson, J. L. See: Weber, William C.

Hutchins, Harry B. See: University of Michigan

Hutchins, Charles L. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Kelekian, H. G. See: Kelekian, Dikran G.

Kent, H. W. See: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee, Kee Son See: Li, Chi-ch'un

Levy, John See: Schneider, A. K.

Library of Congress See: Rice, Richard A.; Wright, Helen

Louvre (Paris, France) See: Midgeon, Gaston

Matsuki, Z. See: Matsuki, Kihachiro

McKim, Mead and White See: White, Stanford

Mills, A. L., Colonel See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Miner, Luella See: Lien, Hui Ch'ing Collection

Minneapolis Institute of Arts See: Breck, Joseph; Van Derlip, John R.

Monif, R. Khan See: Rathbun, Richard

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston See: Lodge, John Ellerton

Naser, Katen & Nahass See: Katen, K.

Nordlinger, Marie, Miss See: Meyer-Riefstahl, Marie

Panama Pacific International Exposition See: Moore, Charles C.; Trask, John E. D.

Peabody Museum See: Morse, Edward Sylvester

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts See: Trask, John E. D.

Perry, Mary Chase, Miss., See: Pewabic Pottery

Philip, Ronald M. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Pope, G. D. See: Barr, Eva

Reinhart, A. G. See: Gottschalk, E.

Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch See: Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien

Rutgers College See: Van Dyke, John C.

Saint-Gaudens, Augusta H. See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Saint-Gaudens, Homer See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Samurai Shokai See: Nomura, Yozo

San Francisco Art Association See: Laurvik, J. Nilsen

Scribner's, Charles, Sons See: Van Dyke, John C.

Shaw, Wilfred B. See: University of Michigan

Shirae, S. Z. See: Yamanaka and Company

Smith College See: Clark, Arthur B.

Smithsonian Institution See: Holmes, William Henry; Rathbun, Richard; Ravenel, Walcott, Charles D.

Society of Arts and Crafts (Detroit) See: Plumb, Helen

Societe des Beaux-Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Stevens, George W. See: Toledo Museum of Art

Stratton, Mary Chase Perry See: Pewabic Pottery

Tanaka, Kichijiro See: Yamanaka and Company

Tuttle, William F. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Union Trust Company (Detroit) See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

United States Military Academy See: West Point, U. S. Military Academy

University of Chicago See: Zug, George Breed

University of Pennsylvania, Univ. Mus. See: Gordon, George Bryon

Ushikubo, D. J. R. See: Yamanaka and Company

Wallis & Son See: Barr, Eva; Thompson, C. Croal Ward, Clarence See: Oberlin College

Warren, Edward K. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Warring, Stephen See: Warring, Joseph Stephens

Watkin, Williams R. T. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Watson, Margaret, Miss See: Parker, Margaret Watson

Whistler, Anna See: Stanton, Anna Whistler

Whiting, Almon C. See: Toledo Museum of Art

Williams College See: Rice, Richard A

Wright, F. G. See: Orbach and Company

Yatsuhashi, H. See: Yamanaka and Company

Index to cross-referenced correspondence in the series Whistler correspondence

Bell, William See: Unidentified correspondents

Brown, Ernest See: Painter Etchers' Society, Committee

Cowen, John T. See subseries: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Ford, Sheridan See: Reid, Alexander

Haden, Francis Seymour See: Painter Etchers' Society, Committee

Haden, Francis Seymour, Lady See: Haden, Deborah Whistler

Leighton, Frederick, Baron See: Campbell, Lady Colin

Moore, Albert See: Reid, Alexander

Morley, Charles See: Pall Mall Gazette

Morris, Harrison S. See: Reid, Alexander

Pennell, Joseph See: Miscellaneous typescripts

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Prange, F. G. See: Reid, Alexander

Societe des Beaux-Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Society of Portrait Painters See: Reid, Alexander

Stevens Fine Art See: Reid, Alexander

Studd, Arthur See: Miscellaneous typescripts

[Vanderbilt?], George, Mrs. See: George, Mrs.

Whistler, William McNeill, Mrs. See: Whistler, Nellie

Whistler Memorial Committee See: Miscellaneous typescripts

Related Material:

The Archives of American Art microfilmed portions of the Freer papers in 1992. The microfilm is available at the Archives of American Art's Washington D.C. office, the Freer Gallery of Art Library, and through interlibrary loan.

Provenance:

Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Architecture -- Asia  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Financial records

Correspondence

Photographs

Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs of Whistler's Peacock Room, portraits, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Subseries 12.2

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Creator:

Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

196 Pages (19.5 x 13 cm.)

Container:

Box 56, Folder 2

Type:

Archival materials

Pages

Notebooks

Place:

USA -- Michigan -- Detroit

Date:

November 4-11, 1907

Scope and Contents:

One journal-style volume, quarter-bound black pebble-grained cloth with brown marbled paper boards. Approximately 200 pages, mostly filled with handwritten notes. Paper onlay on the front cover bears the handwritten inscription "Notes taken before Mr. Freer's collection in Detroit -- some amount is [?] -- mostly [?] lantern slides." Inside front cover has the bookplate of Ernest K. Fenollosa; the bookplate also bears the ink signature "Mary McNeil Fenollosa (Sidney McCall)" and the ink stamp of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Loosely inserted at the beginning of the journal is an undated receipt for the purchase of several items from the Walpole Galleries in New York City.

The first part of the journal, dated November 1907, contains approximately 104 pages of notes, presumably written in Fenollosa's hand. On the back cover, another paper slip bears the inscription "This end of the note book to be used for a list of Illustrations from Stokes' prints to be sent Mr. Heinemann -- begun March 16th 1911." From this point, a new set of notes begins, written after Fenollosa's death and consisting of approximately 34 pages.

Notes taken before Mr. Freer's collection in Detroit

Arrangement:

Organized in one flat box.

Biographical / Historical:

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908) was a poet and student of Asian art. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fenollosa studied at Harvard, Cambridge University and the art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before traveling to Japan to teach political economy and philosophy at the Imperial University at Tokyo. In 1988, he helped establish the Tokyo Fine Arts Academy and the Imperial Museum, serving as its director. For his many efforts to preserve temples and shrines and their art work, the Emperor of Japan decorated him with the orders of the Rising Sun and the Sacred Mirror. In 1890 Fenollosa returned to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to take the position of curator of the department of Oriental arts. However, his public divorce and immediate remarriage in 1895 to the writer Mary McNeill Scott (1865-1954) led to his dismissal from the Museum in 1896 and he returned to Japan to teach English literature at the Tokyo Higher Normal School. He returned to the United States in 1900 to write and lecture on Asia. His works include East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems (1893); Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (2d ed. 1912), compiled by his widow, Mary McNeil Fenollosa; and two works on Japanese drama (ed. by Ezra Pound, 1916).

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 04.02

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, Asian  Search this

Art -- Private collections  Search this

Genre/Form:

Notebooks

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 04.02

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 4: Freer Colleague Materials / 4.1: Ernest Fenollosa Materials

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Creator:

Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

14 Gelatin silver prints

Container:

Box 299

Type:

Archival materials

Gelatin silver prints

Photographs

Place:

China

Shaanxi Sheng (China)

Date:

circa 1903-1904

Scope and Contents:

14 photographic prints of locations in China, taken by the Geologist Bailey Willis in 1903-1904 during a Carnegie institution funded geological expedition through China. Scenes include pagodas at Wutaishan and Tang dynasty Nestorian monuments outside of Xi'an. Documentation is sparse, but the photographs appear to have been sent to Charles L. Freer by Willis in November of 1908. At the time, Freer was considering purchase of a modern replica of the Nestorian Stele. His examination of Willis' original photograph of the stele confirmed that the replica was not worth acquisition.

大秦景教流行中國碑

Photographs of China by Bailey Willis

Biographical / Historical:

Bailey Willis (1857-1949) was a geological engineer who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey. He was born in New York and studied at Columbia University. Willis surveyed regions of Appalachia and the Northwestern U.S. He visited Mt. Rainier in 1882, and later contributed to its designation as a National Park. is publications on the region's geology garnered international attention from scientists. In 1903, he led an expedition funded by the Carnegie Institution to northern China, an area previously unexplored by geologists. In 1949, Willis published his recollections of the expedition in his book "Friendly China."

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 12.05WP

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Antiquities  Search this

Temples -- China  Search this

Buddhism  Search this

Nestorians  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 12.05WP

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.5: China

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

236 Glass plate negatives

Type:

Archival materials

Glass plate negatives

Photographs

Place:

China

Date:

1910-1911

Scope and Contents:

Glass plate negatives taken by Chinese photographer Yü Tai for Charles Lang Freer during his journey to the cave temples of Longmen in Henan Province, and a subsequent trip to Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province between October 1910 and February 1911. Freer spent 2 weeks at Longmen, making extensive notes and photographs of the Buddhist sculptures. Many cave features have been subsequently damaged, destroyed, or pilfered, hence, many of the photographs are unique documents of earlier states. Other Henan Province locations depicted include Kaifeng, Gongxian, and Luoyang; Sites and monuments include the Iron Pagoda in Kaifeng; the Gongxian Buddhist cave temples, and Song Dynasty Imperial Tombs. Hangzhou sites include West Lake; Leifeng Pagoda; Lingyin Temple; Feilaifeng, and the tomb of Yue Fei. A small number of negatives appear to be copies from books or prints.

鞏縣 杭州 龙门 洛阳 开封

Arrangement:

The negatives have been given individual numbers that roughly correspond chronologically to Freer's travels.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 12.05.GN

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Antiquities  Search this

Temples -- China  Search this

Buddhism  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Glass plate negatives

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 12.05.GN

See more items in:

Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.5: China

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref3164

Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (typed, with handwritten edits)

Type:

Archival materials

Inventories

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Comprehensive index of Charles Lang Freer's library, mostly relating to art and Asian culture. Headings include authors, countries, and topical subjects. Sections include locations in Freer's original Detroit home; an index of all books transferred to the Smithsonian; a list of collections and collectors catalogues of American and Near and Far Eastern art; sales catalogues, and books in Chinese language.

Arrangement:

Organized in the original manner by the creator.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 05.22

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

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Topic:

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Book collecting  Search this

Function:

Libraries

Genre/Form:

Inventories

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 05.22

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 5: Art Inventories / 5.22: Printed Books [Library]

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Kurkdjian Studio  Search this

Collector:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

60 Items (collodion prints)

Type:

Archival materials

Albums

Photographs

Photographic prints

Place:

Borobudur (Indonesia)

Java (Indonesia)

Prambanan (Java)

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Album of 60 photographic prints illustrating architecture and sculptural features of the 9th century Buddhist monument at Borobudur, Mendut, Pawon, Prambanan, and other ancient sites of Central Java.

Arrangement:

Organized in the original manner by the creator.

Biographical / Historical:

Ohannes Kurkdjian 1851 - 1903 was an Armenian photographer active in Indonesia at the turn of the century. His company, O. Kurkdjian & Co. was a major studio in Surabaya producing scenic views as well as studio portraits. The studio continued well after Kurkdjian's death in 1903.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 12.08.1

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

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Topic:

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Genre/Form:

Albums

Photographs

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.08.1

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.8: Album of Photographs of Borobudur collected by Charles Freer

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Yue, Seaouke  Search this

Names:

Pang Yuanji, 1864-1949  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (folders of correspondence)

Container:

Box 36, Folder 17-22

Type:

Archival materials

Letters (correspondence)

Date:

1917-1919

Scope and Contents:

Letters dated between 1917 and 1919, mostly discussing the offer of Chinese art objects by the Shanghai based dealer Seaouke Yue (You Xiaoxi)

游篠溪

Freer collection numbers: F1904.61

Letters between Charles Lang Freer and Seaouke Yue (You Xiaoxi)

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically under correspondent.

Biographical / Historical:

Charels Lang Freer first met Yue in 1917. Yue had travelled to New York with items from the collection of Pang Yuanji, an important Shanghai collector who met Freer in 1911. Over the next two years, Freer purchased a number of important works of Chinese painting, jades, pottery and bronzes from Yue.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 02.1Yue

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

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Topic:

Art, Chinese  Search this

Genre/Form:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Yue

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Container:

Box 6, Flat-file 5

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

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Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 1: Genealogical and Biographical Data / 1.7: Freer Memorial Materials / 1.7.1: Kyoto Memorial and Ceremony

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref2452

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Container:

Box 6, Folder 7

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 1: Genealogical and Biographical Data / 1.7: Freer Memorial Materials / 1.7.1: Kyoto Memorial and Ceremony

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

283 Pages

Type:

Archival materials

Pages

Letters (correspondence)

Place:

Sri Lanka

Singapore

Indonesia

Egypt

Syria

Japan

Paris (France)

London (England)

Date:

1904-1908

Scope and Contents:

Letters written by Charles Lang Freer to his friend and business associate Frank Hecker (1846-1927) during multiple trips to Europe and Asia between 1904 and July of 1908. After a decade absence, Freer travelled again to Asia, taking extended tours of Egypt, Syria, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Japan. Also included are letters written from Detroit that describe the status of Freer's offer of his collection to the Smithsonian.

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel4

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Travel  Search this

Genre/Form:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel4

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Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence / Hecker, Frank J., Col., 1892-1917

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

283 Pages

Type:

Archival materials

Pages

Letters (correspondence)

Place:

Egypt

Japan

Paris (France)

London (England)

Berlin (Germany)

Cairo (Egypt)

Beijing (China)

Kyoto (Japan)

Shanghai (China)

Date:

1909

Scope and Contents:

Letters written by Charles Lang Freer to his friend and business associate Frank Hecker (1846-1927) during an extended trip to Europe and Asia from April to December1909. Freer's travel destitanations included Paris, London, Berlin, Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai, Kyoto and Tokyo.

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel5

Issuing Body Note:

横浜 東京 京都 北京 上海

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

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Topic:

Travel  Search this

Genre/Form:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel5

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Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence / Hecker, Frank J., Col., 1892-1917

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Pang Yuanji, 1864-1949  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

12 Items (letters including envelopes and business card)

Container:

Box 25, Folder 15

Type:

Archival materials

Letters (correspondence)

Date:

1912

1912-1919

Scope and Contents:

Letters dated between 1912 and 1919, discussing Chinese political conditions and the Chinese art market. Pang also introduces Freer to the dealer You Xiaoxi (Yue Seaouke) who frequently acted as intermediary.

庞元济 游篠溪 庞莱臣 弗利尔

Freer collection numbers: F1904.61

Letters between Charles Lang Freer and Pang Yuanji

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically under correspondent.

Biographical / Historical:

Charles Lang Freer first visited the Shanghai collector and connoisseur Pang Yuanji in 1911. In subsequent years, Freer purchased some of his finest early Chinese paintings from Pang through intermediary dealers traveling in the US.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 02.1PangYuanchi

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

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Topic:

Art, Chinese  Search this

Genre/Form:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1PangYuanchi

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Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Collector:

Hamilton, Russell, d. 1911  Search this

Extent:

193 Items (postcards and photographs, black and white and color)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Postcards

Photographs

Place:

China -- Description and Travel

Egypt -- description and travel

Hong Kong -- Description and Travel

India -- description and travel

Japan -- Description and Travel

Kuwait

Oman

Somalia

Sri Lanka -- 1890-1920

Yemen

Date:

circa 1895-1909

Scope and Contents:

Assembled by English petty officer Russell Hamilton (d. 1911) during his voyages made prior to 1909, likely for the British Merchant Marines, documenting images of China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. The items date from between the late 1890's and 1909.The 183 photographic postcards are both black and white and hand-tinted with many captions in English created for Western audiences They were produced by various publishers, among whom Clifton & Co. The 10 silver prints depict people in daily activities, culture groups, street scenes, city views, architectural monuments and landscapes.

Arrangement:

The postcards are organized by geographic location.

Local Numbers:

FSA A2001.13

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form:

Postcards

Photographs

Identifier:

FSA.A2001.13

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Lévy Fils et Cie.  Search this

Extent:

1 Postcard (col., 14 x 9 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Postcards

Picture postcards

Place:

Africa

Egypt

Date:

ca. 1910

Scope and Contents:

Original caption reads, "EGYPTIAN TYPES AND SCENES. - Women Bringing Water from the Nile." On verso, "SCÈNES ET TYPES D'ÉGYPTE. Porteuses d'Eau au Bord du Nil." Translated text reads, "Egyptian types and scenes. - Women bringing water from the Nile." (One stamp verso). Translated message reads, "Shepherd's Hotel. Feb 23, 1912. Dear Aunt Carrie, We arrived here safely on Friday, are enjoying this fascinating city. Have had some fine times along the Nile. Today visited The Great Pyramid at Ghizeh built by Cheops BC 3733. From there we rode a donkey to view the Sphinx, ... a wonderful and impressive monument. We are all well mother & further rode in a sand cart."

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.

Collection Rights:

Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Topic:

Portrait photography -- Africa  Search this

Children  Search this

Genre/Form:

Picture postcards

Identifier:

EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-011719

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Stephen Grant postcards

Archival Repository:

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Lévy Fils et Cie.  Search this

Extent:

1 Postcard (col., 14 x 9 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Postcards

Picture postcards

Place:

Africa

Egypt

Date:

ca. 1910

Scope and Contents:

Original caption reads, "EGYPTIAN TYPES AND SCENES. - Women Bringing Water from the Nile." On verso, "SCÈNES ET TYPES D'ÉGYPTE. Porteuses d'Eau au Bord du Nil." Translated text reads, "Egyptian types and scenes. - Women bringing water from the Nile." Translated message reads, "Shepherd's Hotel. Feb 23 1912. Dear Aunt Carrie. We arrived here safely on Friday, are enjoying this most interesting and fascinating city. Have had some fine times along the Nile. Today visited The Great Pyramid at Ghizeh built by Cheops BC 3733. From there we rode on a donkey to view the Sphinx, . . . a wonderful and impressive monument. We are all well mother & further rode in a sand cart."

Collection Restrictions:

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Collection Rights:

Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Topic:

Portrait photography -- Africa  Search this

Children  Search this

Genre/Form:

Picture postcards

Identifier:

EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-011719

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Stephen Grant postcards

Archival Repository:

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Desaix, E.  Search this

Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale  Search this

Collection Collector:

National Museum of African Art (U.S.)  Search this

Extent:

1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)

Container:

Volume 1

Type:

Archival materials

Postcards

Postcards

Picture postcards

Place:

Africa

Congo (Democratic Republic)

Belgium

Belgium -- Flemish Region -- Tervuren -- Royal Museum for Central Africa

Date:

ca. 1915

Scope and Contents:

Printed text on recto reads: "Tervueren. Palais du Musée du Congo. / 3. Le Palais du Musée du Congo est la reproduction du Petit Palais des champs Elysées à Paris, œuvre de l'architecte français Girault. Commencé sous Léopold II dont le monogramme se trouve entre les colonnes, il fut inauguré par le roi Albert en 1910. La façade de style classique s'harmonise bien avec les jardins français qui entourent le palais."

Translated postcard caption reads: "Tervuren. Palace of the Congo Museum. / The Palace of the Congo Museum is a reproduction of the Petit Palais at the Champs de l'Eysées in Paris, designed by the french architect Giralut. Began under Leopold II whose monogram is found between the columns, it was inaugurated by King Albert in 1910. The classical facade harmonizes well with the french gardens which surround the palace."

Printed text on verso reads: "Phototypie Modern / Telephone B 780 / Albums, Catalogues et Travaux Industriels en Tous Genres / Cartes Postales Illustrées / E. Desaix / Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10, Bruxulles. / La Belgique Historique / Collection Artistique / Des Monuments et Sites Belges / Approuvées par le Ministère des Sciences et des Arts et par les Conseils de Perfectionnement de l'Enseignement Primaire et de l'Enseignement Moyen."

Address on verso, composed of stamped text ammended with manuscript: "A. Pyllyser-Cortier / 341 rue de Merode / Bruxelles."

General:

Title source: Postcard caption.

Exhibitions Note:

National Museum of African Art: "Treasures from Tervuren: Selections from the Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa," organized by Tribal Arts, Basel; 25 June 1997 through 19 October 1997.

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Collection Rights:

Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Topic:

Museum exhibits  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Genre/Form:

Picture postcards

Collection Citation:

African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA BE 1997-024-0010

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African Postcard Collection / Series 51: Non-Africa / 51.3: Other

Archival Repository:

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

EDAN-URL:

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Collection Collector:

National Museum of African Art (U.S.)  Search this

Extent:

1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Postcards

Picture postcards

Place:

Africa

Date:

[ca. 1908]

Scope and Contents:

Photographed by Edmond Fortier and published by Collection générale Fortier, Dakar.

Original caption reads, "Afrique Occidentale - Dahomey - Saket́e ́- Monument Henri Cait et Leon Cadeau, tueś en 1905 (26-27 fev́rier)." Translated original caption reads, "Western Coast of Africa - Dahomey - Sakete - Henri Cait and Leon cadeau Memorial, killed in 1905 (February 26-27)."

Local Numbers:

Fortier 3050

General:

Title source: Translated from postcard caption.

Image indexed by negative number.

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Collection Rights:

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Topic:

Armed Forces  Search this

Genre/Form:

Picture postcards

Collection Citation:

African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA F3050

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African Postcard Collection / Series 49: Fortier postcard collection

Archival Repository:

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

V. B. Cumbo (Gibraltar)  Search this

Collection Collector:

National Museum of African Art (U.S.)  Search this

Extent:

1 Postcard (halftone., col., 9 x 14 cm.)

Container:

Volume 1

Type:

Archival materials

Postcards

Postcards

Picture postcards

Place:

Africa

Gibraltar

Gibraltar, -- Gibraltar

Date:

circa 1920

Scope and Contents:

Printed caption on recto reads: "Gibraltar. The Monument of the Duke of Wellington."

Printed text on verso reads: "V. B. Cumbo, Gibraltar." Item number on verso reads: "73474."

Local Numbers:

EEPA GI-03-01

General:

Title source: Postcard caption.

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.

Collection Rights:

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Topic:

Works of art in situ  Search this

Monuments  Search this

Genre/Form:

Picture postcards

Collection Citation:

African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA GI 2012-001-0799

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African Postcard Collection

African Postcard Collection / Series 51: Non-Africa / 51.1: Gibraltar (GI)

Archival Repository:

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

EDAN-URL:

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