The collection consists of photocopies of Wenzel's notes on Sudanese architecture and 35mm slides. The material was produced on a salvage archeological study of doorways and other decorative elements of Nubian houses in the Wadi Halfa District of the Sudan that was scheduled to be flooded by the Aswan High Dam. The work was carried out on expeditions sponsored by the Sudan Unit, University of Khartoum.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Marian Barbara Wenzel was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1932. She earned at BA in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1957 and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1966. Wenzel is best known for her work studying the art and architecture of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned by the University of Khartoum to conduct a salvage archeological study of doorways and other decorative elements of Nubian houses in the Wadi Halfa District of the Sudan. In 1972, she published House Decoration in Nubia based on this research. Wenzel died in 2002.
Related Materials:
The Pitt Rivers Museum holds Wenzel's original notebooks in the Papers of Marian Barbara Wenzel.
Provenance:
Received from Marian Wenzel in 1964. Original materials were returned to Wenzel to be deposited at the University of Khartoum in 1965.
Restrictions:
The Marian Wenzel papers concerning Nubian architecture are open for research.
Access to the Marian Wenzel papers concerning Nubian architecture requires an appointment.
6 Prints (albumen, tipped into album leaves with printed captions on verso)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Prints
Photographs
Albumen prints
Place:
Egypt
Jerusalem
Thebes (Upper Egypt)
Gizeh (Egypt)
Palestine
Date:
1857
Scope and Contents:
6 albumen prints, dated 1857 on the negative and on the album page, of Egyptian antiquities and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. All are from a disassembled copy of Frith's publication, "Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and Described by Francis Frith. in Two Volumes" Photograph titles are: Rock Tombs and Belzoni's Pyramid, Gizeh; The Granite Pylon, Thebes; Colossi and Sphynx at Wady Saboua, Nubia; Façade of the Great Temple at Abou Simbel; Jerusalem, From the Mount of Olives, No. 1; Jerusalem, From the Mount of Olives, No. 2.
Arrangement:
One flat box.
Biographical / Historical:
Francis Frith (1822-1898) was one of the pre-eminent travel photographers of his day, contributing greatly to the popularization of travel photography. He also founded Frith & Co., a specialty printing and publishing firm largely devoted to travel photography in a variety of formats, including souvenir postcards and individual prints of scenic views. By employing a team of photographers to supply images for his inventory and purchasing the rights to interesting photos from other photographers and publishing them under the studio's name, Frith soon amassed the largest collection of its kind, with a catalog than ran to almost 700 pages.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2016.02
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Collection Citation:
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
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.
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
