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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Willoughby Wallace Hooper Photograph of Grasscutters in India
Summary
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1998.04
- Creators:
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Hooper, Willoughby Wallace, 1837-1912
- Dates:
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circa 1870-1904
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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1 Printalbumenimage 19 x 31 cm., mounted 40 x 51 cm.
- Repository:
- Container:
- 1
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one item: Albumen print by Col. Willoughby Wallace Hooper, depicting a family of grass cutters in Indian, circa 1870s.
Arrangement
Arrangement
Oversized file folder in one flat box.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Hooper was an English army officer who spent over 40 years in India. Early in his career, he became known for being an avid and accomplished amateur photographer. As a result, in 1862 Hooper was transferred to the 4th Cavalry where he worked almost exclusively on acquiring portraits of the people of Central India. These portraits were undertaken as part of the India Office's efforts to assemble a vast database of visual information and descriptive texts on the complex society of colonial India. This database would eventually be published as a monumental eight-volume catalog entitled "The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan." Hooper was also known for his photographs of the Madras Famine of 1876-1878 and the Third Burmese War.
Administration
Custodial History
Purchase, 1998.
Digital Content
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Preferred Citation
Willoughby Wallace Hooper Photograph of Grasscutters in India, FSA.A1998.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
FSA A1998.04
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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East Indians | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
India | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Albumen prints | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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