Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Elizabeth Ridout Collection

Summary

Collection ID:
FSA.A2010.01
Creators:
Ridout, Elizabeth
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
1 Album
Accordion album with 24 albumen prints; 24 postcards
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Items presented to the Archives by collector Elizabeth Candida Ridout (1938-2015). Includes a small Japanese accordion album with brocade covers and 24 hand-tinted albumen photographs, ca. 1880s. One side of the album shows studio constructs and portraits of Japanese women, either alone or in groups posed in daily activities; the other side shows picturesque scenes of Japan, including Yokohama, Nikko, Kobe, Nagasaki and Mt. Fuji. Photographs are uncaptioned. The gift also includes 24 late 19th - early 20th century commercial postcards of Japan, hand-tinted. Four of the postcards are mementos from the trans-Pacific voyage on board the SS Mongolia, part of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.

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Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Citation
Elizabeth Ridout Collection. FSA.A2010.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Elizabeth Ridout, 2010.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
FSA A2010.01


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