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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Elizabeth Ridout Collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.01
- Creators:
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Ridout, Elizabeth
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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1 AlbumAccordion 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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Citation
Elizabeth Ridout Collection, FSA.A2010.01. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Elizabeth Ridout, 2010.
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
FSA A2010.01
Keywords
Repository Contact
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Washington, D.C. 20013
AVRreference@si.edu
