Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.82-44
- Creators:
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- Dates:
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circa 1896-1897
- Languages:
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- Physical Description:
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- Repository:
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Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs in albums made by Frank Frick documenting architecture, people, agriculture, and scenery in India. Photographs are annotated with descriptions and dates that apparently relate to Frickʹs visits. Some photographs were made by Raja Deen Dayal (also known as Lala Deen Dayal) and Samuel Bourne. The collection also includes one loose photograph of the Budapest Opera House, published by Stengel & Markert in Dresden and possibly photographed by the Calderoni Es Tarsa studio.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
The collector has not been identified wth certainty, but was probably Frank Frick (1828-1910), a merchant from Baltimore, Maryland. Frick was a patron of the arts who, during the last years of his life, traveled in Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Administration
Custodial History note
Donated by Sister Maura Prendergast of Trinity College, 1982.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 82-44, Frank Frick photograph collection relating to India, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional photographs by Raja Deen Dayal can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Addititional photographs of India by Samuel Bourne can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97 and Photo Lot 161.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional photographs of India by Bourne can be found in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives in A2006.02, 1998.07, A2001.5, A1999.8, and A2002.09.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Records of Frank Frick's patronage of the arts in Baltimore can be found in the Archives of American Art in the Peabody Gallery of Art records.
Local Call Number(s)
General note
General note
Information on photographers taken from Clark Worswick, a curator and historian of photography.
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
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