Photograph of Ladies of the Beijing Legations
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Unknown
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January 1902
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1 Item (photographic print, Silver gelatin print, 8 x 10.5 in.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.06
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A large print, showing a group of men, women and children standing before a Western-style building. On the back, captioned originally in pencil is "Photograph taken in Front of American Legation Peking China of the ladies and children of the Diplomatic Corps in January 1902 before going to the Audience of the Emperor and Empress Dowager of China." ...
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Unknown
Abdullah Mirza Qajar, 1850-1909
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undated
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1 Item (Album (76 photoprints), b&w)
76 Items (Photographic prints, b&w)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.05
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A family compiled album bound in gold embossed green leather and sold by Au Bon Marche, Paris. Seventy-six informal and studio individual portraits or groups by a variety of photographers from the 1860s to the 1940s or later. Subjects are likely family members, although formal portraits of royalty are also included. Formats range from large cabinet...
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Jacobson, Marcus, 1930-2001
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1986-1988
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4 Letters (hand written)
1 Item (manuscript, hand written)
1 exhibition catalog (includes essays and photographs)
1 Item (exhibition post card, black and white, 11 x 35 cm)
2 Photographs (color, 20 x 25 cm)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2009.05
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
This collection was created and collected by the late Dr. Marcus Jacobson. It consists of materials relating to contemporary Chinese artist Gu Wenda, whom Dr. Jacobson supported in Gu's early days (mid-1980s) by purchasing works and trying to interest fellow US and Canadian academics (Dr. Jacobson was a well-known neuroscientist) in Gu's works. Thi...
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Albin, Edgar A., 1908-
- Dates:
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1954
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1,700 color slides
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.02
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The Edgar A. Albin Slide Collection includes images of architecture and sights of India taken in 1954 by Professor Edgar A. Albin, A Fullbright Scholar. A second set shows notable contemporary Indian artists in their studios, as well as examples of their works.
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Finn, Dallas, 1919-2012
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1975-1990
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5,500 color slides
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
This Collection contains in 24 albums over 5,500 color 35mm slides of Western-style architecture created during Japan's modernization, primarily druing Meiji Period (1868-1912). Taken throughout Japan between 1975-1990 by Dallas Finn, they were research materials in prepration for her book, Meiji Revisited: the Sites of Victorian Japan (New York, W...
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Abdullah Mirza Qajar, 1850-1909
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undated
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2 photograph albums (black and white photographic prints)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.05
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Two albums: Album No. 1 contains 65 nineteenth century albumen photographs of medium size, the largest measuring 16.4 x 23.5 cm. Album No. 2 contains 44 albumen photographs of larger size, the largest measuring 20.9 x 26.6 cm. The photographs appear to be largely of the same vintage, possibly as early as the 1860s, although some may date ten years ...
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Mowry, Eli, 1880-1970
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undated
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151 Photographs (black and white silver gelatin prints)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.04
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
One hundred fifty one photographic prints and postcards, compiled by the family of Eil Mowry during their residence in Pyongyang between 1909 and 1940. Photographs were taken mostly by Eli Mowry and son David Mowry, although a number of the photographs apparently derive from commercial sources. Prints are primarily black and white silver gelatin pr...
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Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
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1831-1979
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73 Items (Letters, written in ink, ball point, graphite, typewriter)
26 Items (Stamps)
3 Items (Photographs)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2009.06
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
This collection is an amalgamation of letters written and recieved by prominent figures in 19th and 20th century American Art. Included in the collection is a significant portion of letters from Abbott Thayer to correspondents from his circle of family, friends and art world figures such as Maria Oakey Dewing and Samuel Coleman.
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Isaacs, Charles
Saché, John Edward, 1824-1882
Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
Kusakabe, Kimbei, 1841-1934
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circa 1850-1900
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73 albumen prints (various sizes.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2002.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
73 albumen photo prints, some mounted, many signed and numbered in the negative and some with hadwritten penciled identifications, various sizes. A small number are hand-tinted. Images depict Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Japan and China. Subjects include portraits, people in daily activities, street scenes, city views, architecture, fauna and gardens, and ...
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- Creators:
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Yuan Xikun
- Dates:
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undated
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1 Painting
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1999.37
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
One painting of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler.