Three Roads to Urga [typescript]
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circa 1920s
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1 Item (75 pages of typescript)
79 Items (silver prints, black and white)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1996.02
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Detailed account recalling travel to and in Outer Mongolia along three routes that led to Urga (now Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), with descriptions of the travel conditions, modes of transportation, trade practices, the Russian, Mongolian, and Chinese people of the region, an encounter with the "Andrews expedition" (likely the Central Asiatic Expedition ...
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Bonfils, Félix, 1831-1885
Bonfils, Lydie, 1837-1918
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undated
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15 Prints (albumen, 22.5 x 28.5 cm sheets.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1997.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Panoramic view in 360 degrees of Constantinople, now Istanbul, Turkey, circa 1870. 10 sheets of albumen print, of which five bear the photographer's signature and number.
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Unknown
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undated
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3 Items (Photographs extent, Hand-painted silver gelatin prints, 8.5 x 6 3/8)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2011.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Three portraits of royal Nepalese women, the daughters of the Rana of Nepal and the Prime MInister (1931-1943) Juddah Samshar Janga Badahar Rana. The photos likely date from the 1910s-1920s. Each is a hand-tinted gelatin silver print mounted on paper.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1880s-1930
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1 gelatin silver print (b&w)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- On recto of the print, faded handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) reads, "751."
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1880s-1930
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1 gelatin silver print (b&w, -- cm. x -- cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- On recto of the print, faded handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) reads, "245."
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Miriam McNair Scott
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undated
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3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2001.09
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
This Collection contains photographs, research notes, lectues, and journal articles.
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Perry, Art, Mr.
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undated
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30 gelatin silver prints (b&w, -- cm. x -- cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2000.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Images taken by Canadian writer and photographer Art Perry to document Tibetans, including those in exile communities in India and Nepal. Mostly depicted are religious figures such as monks and pilgrims in residencse that include Sera Monastery.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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undated
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1 Item (album (120 photoprints))
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.09
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Black leather bound album of 119 albumen prints and one silver gelatin print. Prints are likely produced by the studio of photographer Antoin Sevruguin in the 1870s and 80s in his early career in Iran. Includes handwritten captions in Persian. Many of the prints have an unusually purplish tone.
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Hamilton, Russell, (collector), d. 1911
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circa 1895-1909
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193 Items (postcards and photographs, black and white and color)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2001.13
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Assembled by English petty officer Russell Hamilton (d. 1911) during his voyages made prior to 1909, likely for the British Merchant Marines, documenting images of China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. The items date from between the late 1890's and 1909.The 183 photog...
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Tripe, Linnaeus
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circa 1856-1858
bulk dates
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3 Prints (albumenized salt paper, images 25 x 37 cm. or smaller, mounted 44 x 57 or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2001.10
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
This collection consists of three photographs: I. Albumenized salt print from wet collodion negative, 22 x 28 cm., circa 1858, on original mount, 33 x 45 cm. Depicts a piece of sculpture from the Great Stupa at Amaravati; these sculptures were then known as the Elliot marbles. II. Albumenized salt print from wet collodion negative, 18 x 29 cm., cir...