Jay A. Bisno Collection of Sevruguin Photographs
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1969-1985
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18 albumen prints (b&w)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.15
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Antoin Sevruguin managed and operated one of the most successful commercial photography studios in Tehran in the late 19th century. Born in the 1840s in Iran, Sevruguin's mother returned with her children to her hometown of Tbilisi after his father Vassil, a Russian diplomat in Iran, died in a horse riding accident. Trained as a painter, Sevruguin ...
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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
- Repository:
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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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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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undated
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1 Item (album (99 photoprints), b&w, 31.2 cm. x 41.6 cm. (sheet))
62 albumen prints (b&w, 25 cm. x 20 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2011.03
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A large album of prints by photographer Antoin Sevruguin, likely dating from his early career in Iran in the 1870s and 1880s. The collection also includes a number of loose, unbacked prints, many duplicating the photographs in the album. Roughly half of the mounted prints have English handwritten captions.
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Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
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1903-1947
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150 Linear feet (circa 30,000 items)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.06
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
An outstanding scholar in the field of Iranian studies, Ernst Herzfeld (1879--1948) explored all phases of Near Eastern culture from the prehistoric period to Islamic times. This collection documents Herzfeld's excavations at Samarra, Persepolis, Pasargadae, and Aleppo and includes correspondence; field notebooks; drawings; sketchbooks; inventories of objects; "squeeze" copies of architectural details; and photographs.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1822-1986
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39 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S10
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 10: Sacred Music and Religious Themes contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music, much of which is traditional Christian music, but also documents popular attitudes towards religion in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Vidal, Teodoro
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1592-1992
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4 Cubic feet (15 boxes, 10 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0712
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Maps, prints, posters, religious articles, publications and photographs, relating to the history and culture of Puerto Rico. Mr. Vidal's family and personal papers are also included.
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Payne, James E., 1941-
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1973-1977
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325 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1988-006
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by James E. Payne while on vacation in East Africa of Coptic Christians in Ethiopia and the daily life of the Nuba and people in the Sudan. Images of Christians, mostly taken in the village of Lalibel, show various activities such as celebrations during the Timkat festival, cooking, Bible study and washing. Also depicted are art objects to include crucifixes and illuminated manuscripts. Images of the Nuba in Sudan, many from the Kordofan region, illustrate activities such as boat building in Omdurman, celebrating an Islamic festival in Omdurman, buying and selling in markets, and wrestling. Portraits depict body art and costumes. Also included are structures such as burial mounds and decorated houses.
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- Dates:
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1986-2013
bulk 1995-2005
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6.75 Cubic feet (design records; plans and drawings)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.MRS
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Archives of American Gardens
The Mary Riley Smith Records document the decades-long career of Manhattan-based garden designer, writer, and lecturer Mary Riley Smith. It includes drawings, plans, planting lists, notes, correspondence, invoices, estimates, 35 mm slides, negatives, photographs, digital files on CDs, and other materials relating to many of Smith's garden design projects, dating from 1986-2013.
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Litzinger, Beatrice
Litzinger, Joseph
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1900-1990
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2.75 Cubic feet (8.5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0530
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of seven series, the largest, Series 1, being the postcards. The largest categories in this series are the geographic, both United States and foreign, and greeting cards. The most important and probably the most interesting of the geographic cards are from Maryland as they give us an historic view of the state. This is part...
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Winter, Lumen Martin, 1908-1982
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1930-1982
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10.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wintlume
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Business and personal correspondence, contracts, and sketches. Most files remain in their original annotated folder.