Morith Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2013.03
name: label: Creator
content: Frick, Frank, 1828-
place: label: Place
content: Japan
creator: label: Creator
content: Frick, Frank, 1828-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frank Frick was a merchant of Baltimore, Maryland, a patron of the arts, and during the last years of his life, traveler to Asia, Africa, and Europe. The album is 50 pages, each with hand tinted albumen prints and extensive hand painted margin decorations. The album itself is most likely American, but the photographs are Yokohama studio productions, mostly by the Tamamura studio. There are two vintage cameras: an 1898 Kodak :"Bullseye" and a 1920s Enemann Heig XII (not operational).
label: Biographical / Historical
content: This photography album are from a dispersed set documeting Frick's world travels.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph album (151 prints)
label: Extent
content: 2 Items (box cameras)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Thomas E. Morith, 2013.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2013.03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One flat box for album. Each camera is in a box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One photography album of Frick's world travels. Also includes two box cameras.