Dallas Finn Slide Collection of Meiji Architecture
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2010.03
name: label: Creator
content: Finn, Dallas, 1919-2012
label: Names
content: Finn, Dallas, 1919-2012
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Asia -- Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Art, Asian
creator: label: Creator
content: Finn, Dallas, 1919-2012
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dallas Finn was an historian educated at Radcliffe and Harvard. After living many years in Japan, she became fluent in the language and taught at universities in Tokyo. She became an authority on Japanese design, with a specialty in how Western architecture was adapted by the Japanese. In 1995, Ms. Finn published "Meiji Revisited," a book about how Victorian architectural styles were modified and adopted in 19th-century Japan. She lectured widely on this subject and published magazine articles about Japanese design and historical encounters between Japan and the West.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5,500 Color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975-1990
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Dallas Finn, 2010.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2010.03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The slides are generally organized by prefecture and cities and town therein.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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, Weatherhill, 1995). Though the bulk of the slides are by Dallas Finn, the collection also contains copies of historic black and white photos showing lost buildings, Meiji personalities, and contemporary life. Also includes period photographs of foreighers in Japan and views of the foreign treaty ports Kobe, Yokahama, and Nagasaki. In addition to architectural sites, the collection covers industrial equipment and transportation like railroads, locomotives, bridges, canals, blast furnaces, and textile factories.