James Riley Sever Lantern Slide Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1998.01
name: label: Creator
content: Sever, James Riley
label: Photographer
content: Child, Thomas
label: Names
content: Columbus, Christopher
label: Names
content: Parkes, Harry, Sir, 1828-1885
label: Names
content: Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916
place: label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: Canton (China)
label: Place
content: Beijing (China)
label: Place
content: Taiwan
label: Place
content: China -- Description and Travel
creator: label: Creator
content: Sever, James Riley
label: Photographer
content: Child, Thomas
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Hayes Ward (1835-1916) was a Congregationalist minister, Orientalist, and editor of the "The Independent", a weekly religious newspaper. Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828-1885) was a British diplomat who worked mainly in China and Japan.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 84 Lantern slides (black and white and color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1875-1877
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by James Riley Sever, 1998. Slides were obtained by Sever from Mrs. Barker, a neighbor of his sister's in Fairlington (Alexandria, Virginia) while she was moving in the summer of 1962. The slides were to be discarded as garbage. Then, stored in closet for 35 years while Sever was employed by as a Foreign Service Office of the United States Information Agency.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1998.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized in 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.) by slide number and topic.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Stereopticons 1875-1877; undated mostly black and white and a few hand-colored, some captioned and numbered, assembled by an unknown source to depict views of Chine, including images of the imperial Summer Palace, in particular the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan taken in 1877 by amateur photographer Thomas Child; the environs of Peking (Beijing), including the Great Wall, Ming Tombs, the observatory, pagodas, the Temple of Heaven and others; a monastery near Foochow (Fuzhou); views of Formosa (Taiwan); a Canton street scene; villages; Chinese workers in various activities; a portion of an English-Chinese lexicon; and works of art depicting Prince Kung, Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828-1885), "Ward of Salem" [likely William Hayes Ward (1835-1916)], and Christopher Columbus.