Veronika Soul Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2013.02
name: label: Creator
content: Soul, Veronika
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Palestine
label: Place
content: Jerusalem
label: Place
content: Damascus (Syria)
label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: Tianjin (China)
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content: United States
label: Place
content: Manhattan (New York)
creator: label: Creator
content: Soul, Veronika
setName: label: See more items in
content: Veronika Soul Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ms. Soul is a retired independent filmmaker who has travelled internationally, collecting materials that she finds visually compelling for her films, often at flea markets or antique shops.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Veronika Soul, 2013.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2013.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photograph albums
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content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized by box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection contains various albums, graphics and photographs, primarily of Japan, but also including China and the Middle East. Three photograph albums of Tianjin created by a Japanese military officer named Etsuzan in the late 1930s. Includes photographs of the city and of army life, foreign concessions, and the Tianjin flood of 1939. Also includes trips to Beijing, Chengde, Yungang, Shanghai, etc., a handful of postcards, including a signed photo of the famous geisha Hatsuko. Two photography albums mostly of travels in the US from the 1920s by a reprsentative of the Hara Silk Company. Eighty three Showa period postcards and 101 trade cards, primarily of popular Japanese stage and screen actors, actresses, and musicians, both prewar and postwar, up through the 1960s. Also includes 3 Meiji period painted postcards and two stereographs of Japanese soldiers during the Russo-Japan War. A 2015 addition includes 181 stereocards of the Holy Land, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as postcards from the Middle East. Also includes a set of painted lantern slides depicting views of Palestine.