Still Prints of Asia
place: label: Place
content: India
label: Place
content: Turkey
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content: Japan
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content: China
label: Place
content: Armenia
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography-India
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content: Photography -- China
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content: Photography -- Japan
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content: Landscapes
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content: Architecture
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content: Architecture -- India
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content: Portraits -- Women
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content: Still Prints of Asia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The focus on India in this collection, the identity of the photographers, and the locations chosen to photograph shine a light on India during British occupation. The architecture of royally-funded 16th century Mughal structures builds a base against which the architecture (and ruins) of a contemporary 19th century town can be compared. Some speak more directly to the occupation than others.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 31 Prints (albumen and carbon)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1858-1903
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Box 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchase, 1998-1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1999.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Prints
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content: Prints
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content: Photographs
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content: Portraits
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content: Albumen prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged by item number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits
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content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection is made up of 30 albumen photographic prints and one carbon print. The dates range from 1858 to approximately 1903, with the bulk of photographs taken between 1860-1880. The photographs are from several photographers, including Samuel Bourne, Felice Beato, Abdullah Freres, A.T.W. Penn, Ganaptrao Abajee Kale, and Francis Frith. Twenty-six of the photographs are of locations around India, one was taken in Japan, and four are portraits of women in unidentified locations. The portraits are instead identified by ethnicity: one of a Chinese woman, one of a Persian-Armenian woman, and two of Turkish women. The two Turkish women are wearing the same outfit. 

A1999.1_23: "Darjeeling Tea Factory and Darjeeling Frost" shows a commercializing tea industry at the hands of a British foreman. The grisly A1999.1_27: "Inside the Secunderabagh, Lucknow" shows the outcome of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. A1999.1_30: "His Highness Maharao Raja Sir Raghubir Singhjt Sahib Bahadur" is a stately portrait of one of the last Rajput royals in Bundi. A1999.1_18 and A1999.1_20 show the view of Lake Nainital and the town of Nainital, which was built as a summer residence for British officials. Most directly, A1999.1_4: "The Delhi Durbar" shows the second British rulers of India, Edward VII and his wife Alexandra, gathering in Delhi in 1903.