India Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection / Series 5: Photography
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2012.01, Subseries 5.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries contains 8-by-10 inch enlargements of Lippe's black-and-white photographs of Indian sites, especially the sculpture. Most photographs have site information on the back. The photographs [Boxes 25 to 36] are in alphabetic order as identified by the information on the back. Sometimes the identification is the geographic location, sometimes the temple complex name, sometimes the specific chapel, a particular feature or subject. As a result, photographs for a particular site may be filed under several names.  Each photograph had a serial number on the back that evidently refers to roll and frame number but no master list was found in the collection. The Field Journals from 1958-1959 have detailed descriptions of what was photographed but no reference to roll numbers. The contact print album sheets dated 1959 [Box 24] do contain roll numbers and site identification. The Field Journals after 1965 include a small circled number next to each site description that records the film roll number but there is no notation about the frame number. 
The collection also includes a few color photographs [Box 37] and large format color transparencies [Boxes 38 and 39]