Photographs, Duplicates, and Visual Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942
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content: Carl Whiting Bishop Collection
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content: Carl Whiting Bishop Collection / Series 2: Photography Prints
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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content: FSA.A.02, Subseries 2.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Bishop assembled these photoprints, dated 1931-1933, into four volumes labeled as Books I - IV.  His intended use of the volumes is unknown, but the images appear to document the last years of the FGA reconnaisance work in China.  Much of Books I through III show the excavation conducted in 1931 by Bishop at the neolithic site at  Wan-ch'uan Hsien, in Shansi Province, as described in chapter XVIII of his unpublished manuscript.  Depicted also are some of the nearly 8,000 potsherds and other artifacts uncovered at the site, under the authority of the Shansi Provincial Museum and the Scientific Research Institute of Beijing Normal University.  Book IV illustrates the remaining investigations made in the Shanxi Province during 1933.