Country Photograph Negatives
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
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content: Myron Bement Smith Collection
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content: Myron Bement Smith Collection / Series 2: The Islamic Archives
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.04, Subseries 2.11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Some of the photograph collections acquired by Myron Bement Smith (MBS) for the Islamic Archives included negatives but in most cases the negatives are copies. MBS not only copied photographs but also made black and white copy negatives of color slide collections in addition to duplicating the slides themselves for the Archives. The Smithsonian Institution also made copy negatives of some collections [SubSeries 3.4]. For some collections, photographs are missing and only the negatives exist. As with the photographs and slides, most negatives are labeled with MBS' alphanumeric accessions number while others have only a name or no source information at all. [See Subseries 2.1 for more information on the alphanumeric accession number system and individual collections.] For convenience, negatives are stored by format or size and therefore boxes are not in series order nor is a given series necessarily all in the same box.