Frank Nicholas Meyer collection of Chinese prints
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 253207

USNM Accession 49472
name: label: Collector
content: Meyer, Frank Nicholas
place: label: Place
content: Wutai Xian (China)
label: Place
content: East Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The prints were given to Frank Nicholas Meyer by the head priest of a temple at Mount Wutai.  Meyer donated the collection to the Smithsonian in 1908 (USNM Accession 46472).  The collection was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives at an unknown date prior to 1984.
creator: label: Collector
content: Meyer, Frank Nicholas
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Frank Nicholas Meyer collection of Chinese prints
bioghist: label: Bigraphical Note
content: Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875-1918) was an agricultural explorer in China for the US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS253207
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Woodblock prints
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The items in this collection were originally cataloged individually by the NAA under their USNM catalog numbers, MS 253207, MS 253208, and MS 253209.  In 2023, the collection was reprocessed and all items were incorporated into a single collection under MS 253207.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Woodblock prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of five (5) prints collected by Meyer in Shanxi, China.  One print is a plan for a temple, and there are two sets of two prints of Chinese characters.

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