Louis Constant Victor Rilliet photographs and diaries
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 83-38
name: label: Photographer
content: Rilliet, Louis Constant Victor
place: label: Place
content: Turkey
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content: Austria
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content: Germany
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content: Belgium
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content: Holland
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content: Denmark
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content: Palestine
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content: Tunisia
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content: Egypt
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content: Romania
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content: Cyprus
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content: Greece
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content: Malta
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content: Lebanon
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content: Iran
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content: Albania
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content: Switzerland
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content: England
creator: label: Photographer
content: Rilliet, Louis Constant Victor
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Louis Constant Victor Rilliet (ca. 1848-1917)  was a Swiss merchant who mostly traded in silks and velvets in Europe and the Middle East.  As a young man, Rilliet had wanted to become an artist, but his father forbade it. During some of his travels, he created watercolor illustrations in his diaries and made stereographic views on glass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Diaries
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content: 500 Stereographs (circa, glass)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880-1900
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Edward S. and Germaine M. Gallagher, 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.83-38
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Diaries
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content: Stereographs
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content: Stereoscopic photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: Stereoscopic photographs
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs and diaries made by Louis Constant Victor Rilliet during his business trips throughout Europe and the Middle East. The photographs largely document scenery, buildings, people, and transportation. The diaries, dated 1880 and 1891-1892, discuss visits to Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Turkey, Syria, Malta, Lebanon, Iran, Albania, Switzerland, and England. A viewer for Rilliet's glass stereographs, probably a veriscope, is also available in the collection.