Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.01 12.05YA
- Creator
- Yamanaka & Company
- Names
- Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Place
- China
- Topic
- Antiquities
- Temples -- China
- Buddhism
- Creator
- Yamanaka & Company
- See more items in
- Charles Lang Freer Papers
- Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.5: China
- Biographical / Historical
- Yamanaka & Co., was the dominant purveyor of Chiense and Japanese art in the US in the early 20th century. Company head Yamanaka Sadajiro (1866-1936), traveled extensively in China, acquring artworks for their rapidly growing American and European clientele.
- Extent
- 39 Postcards
- Date
- circa 1912
- Container
- Box 300
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 12.05YA
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- 39 postcards created by Yamanaka & Co., Beijing, showing views of famous Buddhist cave temples of China. Locations include Yungang, Tianlongshan, Longmen, and Gongxian. The postcards were likely presented by a Yamanaka representative to Charles Lang Freer, a profitable customer.
- 龙门 巩县 云冈 天龙山
- Postcards of Chinese Buddhist cave temples
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510431462-1503510431668-0
