Hangzhou: Stone railing on the bank of the Grand Canal

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Local Numbers: FSA A.01 12.05.GN.231

Creator: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
Names: Smithsonian Institution
Collection Creator: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919

Place: China

Topic: Antiquities; Temples -- China; Buddhism

Creator: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919

See more items in: Charles Lang Freer Papers; Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.5: China / Photographs in China, 1910-1911, Glass Plate Negatives (16 Boxes)

Extent: 1 Glass plate negative (Glass plate negative)

Date: 1911

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.05.GN.231

Type: Archival materials; Glass plate negatives; 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.

Arrangement: The negatives have been given individual numbers that roughly correspond chronologically to Freer's travels.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Existence and Location of Copies: Most of the negatives have corresponding collodion or gelatin silver prints, which are housed separately.

Genre/Form: Photographs

Scope and Contents: Glass plate negative taken by Chinese photographers during a trip by Freer and friends to Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province in February 1911. Stone railing near the terminus of the Grand Canal in Hangzhou, with Xiangji Temple on the opposite bank.; 杭州大运河香积寺