Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
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- Myron Bement Smith Collection
- Myron Bement Smith Collection / Series 2: The Islamic Archives
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.04, Subseries 2.2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- The Myron Bement Smith Collection, FSA A.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Scope and Contents note
- The focus of the Islamic Archives is photodocumentation, but Myron Bement Smith (MBS) also collected written material and maps. The Iran material includes books and maps that MBS collected during his field research in the 1930s as well as books and articles published in Europe and the United States. Some materials were also donated to the Archives by friends and colleagues. In addition to these materials, MBS donated his own voluminous research notes on Islamic architecture and monuments in Iran. His Persia Geographic File consists of 18 notecard boxes organized alphabetically by province and containing source citations, photographs, notes and comments by MBS. He also created a Persian Monuments File that is arranged chronologically by period and contains bibliography and notes on Iranian sites. For MBS published materials, lectures and manuscripts on Iran see Subseries 1.5.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512430630-1503512430832-6
