Photographs
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Ferguson, John Calvin, 1866-1945
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- John Calvin Ferguson Family Papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
- Extent
- 0.9 Linear feet (Boxes 14-17)
- Date
- circa 1850s-1967
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.33, Series 6
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- John Calvin Ferguson Family Papers, FSA A1999.33. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Gift of Peter Ferguson.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
- Scope and Contents
- Photographs include albumin prints, cabinet cards, tintypes, and black and white prints depicting John Calvin Ferguson, his family, various Chinese officials, his Peking home, and outdoor views of Shanghai. Two photograph albums include travel snapshots in China and photographs commemorating Ferguson and his wife's 50th wedding anniversary. Three photograph albums are in traditional Chinese binding, and include photographs of Ferguson's collection of paintings and objects given to Nanjing University in 1934, and photographs of styles of landscape paintings.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510302896-1503510302979-3
- Metadata Usage
- CC0