Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, D.C.
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The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are dedicated to furthering the study of Asian and Middle Eastern art and culture as well as turn-of-the-century American art. In addition to manuscripts, the museum's archives houses more than 125,000 photographic materials, ranging from early salt prints of the 1850s to modern ilfochromes of the late 1990s and beyond. The collection is wide and diverse, ranging from collodion photonegatives on glass to color lantern and film transparencies, and it covers a range of subjects and matter.

A portion of the collection is available online at
www.siris.si.edu
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SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC HOLDINGS

HENRY AND NANCY ROSIN COLLECTION
Assembled by collectors Henry Rosin and Nancy Rosin to document 19th- and early-20th-century Japan, this collection includes albumen and early hand-colored prints. It contains approximately 600 images depicting architecture, landscapes, formal studio portraits, and samurai. Each image is cataloged and may be viewed at www.siris.si.edu.

CHARLES LANG FREER PAPERS
The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art, include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, and 820 photographs by such photographers as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. The collection’s finding aid may be viewed at www.asia.si.edu/archives/finding_aids/freer.html.

MYRON BEMENT SMITH COLLECTION
The Myron Bement Smith Collection contains more than 74,880 individual photographs, including albumen prints, collodion wet-plate lantern slides, and color dye coupler photoprints. The photographs depict Middle and Near Eastern architecture dating from prehistory through 1966 as well as the daily life of the people in these regions.