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Near and Far Eastern History and Archaeology

 

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Guide
Three printed registers to the three collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, by Colleen Hennessey, as well as Upton's printed Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Content note
Selected Ernst Herzfeld papers: archaeological studies in West Asia, 1903-1947 -- Carl Whiting Bishop papers: early archaeological research in China -- Photographs of Antoin Sevruguin: images of Iran, 1870s-1930.

Language note
Text mostly in English, but the Ernst Herzfeld papers contain text in German, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew as well as English.

Provenance
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.