Photograph Albums of James and Eleanor Moose

Two photographic print albums created by James and Eleanor Moose, circa 1950s, which include images of the architecture and landscape of Syria. Photographs are all gelatin prints, mostly 7" x 9" or smaller. Album 1 contains 57 prints, mostly of Syrian architectural monuments. Many of the photographs are signed "Amin Sharif". Album 2 contains 58 prints, mostly of Syrian architecture and ancient sites. Some of the prints are captioned in Arabic. The album includes studio portraits of James and Eleanor Moose from 1954 and 1955.

James S. Moose Jr. (1903-1989) was a foreign service officer of the U.S. Department of State. He was stationed throughout the Middle East, including Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia and Syria. In 1952 he was appointed ambassador to Syria, and then to Sudan in 1958. Moose retired from the State Department in 1962 and taught international relations at the University of Massachusetts for one year. The albums were likely created in the mid-1950s while Ambassador Moose was stationed in Syria.

FSA A2008.03

Moose, James S., 1903-1989.

Moose, Eleanor Wood, 1900-

Syria

Photograph Albums of James and Eleanor Moose

Gift of Ms. Duncan Whittome, 2008.

Gift of James Moose, Jr., 2016

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Slides (photographs)

Photographs

Photograph albums

South Asia Photography Collection, FSA A2008.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Prints Organized into two albums: Album 1, 75 prints; Album 2, 58 prints.

Organized into 7 metal boxes Slides

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

Photographs -- 1950-1960 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin

Photograph albums

Slides (photographs)

Collection is open for research.