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Elizabeth Ridout Collection

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Creator

Ridout, Elizabeth
Dates

undated
Physical Description

1 Album (Accordion album with 24 albumen prints; 24 postcards)
Collection ID

FSA.A2010.01
EDAN ID

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a2010-01

Scope and Contents

Items presented to the Archives by collector Elizabeth Candida Ridout (1938-2015). Includes a small Japanese accordion album with brocade covers and 24 hand-tinted albumen photographs, ca. 1880s. One side of the album shows studio constructs and portraits of Japanese women, either alone or in groups posed in daily activities; the other side shows picturesque scenes of Japan, including Yokohama, Nikko, Kobe, Nagasaki and Mt. Fuji. Photographs are uncaptioned. The gift also includes 24 late 19th - early 20th century commercial postcards of Japan, hand-tinted. Four of the postcards are mementos from the trans-Pacific voyage on board the SS Mongolia, part of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Local Numbers

FSA A2010.01
Collector

Ridout, Elizabeth
Place

Japan

Korea

Kobe-shi (Japan)

Nagasaki (Japan)

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

Nikko (Japan)
Topic

Photography of women

Streets -- Japan

Temples -- Japan

Cruise ships

Travel
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Elizabeth Ridout Collection
Archival Repository

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albums

Photographs

Photograph albums

Postcards

Photographic prints

Hand coloring
Citation

Elizabeth Ridout Collection. FSA.A2010.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Elizabeth Ridout, 2010.
Rights

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

Photographs -- 1850-1900

Photograph albums

Postcards

Photographic prints

Hand coloring
Restrictions

Collection is open for research.