Morith Collection

One photography album of Frick's world travels. Also includes two box cameras.

Frank Frick was a merchant of Baltimore, Maryland, a patron of the arts, and during the last years of his life, traveler to Asia, Africa, and Europe. The album is 50 pages, each with hand tinted albumen prints and extensive hand painted margin decorations. The album itself is most likely American, but the photographs are Yokohama studio productions, mostly by the Tamamura studio. There are two vintage cameras: an 1898 Kodak :"Bullseye" and a 1920s Enemann Heig XII (not operational).

This photography album are from a dispersed set documeting Frick's world travels.

FSA A2013.03

Frick, Frank, 1828-

Japan

Gift of Thomas E. Morith, 2013.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic albums

Photographs

Morith Collection. FSA.A2013.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

One flat box for album. Each camera is in a box.

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

Photographs

Collection is open for research.