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Housed in the National Museum of Asian Art Archives, the Charles Lang Freer Papers consist of some 357 boxes of material in 131 linear feet (or thereabouts), organized into twelve series.

Smithsonian Institution

Charles Lang Freer Papers is an archive in the NMAA collection.

Among Charles Lang Freer's personal papers are correspondence, photographs and more relating to his life, travels, and art collecting.

A digital hub for new research and open-access primary sources on Charles Lang Freer, the founder of the National Museum of Asian Art

Portrait of Charles Lang Freer is an object in the NMAA collection.

This richly illustrated narrative tells the story of Freer's humble beginnings in Kingston, New York, his rise to prominence in the railroad manufacturing industry in Detroit, and his transformation from capitalist to connoisseur of both Asian and American art.

This book documents Freer's experience in Egypt and discusses the place Egyptian art occupied in his notions of beauty and collecting aims.