Fujian Sheng (China); National Lead Company; Savage Arms Company; Scientific expeditions -- China; China -- Description and travel; Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts; Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954 --...
Letter from Harry R. Caldwell to Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China, and forwarded to Sterling Clark in which Caldwell describes a proposed scientific collecting trip to Fukien Province in August, a description of ammunition and guns (National Lead...
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834; Abbās I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629; Rugs, Oriental
Author's armorial book-plate reproduced on t.-p. Ornamental lining-papers. Each colored plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [387]-401. Allegory.--Contemporary arts.--Carpets, runners and...
Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
"20 collotype plates from photographs of New Zealand, South Sea Natives, photomicrographs, and two portraits of the author. The Lewis Co., Boston, did the collotype prints. This is the only book by this company thus far identified. The book notes...
"2 plates [one?] after art are marked Leggo Brothers & Co., Photo Eng. N.Y. 2 half-tone illustrations from photographs of the lunar surface. The half-tone [illustrations] are single line and resemble Leggo Granulated Photographs."--Hanson...
China--Politics and government--1912-1928; Mammals -- China -- Classification; Birds -- China -- Classification; Reptiles -- China -- Classification; Amphibians -- China -- Classification; China Journal of Science and Arts; Clark, Robert Sterling,...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby begins by telling Clark that though his items have been prepared for shipping and dispatched, but are awaiting a steamer from Shanghai to Havre. He indicates it...
China--Politics and government--1912-1928; Scientific expeditions -- China; Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts; Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby reports that fighting continues, with Chiang Kai-shek making progress northwards towards Tientsin. Zhang Zuolin, meanwhile, is moving southward. Sowerby reports...
H.V. Allen & Co.; Berry Bros. & Rudd; Brooks Brothers (Firm); Browning Firearms Company; G. & J. Cary; Crouch & Fitzgerald; Dent; Dr. Auzoux; Duveen Brothers; F.E. Brandis, Sons & Co.; Galle; Gaumont (Firm); George Philip & Son; Gerrard and Company...
These items range from a set of andirons presumably used by the Clarks to RSC’s military uniforms. Items related to RSC’s horse breeding and scientific exploration are included, as are decorative objects.
Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Newsletters; Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Periodicals; Art -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Williamstown -- Periodicals;...
Graduate Newsletter, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, offered in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute, Number 10, Fall 1985, contains the Annual Report 1984-1985 and [Class Notes]
Biennale di Venezia (54th : 2011) ; Abidin, Adel , artist; Alsoudani, Ahmed , artist; Assaf, Ali, artist; Nanakeli, Azad; artist; Al Kalim, Harim, artist; Siti, Walid, artist; Iraq--Exhibitions
Preservation copy of document files in the Iraqi Pavilion press kit. The press kit was downloaded from the Venice Biennale website and was produced in conjunction with the exhibition held in Venice, for the 54th Venice Biennale, June 4 - November...
Biennale di Venezia (54th : 2011) ; Latin America--Exhibitions
Preservation copy of document files in the Latin American Pavilion press kit. The press kit was downloaded from the Venice Biennale website and was produced in conjunction with the exhibition held in Venice, for the 54th Venice Biennale, June 4 -...
"...I am indebted to my friend Mr. Maurice B, Adams for the exceedingly careful and conscientious manner in which these illustrations have been prepared, and for the hearty co-operation and able assistance he has given to me in preparing the...
Gobelin tapestry; Tapestry -- Austria -- Vienna; Furniture -- France -- History -- 18th century; Boucher, François, 1703-1770
The Vienna collection of tapestries / H. Schmitz. -- The Boucher Gobelins and the meuble rose in the Viennese imperial palace / Edmund Wilhelm Braun;"Translation of Die Gobelins des Wiener kaiserlichen Hofes." Includes bibliographical references
This is a notebook kept by Robert Sterling Clark during his 1908-1909 exhibition to northern China. It contains observations related to surveying and meteorology, as well as some anecdotes about the trip.
This is a Mandarin translation, commissioned by the Clark, of Through Shen-kan. the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the...
These photographs were taken on Robert Sterling Clark's 1908-09 expedition to the Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces of China. The originals reside in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Photography -- Early works to 1850; Photography -- Scientific applications
"1 facsimile of a photogenic drawing of ferns (done on the block) as a plate [to illustrate an article serialized by Dr. Golding Bird "A Treatise on Photogenic Drawing" reprinted from the Magazine of Natural History, p. 234-44]...printed in rust to...
De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeanette Expedition (1879-1881); Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions; Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel; Lena River Valley (Russia) -- Description and travel
Four collotypes from photographs of memorial wreaths, coffins, and the railroad car that transported the remains of those lost on the Jeanette expedition
Lick Observatory; Wells, Fargo & Company; Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.); Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.); California State Capitol (Sacramento, Calif.); Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, Calif.); Mission San Xavier del Bac (Tucson,...
Includes "49 half-tone illustrations of coastal scenery on 30 plates with two litho tints. Half-tones produced by Forbes Co., Boston; the photographers represented are Watkins, Taber, Tibbit[t]s, [Fiske]...This little book of photolithographic...
