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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Title: | The Ming Tombs
| | Date Made: | circa 1870-1890's
| | Type: | Photograph
| | Materials: | albumen print
| | Place Made: | China
| | Measurements: | mount: 11 x 14 in.; 27.94 x 35.56 cm; image: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.; 19.685 x 26.3525 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | inscription on upper right in ink: Pailav [Pailow?] Ming Tombs. Near Nankow, inscription on lower left in ink: Presented by Miss Ellen S. Bates, inscription on lower left printed: THE MING TOMBS
| | Accession Number: | SC 1982.38.197
| | Credit Line: | Purchased with Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Man on donkey in front of five square arches; pavilion
Subjects:
Architecture; Photography--Printing processes--Albumen Link to share this object record:
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