Inventory of the Asian pictorial collection
Finding aid prepared by The Hoover Institution Library and Archives staff
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Title: Asian pictorial collection
Date (inclusive): 1883-2005
Collection Number: XX771
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 album box, 8 envelopes, 1 oversize folder
(1.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photographs, drawings, and paintings, depicting miscellaneous scenes and personalities in Asia, including scenes of revolutionary
disturbances in Iran, ca. 1908.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Asian pictorial collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
The Asian pictorial collection contains photographs, drawings, and paintings, depicting miscellaneous scenes and personalities
in Asia, including scenes of revolutionary disturbances in Iran, ca. 1908, and scenes in the Philippines in the 1920s and
1930s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Paintings
Drawing
Asia -- Pictorial works
Iran -- History -- 1905-1911 -- Pictorial works
album fA
1 album containing 16 prints taken during the Persian revolution of 1908
envelope m*B
1 print of a selamlik (sort of Trooping of the Colour, the weekly public procession of the Ottoman Sultan to the mosque for
the Friday noon prayers) of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Constantinople, 1908; 1 print depicting Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia,
and Abdullah Alireza, Governor of Jiddah, meeting in Raghama, near Jiddah, in late 1925 or early 1926 to negotiate the surrender
of iddah; and 1 print depicting Trebizond, Turkey, in the early 1900s; 1 drawing of a procession in Korea
envelope C
1 print of General Etterg, commandant of the city of Adrianopol during the war of 1877-1878 (present day city of Edirne, in
Turkey)
envelope D
3 prints of the visit of Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia to the Hoover Institution in 1945
envelope E
5 negatives of oriental screens
envelope mF
1 print of the first Korean diplomatic mission to the U.S.
1883
Scope and Contents note
Caption in Korean and English.
envelope G
2 prints pertaining to Election Day, May 1948, in Korea
envelope H
1 print and 1 negative of R. Turnbull, American officer, somewhere in Asia, probably after World War II
envelope mI
10 prints depicting the cities of Cairo, Mecca, Damascus, and Jerusalem, and people of Palestine
late 1800s - early 1900s
envelope J
5 prints of street scenes in Damascus, Syria, showing posters of President Hafez Assad
1993
box 1
Material not yet described
Incremental Materials
Processing Information
These incremental materials were processed to a baseline standard that employs an accession inventory for description. An
accession inventory is a basic description of an archival collection with no attempt at intellectual arrangement. The depth
of description varies depending on the format of the materials and the amount of pre-existing description received when the
materials were acquired.
box 3
1928-1936
Processing Information
The following list contains original enclosure titles present in the box: "Phillipines," "U.S. army"