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Views of Cambodian monuments
2002.R.29
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Views of Cambodian monuments
Creator:
Gsell, Émile, 1838-1879
Creator:
Adelphoi Zangaki (Firm)
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.R.29
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/234
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(33 photographic prints)
Date (inclusive): circa 1894
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Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
In original order. Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of Cambodian monuments.
Album compiled by an unknown French maker around 1894.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Acquired in 2002.
Views of Cambodian monuments, circa 1894, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2002.R.29
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r29
Processed and cataloged by Beth Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources
(CLIR). The finding aid was revised by Guynn in 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 33 photographs (mostly albumen prints) contains 20 views of the Cambodian temple complexes of Angkor Wat and
Angkor Thom and the Bayon
temple. Members of an European expedition and local inhabitants are present in several photographs. The album also contains
views of Phnom Penh, Huế,
and Canton (Guangzhou), including one image of the inauguration of the Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh (1894). Also included are
two views of Egypt (sphinx,
pyramids).
One photograph is signed in the negative: E. Gsell; two are signed in the negative: Zangaki.
The album has red cloth covers, and is lacking its spine.
Annotations are transcribed as they appear on the mounts or in negatives and are used as titles. A second, modern set of annotations
is initialed G. L.
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The collection was digitized by the repository in 2024 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002r29
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bayon (Angkor)
Angkor Wat (Angkor)
Cambodia -- Antiquities
Pagodas -- Cambodia
Albumen prints -- Cambodia -- 19th century
Cambodia -- Description and travel
Buddhist temples -- Angkor (Extinct city)