Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A2009.02 04
- Photographer
- Xunling, 1874-1943
- Names
- Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
- Collection Collector
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
- Collection Creator
- McIntosh, Burr, 1862-1942
- Place
- Beijing (China)
- China
- Topic
- Diplomacy
- Travel
- Photographer
- Xunling, 1874-1943
- See more items in
- The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia
- Biographical / Historical
- Alice Roosevelt visited Beijing in September of 1905 as a member of the William H. Taft Mission to Asia. According to her autobiography, the afternoon following an audience at the Summer Palace with the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, a troop of Manchu horsemen delivered the photograph on an imperial yellow chair.
- Extent
- 1 Gelatin silver print (image: 23 x 17 cm.)
- Date
- 1903
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A2009.02, Item FSA A2009.02 04
- Type
- Archival materials
- Gelatin silver prints
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, FSA A2009.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Photographs -- 1900-1910
- Scope and Contents
- A photograph received by Alice Roosevelt in September 1905 following an audience at the Summer Palace with the Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi for members of the Taft Mission to Asia.
- 北京 慈禧 慈禧太后 勋龄
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585222321438-1585222321489-1
