Lillian Reisler photographs of Korean artifacts and people
Object Details
- Local Call Number(s)
- NAA Photo Lot 95-39, USNM ACC 360970, NAA ACC 88-29
- Donor
- Reisler, Lillian
- Topic
- Fortune-tellers
- Pillows
- Clothing and dress
- Donor
- Reisler, Lillian
- Culture
- Koreans
- Extent
- 11 Prints (color polaroid)
- 2 hand-colored Christmas cards
- 4 Prints (silver gelatin)
- 1 Postcard (color halftone)
- Date
- circa 1950-1953, 1985
- Custodial History note
- Donated with Korean clothing to the National Museum of Natural History by Lillian Reisler in 1985 (accession 360970). Transferred from Anthropology Processing Lab, 1988.
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.PhotoLot.95-39
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Prints
- Postcards
- Christmas cards
- Photographs
- Citation
- Photo Lot 95-39, Lillian Reisler photographs of Korean artifacts and people, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Genre/Form
- Christmas cards
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents note
- Photographs made by Lillian Reisler in Korea circa 1950-1953. They depict Korean artifacts, including images of clothing, pipes, a hat, a purse, and a bamboo pillow, as well as a group of fortune tellers, a woman smoking a pipe, and a street scene with women bearing loads on their heads. The collection also includes a commercial postcard depicitng men playing batuk and two Christmas cards with drawings of a woman and children.
- Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Korean clothing also donated by Reisler held in Department of Anthropology collections in accession 360970.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512937454-1503512937456-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
