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Creator Underwood & Underwood.
Title [B.L. Dai looking at books of the Nashi who inhabit the high mountains between China & Tibet several hundred years ago. Now in The Library of Congress] [graphic].
Publisher Washington, D.C. : Underwood & Underwood, Inc
Publisher D.C. Washington. 1931
Date 1931
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Description Photograph depicting B.L. Dai, attired in a suit and tie, standing in front of shelves of folio books at the Library of Congress's Oriental Division on Jan. 9, 1931. He holds open a book of pictographs, probably Dongba, the script of the Nashi language. The Nashi (or Nakhi, Naxi) people inhabit the foothills of the Himalayas.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger from manuscript note on verso: Books of the Nashi who inhabit the high mountains between China & Tibet several hundred years ago. Now in the Library of Congress.
Corporate photographer and publisher from stamp on verso: This credit line should not be omitted, altered, or abbreviated: Underwood & Underwood Studios. This photograph is realeased for use in one publication only and must not be used for trade or advertising purposes, copied, loaned, syndicated or rented. Underwood & Underwood, Inc. 1230 Connecticut Ave, Washington, D.C.
Label on the front, Underwood & Underwood, Washington.
Identity of sitter from duplicate photograph in the collections of the Library of Congress.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of William H. Allen.
Subject Library of Congress Orientalia Division.
Dai, B.L. -- Portraits.
Asians -- Portraits.
Books.
Bookstacks.
Men -- Asian.
Naxi (Chinese people) -- Arts & crafts.
AAPI.
Genre Gelatin silver photographs -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo- Underwood & Underwood [P.8512.11]
Accession number P.8512.11