Details
Creator Clark, D. R., photographer.
Title Chinese gent and lady. [graphic] / By D. R. Clark, chief photographer, with Transit of Venus Party to Russian Station, 1874.
Publisher Indianapolis, Ind. : Published by D. R. Clark, North Pennsylvania Street
Publisher IND. Indianapolis. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 17.5 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Full-length portrait of a Chinese man and Chinese woman seated at a table. In the left, the woman, attired in a decorative headdress and a dress with large, full sleeves, sits on a carved, wooden chair with her feet on a wooden footrest. In the right, the man, attired in a cap, a traditional robe with fur at the cuffs, and cloth slip-on shoes, sits with his legs crossed and faces the viewer. A vase of flowers and possibly a tea set are on a tablecloth-lined table in-between the man and woman.
Is part of Asiatic and Tropical Views 28
Notes Title from publisher's printed series list on verso with thirty other titled views (No. 1-36).
Date inferred from content.
Series number (No. 28) also written in manuscript note on mount below image.
Photographer's imprint printed on verso above titled series list.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Manuscript note on verso: S.R. Marrines.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Biographical / historical note Indianapolis photographer D. R. Clark was included in one of eight observation parties sponsored by the United States government to gather information about the December 8, 1874 Transit of Venus. His party traveled to Vladivostock, Russia.
Subject Chinese.
Chinese -- Clothing & dress.
Flowers.
Men -- Chinese.
Tea services.
Women -- Chinese.
AAPI.
Geographic subject Venus (Planet) -- Transit -- 1874.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Group portraits -- 1870-1880.
Genre photographs -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Miscellaneous - Clark - Non-Phila. [P.9299.5]
Accession number P.9299.5