COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwaVMTC_05_Scrapbook_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 1
Title:
Merze Tate’s Photographs from India and Japan
Date:
1950-1951
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
Scrapbook of black and white photographs taken in Southeast Asia and Japan from 1950 to 1951. Merze Tate was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1950-1951 to teach geopolitics in India and was attached to the Visva-Bharati University as a visiting professor. She also took the opportunity to travel to other countries in East Asia and was commissioned by the U.S. State Department to produce travelogues of the places she visited. She traveled solo accompanied, as she put it, only by her camera. The photographs in this scrapbook feature views of Royal Palace of Kandy (Sri Lanka), Nikko National Park and shrines (Japan), fire walking in Rangoon (Burma), people and architecture of Mandalay (Burma), various temples and shrines in Japan, and African American soldiers stationed in Japan. Among the photos are clippings from local newspapers announcing convocations and lectures in which Merze Tate participated.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--India
Subject:
Architecture--India--Pictorial works
Subject:
Architecture--Japan--Pictorial works
Subject:
African American soldiers
Subject:
Photograph albums
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Japan
Subject:
Photograph albums--1950-1951
Subject:
India--Social life and customs--Pictorial works
Subject:
Fulbright scholars--Travel--India
Subject:
Fulbright scholars--Travel--Japan
Subject:
India--History--19th century--Pictorial works
Keywords:
Pagodas; Buddhist temples; black-and-white photographs
Building Identified:
Nikkō Kokuritsu Kōen (Japan)
Building Identified:
Temple of the Tooth (Kandy, Sri Lanka)
Places Identified:
Rangoon (Burma)
Places Identified:
Mandalay (Burma)
Places Identified:
Kandy (Sri Lanka)
Time Period:
Nineteen fifties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album 1 (Box 5). Western Michigan University Archives
Language:
eng
Rights Status:
In Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Collection:
Merze Tate Collection
Date Digital:
2023