COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwa_wmtc_b07b_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 5
Title:
Merze Tate’s Photographs of Asia and Hawaii
Date:
approximately 1950-1957?
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
Brown cover album of black and white photographs featuring photographs from Asia and Hawaii. In the 1950s, Merze Tate was a Fulbright Scholar and lecturer for the U.S. Information Agency and visited India, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The album opens with clippings about the reopening of Kashmir after a Pakistani raider invasion. The majority of the photographs feature Jawaharlal, the president of Indian National Conference and later India’s first prime minister. The remaining photogarphs feature a crowd with signs, which include the word “Conference” and “convene constituent assembly”; mountains and trails in India, views of Bangkok; a river market; Angkor Wat; portraits of tourists; Avantipur; Martand; Achhabal; Pahalgam; Shalimar; Nishat Bagh (Pleasure Garden); Dal Lake monuments; Gulmarg (Meadow of Flowers); views of families living on river boats; religious archetecture from South Asia; and views of Angkor Thom, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Interspersed among the views of Asia are photographs of Hawaii featuring views of the craters and steam vents and sulfer banks at Volcanoes National Park.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Photograph albums
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--India
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Hawaii
Subject:
India--Social life and customs--Pictorial works
Subject:
Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History--Pictorial works
Subject:
Fulbright scholars--Travel--India
Subject:
India--History--19th century--Pictorial works
Subject:
Architecture--India--Pictorial works
Subject:
Clothing & dress--India--History
Keywords:
black-and-white photographs; Buddhist temples; Hindu temples; Houseboats; Politicians; Craters; Temples; Religious architectural elements
Person Identified:
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964
Building Identified:
Angkor Wat (Angkor)
Building Identified:
Śrī Raghunātha Mandira (Jammu, India)
Building Identified:
Wat ʻArunrātchawarārām (Bangkok, Thailand)
Building Identified:
Wat Phra Kǣo (Bangkok, Thailand)
Building Identified:
Phrathīnang ʻAnanta Samākhom (Bangkok, Thailand)
Places Identified:
Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Places Identified:
Angkor Thom (Extinct city)
Places Identified:
Achhām (Nepal : District)
Places Identified:
Pahlgām (India)
Places Identified:
Shalimar Garden (Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India)
Places Identified:
Nishāt Bāgh (India)
Places Identified:
Dal Lake (India)
Places Identified:
Gulmarg (India)
Places Identified:
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Hawaii)
Places Identified:
Singapore
Places Identified:
Hong Kong (China)
Places Identified:
Bangkok (Thailand)
Places Identified:
Awantīpur (India)
Places Identified:
Mārtand (India)
Time Period:
Nineteen fifties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album #5- Pictures from India (Box 7). 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