COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwaVMTC_08_Scrapbook_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 6
Title:
Merze Tate’s Photographs from Europe, Egypt, and India
Date:
approximately 1950s?
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
Scrapbook of black and white photographs featuring Merze Tate’s trips through Europe, Egypt and India. Photographs feature major tourist sites including the Tower Bridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Kehlsteinhaus (Germany), Via della Conciliazione, an aerial view of the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica (Italy), various ruins in Greece, temples in India, the Taj Mahal, views from a Hill Station in India, and views of Delphi. Also included are ghettos and construction sites in London, the Indonie Garden Restaurant, a suburban home in Switzerland owned by an African American family, school girls in India, Egyptian farmers working, rural areas along a river (possibly Egypt or India), a missionary rest home, domestic life in India, refugee huts and people in poverty in Calcutta.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Photograph albums
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Europe
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Egypt
Subject:
Egypt--Social life and customs--Pictorial works
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--India
Subject:
India--Social life and customs--Pictorial works
Subject:
Architecture--India--Pictorial works
Subject:
Architecture--Egypt--Pictorial works
Subject:
Dwellings--Egypt
Keywords:
black-and-white photographs; Temples; Religious architectural elements; Domestic life
Building Identified:
Copacabana (Night club : New York, N.Y.)
Building Identified:
Tower Bridge (London, England)
Building Identified:
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England)
Building Identified:
Kehlsteinhaus (Germany)
Building Identified:
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.
Building Identified:
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605--Tomb
Building Identified:
Taj Mahal (Agra, India)
Building Identified:
Hill stations
Building Identified:
London (England)
Places Identified:
Athens (Greece)
Places Identified:
Egypt
Places Identified:
Jīzah (Egypt)
Places Identified:
Kolkata (India)
Places Identified:
Delphoi (Greece)
Time Period:
Nineteen fifties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album #6 (Box 8). 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