Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 02-051
Freer Gallery of Art
Field Expedition Records, 1914, 1923-1942
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Freer Gallery of Art |
Title: | Field Expedition Records |
Dates: | 1914, 1923-1942 |
Quantity: | 10.69 cu. ft. (19 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (1 16x20 box) |
Collection: | Accession 02-051 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records documenting the joint expedition made by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from February 20, 1923 to August 6, 1927, and also the Freer Gallery of Art sponsored expedition from November 16, 1929 to April 11, 1934. Both expeditions were led by Carl Whiting Bishop, Associate Curator, 1929-1934, and were designed to create a Chinese government-approved cooperation between the Chinese and American scientific and archeological communities. Field assistants and other members of the expeditions included Archibald Gibson Wenley, Kuang-zung Tung, Li Chi, Daisy Furscott Bishop, and Elise Wenley. Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, reports, a manuscript catalogue draft, regulations for excavation, notes, monthly and annual financial statements, expense reports, receipts, expedition fund ledgers, newspaper clippings, checkbook stubs, bank books, cancelled checks, and related materials. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting the joint expedition made by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from February 20, 1923 to August 6, 1927, and also the Freer Gallery of Art sponsored expedition from November 16, 1929 to April 11, 1934. Both expeditions were led by Carl Whiting Bishop, Associate Curator, 1929-1934, and were designed to create a Chinese government-approved cooperation between the Chinese and American scientific and archeological communities. Field assistants and other members of the expeditions included Archibald Gibson Wenley, Kwang-zung Tung, Li Chi, Daisy Furcott Bishop, and Elise Wenley.
Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, reports, a manuscript catalogue draft, regulations for excavation, notes, monthly and annual financial statements, expense reports, receipts, expedition fund ledgers, newspaper clippings, checkbook stubs, bank books, cancelled checks, and related materials.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942
- Bishop, Daisy Furcott
- Chi, Li, Dr.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Tung, Kwang-zung
- Wenley, A. G. (Archibald Gibson), 1898-1962
- Wenley, Elise
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-051, Freer Gallery of Art, Field Expedition Records
Container List
Box 1
Bishop Correspondence, 1914, 1923-1942
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folders 3-8 American Council for Learned Societies, 1928-1942 (See also Biggerstaff, Knight, January 1928-February 1929)
Folder 9
Folders 10-11 American Geographical Society, 1925-1941
Folder 12
Folder 13 American Legation (Peking) (See also Hayden, L.; Li, Chi, 1925-1928)
Box 2
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3 Antiquity, 1927-1940
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13
Box 3
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folders 9-12 Creel, H. G., 1929-1937
Folder 13
Folder 14
Folder 15
Box 4
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8 Ferguson, John C., 1930-1941
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13 Gale, Esson M., 1928-1934
Folder 14
Folder 15
Folders 16-17 Goodrich, L. C., 1928-1941
Box 5
Folders 1-3
Folder 4
Folder 5 Greene, Roger S., 1925-1939
Folder 6
Folder 7 Gutmann, Edgar, 1930
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13
Folder 14
Folder 15
Box 6
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folders 2-3 Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1932-1935
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7 Latourette, Kenneth S., 1934-1941
Folders 8-9 Lattimore, Owen, 1931-1941
Folders 10-12 Laufer, Berthold, 1922-1934
Folder 13
Folders 14-19 Li, Chi, March 1925-December 1928
Box 7
Folders 1-4 Li, Chi, 1929-1933
Folders 5-8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13 March, Benjamin, 1927-1934
Folder 14
Folder 15
Folder 16 Menzies, James M., 1925-1940
Folder 17
Folder 18
Folder 19
Box 8
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13 Read, Thomas T., 1936-1939
Folder 14
Folder 15
Folder 16
Folders 17-20 Rudolph, Richard C., 1935-1942
Box 9
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3 Schuster, Carl, 1935-1942
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folders 9-24
Box 10
Folder 1 Sowerby, A. de C., 1924-1934
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folders 9-10 Ting, V. K., 1924-1936
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folders 13-18 Tung, K. Z., 1924-1938 (See also American Legation (Peking))
Folder 19
Box 11
Folder 1
Folder 2
Dohan, 1922-1937; Fernald, Helen E., 1928-1929; Hall, H. U., 1935; Jayne, Horace H. J., 1928-1932; Legrain, P. Leon, 1929-1936; Speiser, E. A., 1933)
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folders 6-7 Wenley, Archibald G., 1924-1934
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folders 10-11 Wilbur, C. Martin, 1933-1939
Folder 12
Folder 13
Folder 14 Wilson, Samuel, 1925-1938
Folder 15
Folder 16
Folder 17 Yetts, W. Perceval, 1934-1940
Folder 18
Box 12
Writings: Manuscript Catalogue of Acquisitions, 1923-1925
Folders 1-5 "Manuscript catalogue of acquisitions acquired by the Freer Gallery Expedition, Peking, 1923-1925," unpublished typescript with mounted photographs, 1 v.
Writings: Letters of Report on Field Work, 1923-1933
Folders 6-12 Letters of report written by Carl Whiting Bishop to John E. Lodge
Writings: Timeline of Expedition Events, 1928-1929
Folder 13 Rough timeline outlining events related to the expedition carried out by Dr Li Chi, Mr. Tung, and Carl Whiting Bishop
Writings: Regulations Governing Excavation in Shansi, 1926
Folder 14 Typescript list of broad rules governing the treatment, ownership, and study of historical objects excavated in the province of Shansi, 14 July 1926
Writings: Miscellaneous Notes, n.d.
Folder 15 Bishop's handwritten notes pertaining to the expedition, 2 items
Box 13
Financial Material: Statements of Accounts, 1923-1934
Folder 1 Statements of account for Bishop, January 1923-June 1928
Folder 2 General accounts, February 1923-December 1923
Folder 3 Bishop's accounts, January 1923-June 1924
Folder 4 Bishop's U.S. gold account, July 1924-June 1925
Folder 5 Bishop's monthly statements, July 1924-June 1925
Folder 6 Elise Wenley's U.S. gold account, July 1924-June 1925
Folder 7 Monthly and annual statements, July 1925-June 1926
Folder 8 Bishop's U.S. gold account, 26 April 1926
Folder 9 Monthly and annual statements, July 1926-June 1927
Folder 10 Account of trip to U.S. via Europe, April 1927-July 1927
Folder 11 FGA expedition account, July 1927-June 1928
Folder 12 Li Chi and Tung accounts, November 1928-February 1930
Folder 13 Li Chi and Tung accounts, November 1928-July 1930
Folder 14 "Excavation and Travel Trips," February 1930-February 1933
Folder 15 Li Chi's U.S. to Peking expenses, n.d.
Folder 16 Duplicate of accounts, January 1930-Nov 1934
Financial Material: Trial Balance Sheets, 1924-1927
Folder 17 Trial balance sheets (duplicates), July 1924-March 1927
Financial Material: Miscellaneous receipts and notes, 1928-1930
Folder 18 Handwritten note outlining monthly field expenditures and salaries; receipt from the Banque Belge Pour L'Etranger; duplicate bill with accounts from the Yung Hsing Stationery Co.; and notes converting field expenses
Box 14
Financial Material: Expedition Fund Ledgers, 13 v., 1924-1934 - Cash books listing expenditures for salaries, personal and household expenses, furniture and equipment, transportation charges, et. al.
Folders 1-2 FGA expedition funds, July 1924-June 1925
Folders 3-4 FGA expedition funds, July 1925-June 1926
Folder 5 FGA expedition funds, July 1926-April 1927
Box 15
Folder 1 FGA expedition funds, July 1926-April 1927
Folder 2 K. Z. Tung accounts, November 1928-June 1930
Folder 3 FGA expedition funds, July 1932-June 1933
Folders 4-5 FGA expedition funds, February 1930-June 1932
Box 16
Folder 1 FGA expedition funds, July 1932-June 1933
Folders 2-3 FGA expedition funds, July 1933-March 1934
Financial Material: Checkbook Stubs, 1928-1929
Folder 4 Checkbook stubs, 19 March 1928-13 February 1929
Folder 5 Checkbook stubs, 1 March 1929-1 July 1929
Box 17
Financial Material: Bank Books, 2 v., 1924-1929
Folders 1-2 Bank books of the National City Bank of New York, under the name of Daisy Furscott, Freer Gallery
Financial Material: Checkbook Stubs, 1924-1929
Folders 3-25 Checkbook stubs, 10 July 1924-5 July 1926
Box 18
Folders 1-11 Checkbook stubs, 5 July 1926-28 April 1927
Folder 12 Checkbook stubs, 4 October 1927-12 March 1928
Folder 13 Checkbook stubs, 22 November 1928-8 July 1929
Financial Material: Deposit Books, 3 v., 1924-1927
Folders 14-16 Deposit books, 3 v., 9 July 1924-28 April 1927
Box 19
Financial Material: Cancelled Checks, 1924-1929
Folders 1-27 Cancelled checks, 10 July 1924-19 December 1925
Box 20
Folders 1-31 Cancelled checks, 22 December 1925-28 April 1927
Folders 32-33 Cancelled checks, 11 January 1928-31 December 1929
Box 21
Newspaper Clippings - Newspaper clippings regarding the Freer expedition to China and also documenting general archaeological work being conducted around the world at that time. Unbound clippings have been housed by size and arranged thereunder chronologically. Note: Related clippings may be found in the Charles Lang Freer Papers, Press Cuttings Book II.
Folder 1 Unbound clippings (medium size), 5 August 1928-4 April 1932
Folder 2 Unbound clippings (medium size), n.d.
Folder 3 Bound volume of newspaper clippings, entitled "Archeological Clippings," 1924-1928
Box 22
Folder 1 Unbound clippings (small size), 5 August 1928-29 March 1930
Folder 2 Unbound clippings (small size), 1 April 1930-January 7, 1931
Folder 3 Unbound clippings (small size), 11 November 1931-6 May 1932
Folder 1 Unbound clippings (large size), 5 August 1928-4 May 1930
Folder 2 Unbound clippings (large size), 25 May 1930-24 January 1931
Folder 3 Unbound clippings (large size), 29 January 1931-20 April 1932
Folder 4 Unbound clippings (large size), n.d.
Folder 5 Unbound clippings (large size), n.d.
- Finding Aid encoded on: 5-15-2023
- Contact us at osiaref@si.edu