Collection: Spence Family Collection. Fisk Special Collections. Series 8: Photographs. Series 9: Collections - Materials Related to the Fisk Jubilee Singers in Asia.
This is a handbill for the Original Fisk Jubilee Singers (Loudin's) for the 1894-1895 season. The front features the title, the date, and head-shot photos of each member of the group..
The reverse of this single sheet contains two sections of text.…
A commercially-produced image featuring a cigar-smoking Burmese woman holding her young child.
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various places and peoples in Asia likely gifted to the Spence family by the Fisk Jubilee…
A commercially-produced image featuring a streetscape of Bholeshwar Road in Bombay. The reverse of this image has barely-visible writing in pencil, reading "Bholeshwar Road, Bombay."
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various…
A commercially-produced image featuring a Burmese girl.The reverse of this image has barely-visible writing in pencil, reading "A Village Girl, Burma."
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various places and peoples in Asia…
A commercially-produced image depicting a spiritual procession of persons in a street in Bombay.
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various places and peoples in Asia likely gifted to the Spence family by the Fisk Jubilee…
A commercially-produced image depicting a Karen girl in Burma. The reverse of this image has barely-visible writing in pencil, reading “Karen Girl, Rangoon."
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various places and peoples in…
A commercially-produced image depicting an open-air market in Shanghai, China. Many Chinese persons crowd the featured market. The reverse of this image has writing in ink, reading "View of Market, Shanghai."
This image was one of many…
A commercially-produced image depicting a rickshaw operator and passenger in Shanghai, China. The reverse of this image has writing in ink, reading "View in Shanghai of Rickshaw Men."
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of…
A commercially-produced image depicting a temple in South Asia. The reverse of this image does not contain any writing.
This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various places and peoples in Asia likely gifted to the Spence family…
A commercially-produced image depicting a group of sixteen Parsi women and girls at a school in India. Fifteen of the women and girls sit on couches in a semi-circles surrounding a desk in the center of the image. Several leather-bound books cover…