{"value"=>"<p>This group of papers constitutes an addition to the Arthur Upham Pope Papers (18.75 linear feet, 1921-1951) that is already held by the Library's Manuscript Division. For a biographical/historical statement about Pope and the Asia Institute, which he directed, see the accession record for the original collection.</p> <p>The addition includes a small, miscellaneous group of Pope's correspondence files. Major topics are: arrangements, 1930-1931, for the International Exhibition of Persian Art, London, 1931, for which Pope was a director; Asia Institute trips to Iran, India, and Pakistan, 1949 (press releases, lists of participants, itineraries, telegrams, and printed material relating to the Iran trip are also included). General and miscellaneous matters, dating largely from 1948, relating to the Asia Institute and to the Institute's School for Asiatic Studies are also discussed. A message to Pope, February 2, 1952, from the faculty of the School for Asiatic Studies on his retirement, and miscellaneous notes, forms, minutes, and printed material are also included. Correspondents include: William Phillips; the Pakistan Consulate in New York, and Embassy in Washington D. C.; John A. Pope (of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D. C.) and Joseph Pope, about both family and Asia Institute matters; Rajendra M. Prasad; orientalist Sir E. Denison Ross, concerning a 1931 American lecture tour, with a list of lectures; Rex Stead; Robert Strausz-Hupe; and the Syrian Legation, Washington D. C.</p> <p>Printed material includes: course catalogs of the School for Asiatic Studies, 1947-48, 1949-50, 1950-51, and 1951-52, and of the School's Far Eastern Section (in cooperation with the Woochefee Institute of New York), 1947-48; scrapbooks of clippings about China, 1945-46; proceedings and a list of members of the Second International Congress on Persian Art, London, 1931; a bulletin, Troisième Congres International D'Art et D'Archaeologie Iraniens, Leningrad, 1935; reprints of articles about the Institute and of writings by Pope, Dr. Phyllis Ackerman (Pope's wife and an Iran scholar at the Asia Institute), and others; brochures, reports, exhibition catalogs, newsletters, bibliographies, and publications issued by the Institute, and publications containing articles about the Institute.</p> <p>A group of 55 black and white photographs is also included. These include 40 Interior and exterior views of the Masjid-i Shah, Masjid-i Jami and the Palace of Ali Kapu, Isfahan, Iran. These are probably part of Pope's photographic survey of Iranian architecture undertaken during the 1930s and 1940s. The rest, both mounted and uncounted, show monuments, rural and urban scenes, and people, nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries in Iran and elsewhere in the middle east, including a view of Cairo signed \"Bonfils.\" One print showing a street scene in Eritrea, twentieth century, ca. pre-World War Two, is included.</p>"}