Gertrude Bass Warner papers, 1909-1923.

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Gertrude Bass Warner papers, 1909-1923.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233034771

Collection consists primarily of travel diaries, notes, correspondence and ephemera related to research about shrines and religious ceremonies for several manuscripts that Warner was working on. There is also correspondence about pieces of art that she and her husband were collecting to bring back to the United States for a museum exhibit. The bulk of the materials are about Japan during the time period of 1909-1923.

4.5 linear ft. (3 containers)

University of Oregon Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7102704

University of Oregon Libraries

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Warner, Murray.

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Warner, Gertrude Bass, 1863-1951

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Gertrude Bass Warner was a wealthy American woman who fell in love with Asia. She first traveled there in 1904, married an American engineer in Shanghai, and spent the rest of her life collecting, studying, and promoting Asian art and culture. She was instrumental in building Asian programs at the University of Oregon, in addition to founding the art museum to house the Murray Warner Collection of Asian Art. Mrs. Warner traveled extensively to build her collection, to study, to learn about museu...