Firmin Laribe Archive

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Title: Firmin Laribe Archive
Description: Firmin Laribe was a French military officer active in Beijing around the years 1904 and 1910. His archive encompasses over four hundred gelatin silver prints, notebooks and albums amongst other documents.
content: BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) holds several primary source materials:

• 4 binders containing in total over four hundred gelatin silver prints mounted on fawn colour cardboard. Photographs are all gelatin silver prints, measuring 13 x 18 cm and mounted on fawn colour cardboard. They are annotated with descriptive captions. The main themes he compiled were imperial palaces near Beijing, the landmarks en route to the Great Wall, cultural objects (sculptures, statuettes, cloisonné, bronzes, furniture), traditional architecture, street scenes, as well as costumes, ceremonial occasions, transport infrastructures and so forth. The four binders are digitized and fully accessible via the library database.

Binders are entitled:
“Chine. Costumes. Théâtre. Musique. Cérémonies. Transports. Opium. Bouddha”
(Identifier: VH-237 (3)-8 < Vh-237 (1-4)-8 >)

“Chine. Palais impériaux de Pékin. Tombes impériales des Ming, de Si-ling et de princes et princesses chinoises”
(Identifier: VH-237 (1)-8 < Vh-237 (1-4)-8 >)

“Chine. Statuettes. Sculptures. Cloisonnés. Meubles. Architecture. Scènes de rue. Bronzes. Instruments de l'observatoire de Pékin”
(Identifier: VH-237 (4)-8 < Vh-237 (1-4)-8 > )

“Chine. Temples. Tours et portes chinoises. Églises. Portiques. Ponts. La Grande Muraille de Chine”
(Identifier: VH-237 (2)-8 < Vh-237 (1-4)-8 > )

• 1 handwritten document that lists all photographs’ captions (Identifier: VH-237 (A)-8)

• 1 notebook containing 54 pages, measuring 20,2 x 30,5 cm (Identifier : VH-237 (A)-4)

• 2 albums containing over 80 photographs of Laribe’s journey to Italy around 1938 (Identifier: VZ-1196 (1)-PET FOL); catalogue.bnf.fr
Temporal Coverage: Twentieth century (dates CE) See all item sets with this value
Spatial Coverage: Beijing See all item sets with this value; Chengde See all item sets with this value; Shaanxi See all item sets with this value; Wutai Shan See all item sets with this value; Hankou See all item sets with this value; Great Wall of China See all item sets with this value; Shisan Ling See all item sets with this value; Xi Ling See all item sets with this value
Subject: Black-and-white photography See all item sets with this value; Military photography See all item sets with this value; Artifacts (object genre) See all item sets with this value; Costume (mode of fashion) See all item sets with this value; Street scenes See all item sets with this value; Townscapes (built environment) See all item sets with this value; Architecture See all item sets with this value
Language: French
References: “Cajarc vue par le commandant Laribe,” La Dépêche du Midi 11 June, 2010; www.ladepeche.fr
location: Bibliothèque nationale de France See all item sets with this value; Paris See all item sets with this value
address: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris; www.bnf.fr

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Firmin Laribe
Firmin Laribe (1855-1942) was a French amateur photographer and military officer, a guard commander of the French Legation active in Beijing around the years 1904 and 1910. He also published postcards in the French city of Carjac in the 1930s also known as "Éditions F. L.".
La Chine. Ses monuments. Ses palais impériaux. Son architecture. Ses costumes. Ses arts divers (bronzes, cloisonnés, porcelaines, sculptures, meubles). Moyens de transports. Cérémonies. Scènes de la rue / [Firmin Laribe]
The written description reads: "Temple des lamas - Un des bâtiments du temple".