Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch
Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg
Synopsis:
This short video introduces the Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection, which comprises over 60,000 of the noted curator’s research and teaching slides. The collection is in the process of being digitized and made open access, and this talk both describes the collection and how and why it can be used for the study and teaching of Islamic art.
Reference:
McWilliams, Mary, “Sketches in Appreciation of Stuart Cary Welch,” Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Art Museums, 2004). 
Website:
The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection
Citation:
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, “The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg is the Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture at the Harvard Fine Arts Library, where she manages the library’s world class collection of books, photographs, and other rare items for teaching Islamic art. Her PhD work focused on women in medieval Arabic popular literature, and she previously worked as a Middle East Studies Librarian and as a Visual Resources Librarian. She holds a certificate from Harvard’s Copyright First Responders program and has been the image consultant for Muqarnas journal since 2018. She is the Images and Copyright Coordinator of Khamseen.