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Scenes of Japanese life and costumes

Title
Scenes of Japanese life and costumes [graphic]
Publication
1880?-1899?

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PictureBy appointment only MFY+ 95-40Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308

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Description
1 album (28 photographic prints); 34 x 29 cm.
Summary
Images depicting Japanese social life including women eating and drinking, dancing, playing musical instruments, in gardens, carrying babies, group on Children's Holiday, woman on horseback; a marriage scene; occupational scenes including group watching an artist at work, children with rakes and baskets, umbrella maker, vendor with produce in baskets, broom seller, basket seller, women making silk butterflies, washing clothes, weaving, women and children in fields, men and women pounding rice, a sumo wrestler, a warrior on horseback. Includes studio and other photographs.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Genre photographs.
  • Group portraits.
  • Portraits.
  • Albumen prints – Colored.
  • Photographic prints.
Note
  • Spine title.
Call Number
MFY+ 95-40
OCLC
NYPG95-F141
Title
Scenes of Japanese life and costumes [graphic]
Imprint
1880?-1899?
Local Note
Hand-colored albumen prints, 21 x 26 cm. or smaller, mounted and bound by NYPL, 1942. Typescript title page and index preceed images on numbered pages. Some numbered and titled in negatives; titles in English. Photographers not identified.
Research Call Number
MFY+ 95-40
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