Call Number:

PH-02770

Collection Name:

[Album of nineteenth-century photographic prints of Japan]

No. of Items:

50 photographs in 1 album

Span Dates:

circa 1881

Description:

Unpublished photographic album, measuring 26 x 31 cm, and containing 50 photographs by an unidentified photographer(s). The photographs, which measure approximately 20 x 25 cm, are all albumen prints; six of the photographs were hand-colored. Subject matter includes temples, volcanoes and other geographical features, tea houses, and people from late 19th century Japan. Nearly all of the photographs have printed captions, though some captions are hand-written. The album is inscribed: Margaret Mae N. Kähler, Buffalo NY, 1886. Print captions follow, with cataloger supplied information in brackets.

2006:0006:0001 -- (Buddhist temple);
2006:0006:0002 -- Fujiyama;
2006:0006:0003 -- Sacred bridge;
2006:0006:0004 -- (Tokyo) Shiba kuro honzon (temple interior);
2006:0006:0005 -- (Tokyo) Iris at Hori Kiri;
2006:0006:0006 -- Ojigoku (“Great Hill” volcanic district);
2006:0006:0007 -- Pine tree at kinakuji (Fashion of training a pine tree in a garden);
2006:0006:0008 -- Kusatsu (hot springs);
2006:0006:0009 -- (Nikado) Karamon, Iyeyasu;
2006:0006:0010 -- Minobu temple;
2006:0006:0011 -- [Ships in a harbor];
2006:0006:0012 -- Fuji from Yoshiwara (Fujiama volcano);
2006:0006:0013 -- Ikao;
2006:0006:0014 -- Dai butsu (Dai butsu idol);
2006:0006:0015 -- Papenberg rock (where Christians were destroyed);
2006:0006:0016 -- (First Shogun) Iyeyasu’s tomb;
2006:0006:0017 -- Dogashima;
2006:0006:0018 -- Hakone Lake;
2006:0006:0019 -- Nichiren’s tomb, Ikegami;
2006:0006:0020 -- Mississipi Bay;
2006:0006:0021 -- Kirifuri cascade;
2006:0006:0022 -- Kwannon (idol);
2006:0006:0023 -- Chio in bell (Chito Temple bell);
2006:0006:0024 -- Dai butsu nara;
2006:0006:0025 -- Monkey bridge;
2006:0006:0026 -- Jizo, Hakone (childhood god) ([Wayside?] god of childhood);
2006:0006:0027 -- Nio (God of war);
2006:0006:0028 -- Hannia Cascade;
2006:0006:0029 -- Dinner;
2006:0006:0030 -- (Buddist procession);
2006:0006:0031 -- Lotus (summer) (Garden) [Handcolored print];
2006:0006:0032 -- Hanna tea house;
2006:0006:0033 -- Shiba, Hidetada’s tomb;
2006:0006:0034 -- [Relief sculpture of a bird];
2006:0006:0035 -- Tamagawa;
2006:0006:0036 -- Maples (autumn) [Handcolored print];
2006:0006:0037 -- (After the earthquake);
2006:0006:0038 -- Snow (winter) [Handcolored print];
2006:0006:0039 -- Shokonsha, Tokio ([Totems?] through which no woman may enter);
2006:0006:0040 -- (Funeral);
2006:0006:0041 -- [Two men at Buddhist shrine];
2006:0006:0042 -- Cherry blossoms (spring) [Handcolored print];
2006:0006:0043 -- (earthquake district);
2006:0006:0044 -- (Rice milling);
2006:0006:0045 -- (Globe trotters);
2006:0006:0046 -- Shiba kuro honzon [Handcolored print];
2006:0006:0047 -- Pagoda, Ikegami;
2006:0006:0048 -- Trellis of wistaria [sic] [Handcolored print];
2006:0006:0049 -- Ueno [Photo mounted face-down in album);
2006:0006:0050 -- [Iyeyasu’s tomb].

Accession No(s):

2006:0006:0001-0050

Location(s):

f TR 655.11 J609 1886 HRC-P (2006:0006:0001-0050)
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