Japanese photo album with Ainu image
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Heading: (Japan)
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Title: Album of 26 original hand-colored albumen photographs of Japanese people and seenes
Place Published: Japan
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1880
Description:
Author:
Title: Album of 26 original hand-colored albumen photographs of Japanese people and seenes
Place Published: Japan
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1880
Description:
Images approx. 9x13.5 cm (3¾x5¼"), glued to paper album leaves, with ink captions on the leaves. Album measures 34x26 cm (13½x10¼"), pictorially embossed color boards.
Selection of unusual and interesting photographs, including a rare view of three Ainu men. Other images include House Scene, with woman holding baby (or a doll?); priests worshipping at a Shinto shrine; Theatre Girls; Jugglers and Contortionists; Singing Girls; Mode of Criminal Punishment; Street Minstrels; House Servants; Japanese Wrestlers; a Corean Priest; and more.
Condition
Covers well worn, detached, spine perished; the album paper with some chipping and wrinkling; fading to a number of images, but most are very good.
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Japanese photo album with Ainu image
Estimate $600 - $900
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