JAPAN - Lot 66

JAPAN Albums by a Westerner showing life in Japan, scenes of life, landscapes and small trades, ca. 1908. Photographs. 4 albums comprising approx. 77, 182, 312 and 126 vintage silver prints and 7 color-enhanced albumen prints. Yokohama, the American fleet, Chief Admiral Sperry visiting the city decked out in American colors, Japanese women, Tokyo, reception, Japanese in the fields, village, whale, archers, family, Nagoya castle, Mount Fuji, priests, porters in raincoats, geishas, Japanese families in traditional costume, tramway, pagodas, excursions, floods, Daibutsu, Doctor Rachel Reau, Tokyo, children, ceremonies, trip to China, man in raincoat, Daibutsu, Shanghai, Peking, prisoners in cangue, Kowloon, topless women washing, bathing in the sea, priests, wrestlers, Ainous, Hawaii. Images: 8 x 5 cm to 24 x 17.5 cm; albums: 27 x 34.5 cm