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Two young Japanese women in traditional dress holding hands
Two young Japanese women in traditional dress holding hands
Object Number 2003.1.2223.322
Display Title Two young Japanese women in traditional dress holding hands
Descriptions
Object Description Two young Japanese women in traditional dress holding hands. Print from PA-IN60-41, nineteenth century commercial photographic studio views of Japan. Subjects include portaiture as well as studio se-up scenes of Japanese "daily life." Photographs are primarily albumen prints, many with applied color. Many of the photographs in this collection can be found in "A Timely Encounter: 19th Century Photographs of Japan." Photographs were exhibited in Peabody Museum and Wellesley college joint exhibition.
Inventory Description 2 young Japanese women in traditional dress holding hands
Department Photographic
Date ca. 1870
Artist Baron Raimund von Stillfried Rathenitz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan / Kanagawa / Honshu / Yokohama
Materials Albumen print
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Miss Mary Lothrop, 1927

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