VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including Baron von Stillfried

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including Baron von Stillfried

Japanese landscapes, portraits and costume studies, 1870s

Album containing 146 albumen prints, ninety-four hand-tinted, sizes approx. 7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. to 5 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. or the reverse, variously mounted, including two plates mounted together as panorama, approx. half titled and numbered in the negatives, forty-five titled in pencil on mounts, half purple morocco, oblong 4to.; with another album. (2)
Literature
Worswick, Japan - Photographs 1854-1905, pp. 58-59 where attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei

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Including street acrobats; a group portrait inscribed 'should old aquaintance be forgot, Manila'; children playing hopscotch; blind shampooer; Suma wrestlers; various scenes of girls at their toilet including an unusual image of ladies in a bathing room.

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