KUSAKABE KIMBEI, UCHIDA KYUCHI and others

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KUSAKABE KIMBEI, UCHIDA KYUCHI and others

'Japan and N.America', 1890s

Album containing 127 albumen prints, sizes approx. 8½ x 10¾ in. to 5¼ x 3½ in. or the reverse, including twenty-seven loose photographs, sixty-two hand-tinted, occasional titles, the majority numbered in the negatives, variously mounted, the majority titled in pencil or on printed paper labels on mounts, paper label with list of titles in ink mounted on front blank, moroccco, titled in gilt, ruled in gilt, oblong 4to.

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Including unusual portraits of the Empress and Emperor of Japan; an interesting portrait of a Japanese man covered in tatoos known as Betto; two portraits of Aino's; women at their toilets; child acrobats; costume studies; japanese landscapes; a Wisteria vine bridge spanning across the river Fujikawa ; views of Niagara Falls; the Garden of the Gods - Manitou by Hook.

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