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1. 1783.cc.20(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
1783.cc.20(6)
Title:
Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), avec toute une famille, au lac de Ixiticca, avec plantation de Capaçu (cacao blanc). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group, posed in front of their open-sided thatched hut, situated in a cocoa plantation near Lake Ixiticca (location untraced). 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in both Spanish and Portuguese .
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 2(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(60)
Title:
The tea plant. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View of rows of tea bushes on a plantation, with a picker at work.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 2(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(61)
Title:
The tea plant. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View of rows of tea bushes on a plantation, with buildings in the background.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

4. PP.3803.bha, 1/12(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/12(1)
Title:
Homoco Valley [near Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking out over rice-fields in the Homoco Valley, near Yokohama: 'The view is taken from one of the spurs of the plateau which, rising from the sea level, extends for many miles through all the seaboard country around Yedo … The foliage in Japan is more varied...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item

5. PP.3803.bha, 1/12(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/12(5)
Title:
The Race Course [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the race course, somewhat distant, with ricefields in the foreground: 'No photographic picture can give any idea of the beauty of the Yokohama race-course. It is formed by banking up a dip in the plateau behind Mississippi Bay … The upper portion bei...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item

6. PP.3803.bha, 1/21(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/21(1)
Title:
Ishi-Hashi, Oosima. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the foreshore, with ricefields and houses in the foreground, towards 'an extraordinary line of rocks, stretching about halfway across the eastern entrance of the harbour, and forming an excellent natural breakwater. It is called Ishi-hashi, or sto...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

7. PP.3803.bha, 3/2(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 3/2(6)
Title:
Site of the graves of Will Adams and his wife [at Hemi-mura, near Yokosuka]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of rice fields with wooded hills beyond, 'taken from the foot of the hill, and the graves are situate among the wood on the very summit of the ground shown in the centre of the picture.' (p. 20) For a view of the graves themselves, see preceding issue (vol. 3, ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

8. PP.3803.bha, 3/13(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 3/13(5)
Title:
Oliphant's tea house — and village of O-jee — street view. Rice plain beyond. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the teahouse visited by Laurence Oliphant while private secretary to Lord Elgin in China. The village is described in his 'Narrative of a mission to China and Japan in 1857-8-9' (1859).
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item