The Japanese prison, Tobe [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view, looking across fields towards the prison buildings: 'One of the public buildings connected with our district is the unpretending modern edifice, pictured on page 4. It is the public gaol for the district of Kanagawa, and lies about half way b...
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the street of an unassuming thatched temple building: 'The body of the criminal is not allowed to remain very many seconds where it has fallen [after execution]; but is picked up by the attendants, packed in straw mats, and carried off for burial at th...
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume 1, no. 20, 16 March 1871. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Printed and published for the proprietor, by James R. Anglin at the 'Japan Gazette' printing office, no. 87, Main Street, Yokohama, Japan. Quarto, 277 x 215 mm, pp. 8; issued fortnightly, the text illustrated with original prints laid down. Volume 1, parts 1-24 (30 May 1870 to 16 May ...
Kitagata No Amanome [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the village street: 'The village pictured … was, some three years ago, some distance outside of the settlement; from which it was so completely cut off by the barracks of the English garrison stationed on the Bluff at Yokohama, that it c...