Kobe Bay to the westward, from the American Hatoba. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events View looking along the Kobe waterfront from the American jetty, showing the devastation caused by the typhoon of 5 July 1871. This issue of 'The Far East' gives a detailed description of the event. For a view of this area before the typhoon, see vol. 1, no. 22, print 4.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bay, towards a small fort on the headland in the distance, with two Japanese figures standing on the beach in the foreground.
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume 2, no. 5, 1 August 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. Quarto, 278 x 215 mm, pp. 53-64 of vol. 2, with albumen prints pasted-in alongside text. The 24 issues of volume 2, 1 June 1871 to 16 May 1872, are bound...
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of two women and a man, seated taking tea: 'The old man is 65 years of age, the matron 40, and the maiden 19. They are Yedo people of the respectable trading class.' (p. 60).