Telegraph gang, near Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a gang at work erecting a telegraph pole beside a railway line, under the supervision of European foremen: 'The telegraph is fast extending throughout the realm. Already the wires are complete between Kobe and Yedo — and but for the typhoon of the 25th Augu...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a field towards the headstones of the cemetery, with figures posed in the foreground: 'This is so commonly seen — a burial ground on the confines of a village, amid fields — only separated from them by a narrow footpath, and reposing under the sh...
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume III, no. VIII. Yokohama, Monday, September 16th, 1872. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Printed and published for the proprietors by James R. Anglin, at the 'Japan Gazette' Printing Office, No. 87, Main Street, Yokohama, Japan. Quarto, 280 x 225 mm, pp. 85-96 of vol. 3, with albumen prints pasted-in alongside text. The 24 issues of volume 3, 1 June 1872 to 17 May 1873, a...
Genre: Still Life Photography Study of two flowering lilies: 'But this summer, there grew in the garden of Mr G. C. Pearson on the Bluff, Yokohama, two stems from one bulb. The two stems, cut off and stuck into a bowl of ferns, are pourtrayed on the first page of this number of our journal...' ...
The Foreign Office, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Foreign Office buildings in the castle at Tokyo: 'The building now occupied by Gaimusho or Foreign Office, was formerly the property of the Prince of Kuroda, and is situate within the precincts of the castle. It is a good specimen of the yash...
The Owari Yashiki — Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography '… A distant view of the palace or yashiki of the prince of Owari in Yedo … The foreground of the picture shews a part of the city bordering the outer moat … ' (p. 88).