Oliphant's tea house — and village of O-jee — street view. Rice plain beyond. Photographer: Unknown
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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).
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume III, no. XIV. Yokohama, Monday, December 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. 157-168 of vol. 3, with albumen prints pasted-in alongside text. The 24 issues of volume 3, 1 June 1872 to 17 May 1873,...
Within the Castle, on the inner moat, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards moat and palace walls beyond, with a Japanese group of rickshaw pullers and others posed in the foreground.
Grave of a Japanese student in America. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Showing four young Japanese men gathered round the grave of Taro Kusakabe, a student at Rutgers College, who died in 1870. The grave is in the Japanese Burial Lot in Willow Grove Cemetery, New Brunswick: 'At the right of the monument, stands Mr Kozo Sugiura, now thir...
Suspension bridge in the Mikado's pleasure grounds, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the roadway across the bridge in the grounds of the Imperial Palace, built to the designs of T. J. Waters, Surveyor-General to the Japanese Government: 'The bridge is built over a ravine filled with water which separates the Mikado's Palace fr...