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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1297(16)
Title:: Country under rice cultivation, China. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, numbered '6' on upper centre of mount. Showing labourers tending a field of rice.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1905
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1297(70)
Title:: Transplanting rice in Southern China. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1920-1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1297(71)
Title:: Chinese women emerging from the rice fields after the day's labor, China. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, originally copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/16(2)
Title:: View in the park, Ooweno [Ueno, Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards a group of smallholdings. Ueno hill was designated as one of Tokyo's public parks by the Meiji government in 1873.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

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