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Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/23(6)
Title:: Tomio-dai, Kudan, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of lighthouse-cum-memorial: 'A monument to those who fell in the late rebellion! Placed on high ground that commands one of the best views to be obtained in Yedo, it serves at once as a monument and a beacon. It is situated in Fujimi-cho, in the ver...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/10(2)
Title:: The pavilion at Yedo Terminus [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the line towards the new Shinbashi (Shimbashi) railway station on the newly completed Tokyo-Yokohama line, with the pavilion built for the opening ceremony in the foreground. The building was opened on 14 October 1872 (see following prints).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/10(3)
Title:: Shinbashi Terminus, Yedo [Tokyo]. Interior view. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View looking towards the new railway station on the day of the opening ceremony, with crowds and a covered way decorated with flags in the foreground: 'We hope all our subscribers are so far aware of the nature of a photographic picture as to recognise the impossibility...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 14 Oct 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/10(5)
Title:: Shinbashi Station, Yedo [Tokyo]. Exterior view. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the station, taken at around the time of its opening in October 1872.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(226)
Title:: [Harbour at Low Tide with Figures.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in ink: '586' and in pencil: '50'. Genre: Landscape Photography A harbour at low tide and a vessel aground in the far distance. Two men pose; a man in a cap stands in the foreground to one side, the other is further away by the lighthouse and harbour wall. Trimmed negati...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 18(15)
Title:: [A Lithograph depicting] Genoa, [Italy].
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Printed under lithograph; 'M del et lightog. 1826/ Genoa'. Lithograph of the harbour with the shoreline to the right and the lighthouse known as the Lanterna di Genova immediately opposite. In the foreground two men are fishing.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1826
Extent:: 1 item

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