Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across a canal, with a boat moored in the foreground, towards the teahouse. Location unspecified, probably in Tokyo.
Common folk enjoying themselves. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of four men seated in a tea house: 'The group … represents four servants off duty - a cook, a house boy, a betto (groom) and a general utility man — the cook, who is an adept on the samisen [a guitar-like instrument], insisted on being represented with that ...
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).
Sculpture in the Conservatory [of the Royal Horticultural Society]. Photographer: Thompson, Charles Thurston
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the interior of the conservatory, with sculpture arranged along the side. The sculpture exhibited in the society’s conservatory was part of the overflow of material that could not be accommodated in the main building of the 1862 Exhibition.
The Garden and the Exhibition Building, looking south-east. Photographer: Thompson, Charles Thurston
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the terrace of the conservatory looking across the garden towards the dome of the exhibition building and the entrance to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Council Room, with a band-stand in the left foreground.