Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of three women and a man, seated on mats, with tea making equipment on the floor in front of the group.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a young woman seated with tea-making apparatus, with a second standing behind, holding a teapot.
[Japanese couple at their leisure.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 441 in the negative. Studio tableau of a young Japanese woman, seated with tea-making impedimenta around her, handing a pipe to a male figure who sits behind her, shielded by a linen mosquito net.
[Portrait of Charles James Lucas, Japan.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, wearing Japanese dress and attended by two Japanese women performng the formalities of the tea ceremony. An unidentified European companion (probably his brother Morton Lucas) is seated to the left.