PHOTOGRAPHY


Album of portraits and trade-types (26), and views (24), 50 hand-tinted albumen prints, mounted on card recto and verso, some spotting and fading, contemporary half morocco, gilt lettered "Photographs. Japan" on upper cover, g.e., oblong folio, [c.1880-1900]
|Album of photographs, most of which are numbered in the negative, not obviously traced in Terry Bennett's Old Japanese Photographs. The portrait types include: Two young boys in feathered hats (numbered 88), Samurai seated (99), Fashionable woman with umbrella (2, one numbered 231), Woman kneeling with a young male attendant in front of a screen (22), Woman spinning (239), Samurai with arrows and hat seated (411), Samurai in armour (269), Two female musicians (49), Three female dancers (26), Two female calligraphers (19), Group of female musicians (28), Group of eight women of all ages (425), Daikon carrier (300), Wooden shoe maker (244), Woman pouring sake (215), Lottery salesman (245), Barrel maker (85), and Young priest (42).