Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Tokyo Environs Color Photograph Album, ca. 1900 - 1910

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Summary

Extent:
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Language:
Collection materials in English
Preferred citation:

Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Tokyo Environs Color Photograph Album. SC 872. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The album contains a group of 44 early (mostly) color photographs and 1 color postcard. Many of the photographs are of a group of unidentified [Western, possibly British] visitors to Japan, ca. 1900 -1910. The color photographs may be examples of the Lumière Autochrome process first patented in 1903.

Some of the color photographs appear to be hand-tinted. Scenes include a black and white photo of a large two stack coal burning steam ship. The verso of this states: "Coaling the steamer at Nagasaki: coal is passed up in baskets–people all standing on those ladders you can see hauling it from one to another."

Other photos show the captain and crew of the ship (possibly of British registry) and passengers on board relaxing on deck. What appears to be the ship's name, "Tokio," is visible on one of the lifeboats in the background. There are scenes of various locales onshore in Japan including views of cherry blossoms, tourists being conveyed via rickshaw and various sites in Nagasaki and Yokohama including a number of shrines, temples, and gardens.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 2005.
Physical location:
Vault

Access and use

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Tokyo Environs Color Photograph Album. SC 872. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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