Item is a copy of Plat X in "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton. The image shows a railway line twisted by earthquake of 1891, and Kisogawa railway bridge in background.
Item is a photograph showing earthquake destruction in the Neo Valley. A jutting roof appears in the foreground. Photographed by Mr. K. Kimbei of Yokohama
Item a copy of Plate XXII in "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton. The image shows Nagara Railway Bridge, twisted and broken after 1891 earthquake. A man stands in the middle of the track.
Item is a copy of Plate VI in the book "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton, showing the Nagoya Spinning Mill in Japan, after 1891 earthquake.
Item is an lacquered album of photographs from Meiji period Japan with a fabric-lined storage box. Photographs are hand coloured black and white prints.
Item is an lacquered album of photographs from Meiji period Japan with a fabric-lined storage box. Photographs are hand coloured black and white prints.
Collection consists of five albums of photos from Meiji period Japan including a few photos from Scotland, one album of photos from China, and two lacquer-framed photographs. It consists mostly of albumen hand-coloured Japanese photographs. These Japanese photographs belong to the genre known as souvenir photography or Yokohama photography. The subject of these photographs in this collection echoed those found in the Japanese ukiyo-e prints of the so-called “floating-world” of the late Edo Period, from around 1780 until the 1860s. The delicate hand colouring of the albumen silver prints is one of the characteristics of photographs of Japan from this period.
There were mainly two media to disseminate souvenir photos from Yokohama during Meiji period (1868 –1912): photo prints and lantern slides (see the James Davidson collection), but other materials were also used. These hand tinted photo prints were usually bound in albums with lacquer covers lavishly decorated in makie (蒔絵), a technique of applying adhesive metal such as gold and silver or colour powder in soft lacquer to create designs.
Japanese medicine boxes on display in visible storage in the Museum of Anthropology. The placard next to them has identification numbers for Pueblo pottery.
Japanese medicine boxes on display in visible storage in the Museum of Anthropology. The placard next to them has identification numbers for Pueblo pottery.
Japanese medicine boxes on display in visible storage in the Museum of Anthropology. The placard next to them has identification numbers for Pueblo pottery.
Japanese medicine box on display in visible storage in the Museum of Anthropology. The placard next to it has identification numbers for Pueblo pottery.