Image is a posed portrait of an elderly person wrapped in a blanket. Printed on verso is photographer information with the inscription "N. SHAKESPEARE, Photographer, GOVERNMENT STREET. Victoria, V. I."
Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman in a shawl holding a pan that appears to be full of some kind of grain. The woman wears what appears to be a woven willow clam basket on her back for harvesting shellfish. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian woman Frasher river B. C."
Image is alternate view of a039312. Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman in a shawl holding a pan that appears to be full of some kind of grain. The woman wears what appears to be a woven willow clam basket on her back for harvesting shellfish. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian woman Frasher river B. C."
Image consists of a man on horseback holding a coiled rope. In the background are buildings. The man appears to be of the Tehuelche people indigenous to Patagonia. Printed on the verso is the photographer information with the inscription "PHOTOGRAPHIE VON J. M. JACOBSEN ST. PAULI Hackhell's Passage 2te Bernhardstrasse 25 HAMBURG Gesetzlich deponirt. Brevete (S. G. D. G.) Registered." Around the border of the verso is printed " Neuer Pferdemarkt 13. KARL HAGENBECK'S THIERPARK HAMBURG". Handwritten inscription in pencil reads "Patagonian Man".
Item is a photograph showing people on the taiko-bashi (drum bridge) over the Shinji-ike pond and wisteria in full bloom at Kameido Tenjin shrine in Tokyo. This is one of the many photographs from this period, which were patterned after ukiyo-e woodblock prints. This photograph follows a 1865 print, Inside Kameido Tenshin Shrine by Hiroshige Ando and others.
: Item is a photograph of rows of the thousand armed Kannon or Bodhisattva figures at the Sanjūsangen-dō, a Buddhist temple officially known as Rengeō-in (Hall of the Lotus King) in Kyoto, Japan. This temple was a popular subject, and several photographers of the time took similar photos.
Item is a photograph showing a woman in a kago (litter, palanquin) and two male kago carriers taking a rest to smoke. A woman holding a fan wearing kimono sits on a cushion in a kago.
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 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 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 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 a field of debris from earthquake destruction in Kasamatsu, Japan. It is a copy of Plate XV in the book "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton.