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Albumen Print

Taiwan Pavilion at the Tokyo Industrial Exhibition of 1907

Tokyo 1907
The Forgotten Horse Races of Ueno Park (3)

Shinobazu Pond at Tokyo's Ueno Park, 1890s

Tokyo 1880s
The Forgotten Horse Races of Ueno Park (2)

Horse race track at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park, Tokyo, ca. 1880s

Tokyo 1880s
The Forgotten Horse Races of Ueno Park (1)

Hand colored albumen print by Reiji Esaki of Japanese women transplanting rice seedlings, ca. 1890s

Outside 1890s
Japan's Green Revolution (2)

Two Japanese women sitting next to a hibachi brazier, 1890s

Studio 1890s
Japan's Mistresses of Fire

Cherry blossom along the Tamagawa Jōsui in Koganei, ca. 1890s

Tokyo 1890s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (2)

Albumen print by Michael Moser of the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo, published in The Far East Magazine in 1871

Tokyo 1871
Birth of a Nation

Albumen print by Felice Beato of the Bund in Kobe after the typhoon of July 1871

Kobe 1871
Battling Japan's Typhoons

Albumen print by Kimbei Kusakabe of the Nakasendo Highway, 1880s

Nagano 1880s
Nakasendō Highway

Albumen print of the Kawaibashi Bridge on the Tokaido, ca. 1880s

Shizuoka 1880s
Bridge on the Tōkaidō

Photo by Felice Beato of the Tokaido ferry across the Rokugogawa River at Kawasaki, 1870s

Kawasaki 1870s
Crossing Japan's 'Raging Rivers'

Mounds of coal at Moji Harbor, 1890s

Moji 1890s
Human Conveyor Belt (2)

Studio photo of a Japanese nursemaid and her charge, 1890s

Studio 1890s
The Burden of Youth (4)

Children and an elderly man sitting under a trellis of wisteria, 1880s

Outside 1880s
The Burden of Youth (2)

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Empire of Color (4)

How 19th century Japanese artists mastered the art of hand colored photography. PART 4: Why Japan became the empire of hand colored photography.

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Empire of Color (3)

How 19th century Japanese artists mastered the art of hand colored photography. PART 3: How colorists worked.

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Empire of Color (2)

How 19th century Japanese artists mastered the art of hand colored photography. PART 2: Color as a competitive tool.

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Empire of Color (1)

How 19th century Japanese artists mastered the art of hand colored photography. PART 1: How photography reached Japan.

Japanese Farmer with pipe, wearing a straw raincoat and conical hat

Studio 1880s
The Way of the Kiseru

Dejima in 1865

Nagasaki 1865
Dejima Island

170605-0032 - Maiko with Insect Vendor, 1890s

1890s
Selling Insect Musicians

110607-0015 - Japanese Food Vendor, 1870s

1870s
The "Human Horses" of the Rickshaw

80901-0009 - Bathing Japanese Women, 1880s

1880s
Beauties of the Bath

Albumen print by Felice Beato of the burned down American Legation at Zenpukuji, Tokyo, 1863

1863 Tokyo
Ruins of the American Legation

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