Beschreibung:

Japan. An album containing approximately 78 photographs, late 19th and early 20th century, including 45 colour-tinted albumen print views of temples and scenes, mostly with English credits in the negatives, each approximately 20 x 25.5 cm, mostly tipped in with hinges to corners, many lifting and some tears and creasing throughout the album, plus a large gelatin silver print photograph of a Japanese military group, 27 x 41 cm, an albumen print of members of Divinity School, 21 x 27 cm, and 30 smaller albumen prints and gelatin silver print photographs including Rev. A.E. Webb's Sunday School, Shiba Park, Tokyo, 14 x 22 cm; 8 photographs of Ainu people including 4 albumen print cabinet cards, the other gelatin silver prints of similar size and/or pasted to album leaves, plus other magazine cuttings and printed ephemera tipped in and loose at rear, pencil captions to mounts throughout, contemporary half roan over cloth, worn and covers near detached, folio (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Gertrude J. Woodd of Eastbourne (pencil inscription to front pastedown), with a note that the photographs were sent from Japan by C.H.B. Woodd. A printed flyer tipped in to the album is for a book by Rev. John Batchelor The Ainu and their Folk-lore, to be published by the Religious Tract Society 25 November 1901 with photographs taken by the author. Some of the photographs of Ainu in this album may be by Batchelor who features in the centre of one group with Ainu converts.