Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Photographic print (Album 2, page 43, hand coloring, image 18.6 x 23.7 cm.; on mount 30.5 x 38.5 cm)
Container:
Volume 2, Page 43
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Portraits
Place:
Asia
Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
View of young family. The woman carries an infant on her back while the father carries a young child in a basket suspended from a pole across his shoulders.
Biographical / Historical:
Baron von Stillfried was an Austrian noble who arrived in Japan in 1868. In 1871, von Stillfried opened a photo studio in Yokohama under the name, Messrs. Stillfried & Co. In 1877, in partnership with Hermann Anderson, von Stillfried bought Felice Beato's studio and negatives, and continued to take photographs of Japanese people. He eventually left Japan for Hong Kong in 1881.
Local Numbers:
R387 (Rosin Number).
FSA A1999.35 387
General:
Forms part of Rosin album number 2. Page 43.
Included in an album produced by the studio of Tamamura Kozaburo.
Title devised by Henry and Nancy Rosin.
Negative number taken from lower left corner of print.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
