1 Gelatin silver print (print of a drawing , mounted on board in elaborately carved wooden frame, image: 27.5 x 20.5 cm.; frame: 66 x 43 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Gelatin silver prints
Photographic prints
Drawings
Portraits
Photographs
Place:
Tokyo (Japan)
Japan
Date:
1888
Scope and Contents:
A photograph received by Alice Roosevelt in July 1905 at an Imperial reception in Tokyo for members of the Taft Mission to Asia. A photographic print by Maruki Riyō (1854-1923) of a drawing by Eduardo Chiossone. The photograph is personally signed by the Emperor (Mutsuhito), and has a gold embossed chrysanthemum crest.
睦仁 明治天皇
Biographical / Historical:
Alice Roosevelt visited Tokyo from late June 1905 as a member of the William H. Taft Mission to Asia.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2009.02 05a
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, FSA A2009.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
