1 Album (20 woodblock printed text pages with 20 woodblock print illustrations, Accordian album, 23 x 34 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Albums
Souvenirs
Woodblock prints
Place:
Japan
Nagasaki (Japan)
Date:
1829
Scope and Contents:
Descriptions and illustrations of villagers in Ikitsukishima in Nagasaki province setting out in boats, killing whales, and processing them. The album was likely acquired by Alice Roosevelt during a tour of Japan in 1905.
Biographical / Historical:
In her 1933 autobiography "Crowded Hours, Alice Roosevelt Longworth writes that on August 1, 1905, "... we steamed through the Inland Sea, greeted by fireworks set off from launches and sampans when we reached the Straits of Shimonoseki, to land at Nagasaki for a day of more entertainment."
Local Numbers:
FSA A2009.02 11
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.