1 Gelatin silver print (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
Portraits
Photographs
Place:
Tokyo (Japan)
Japan
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. The photograph is personally signed by the Empress (Haruko). Photograph was taken by Suzuki Shin'ichi (1835-1918) and printed by Maruki Riyō (1854-1923).
美子 昭憲皇后
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 05b
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Assembled by collectors Dr. Henry D. Rosin and Nancy Rosin to document nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century photography of Japan. Includes albumen prints, portions handcolored, some signed and numbered in the negative. Taken by photographers Felice Beato (b. ca. 1825), Baron Raimon von Stillfried (1938-1911), Kusakabe Kimbei (active 1880s), Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904), Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) and unknown photographers to depict architecture, landscapes, formal studio portraits, and daily activities.
Arrangement:
Organized chronologically by the creators.
Biographical / Historical:
Henry and Nancy Rosin were collectors of Japanese photography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Item (photographic print ; on mount 35.5 x 28 cm, image 25.6 x 19.6 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia -- Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
Empress Shōken, consort of the Meiji Emperor, dressed in imperial court robes.
Biographical / Historical:
Uchida Kuichi (内田九一) apprenticed under Ueno Hikoma, and eventually opened photo studios in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka. He is credited as taking one of the first photographs of the Emperor Meiji and his consort.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
1 Item (photographic print, hand coloring, 24.3 x 19.2 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia -- Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
Scope and Contents:
Empress Shoken, consort of the Meiji Emperor,dressed in imperial court robes. This is a reprint of Uchida's original photograph by the studio of Baron Raimund von Stillfried
Biographical / Historical:
Uchida Kuichi apprenticed under Ueno Hikoma, and eventually opened photo studios in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka. He is credited as taking one of the first photographs of the Emperor Meiji and his wife.
Local Numbers:
R033 (Rosin Number)
FSA A1999.35 033
General:
According to Henry and Nancy Rosin, this photographic print was probably reprinted by another photographer in this format, a not uncommon practice.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
