Mrs. Harry C. Norcross Collection of Early Photographs of Japan

Unmounted and hand-colored albumen prints created by unidentified commercial studios for the export market, portraying the people, sites and daily life of Japan during the Meiji period. Photographers identified: Tamamura Kozaburo and Ogawa Kazumasa. Images include: Women looking at a sign ; Women enjoying tea on a balcony ; Geikos on a leisure boat ; Cherry trees along Koganei Banks ; A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road ; Statue of nio ; Nobi great earthquake

FSA A2003.13

Norcross, Henry C.

Norcross, Henry C., Mrs.

Ogawa, Kazumasa, 1860-1930

Tamamura, Kozaburo, 1856-19??

Japan -- 1890-1900

Photography -- Japan

Donation of Ms. Jean Leslie Norcross, December 30, 2003. Received from her mother in the late 1950s but unaware of how they came into her mother's possession.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Mrs. Henry C. Norcross Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A2003.13. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Jean Leslie Norcross, 2003.

prints: organized in 1 box (less than 0.25 linear ft.)

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Albumen prints -- 19th century

Collection is open for research.