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Japanese accordion album
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2017.023.002
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1899 (Creation)
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1 album (50 pages, 50 hand col. albumen photographs): 14.9 x 19.7 x 3.4 cm
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Item is a folding album with a black lacquered wood cover, including painted and ivory inlay decoration. White accordion folded pages. Tissue interleaving. 50 albumen photographs are mounted with glue. Images are hand coloured.
Photographs include scenic views and landscapes, architecture of buildings, portraits - mostly of women engaged in cotton-spinning, cooking and other activities.
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Some ivory inlay is missing, binding is broken in two places. Water damage on first page and warping throughout the album. Some photographs are significantly faded, others in fair/good condition. Some interleaving missing. Front and back cover detached; accordion broken two places.
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- Shields, Lorne (Subject)