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Japanese palanquin and bearers, 1872
Sepia photograph with shades of blue, green and red representing a Japanese woman being carried in a palanquin by three Japanese men. The photograph is placed in the center of an album page decorated with a gold-leaf frame, colorful dots, and an inscription.
A Japanese woman sits in a kago [palanquin] carried by two bearers. Another man stands nearby carrying a rucksack with geta [wooden sandals]. Portions of the image have been hand tinted in shades of red, blue, and purple. | Inscription: "A Kango" [kago - palanquin] in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. "KANGO" stamped beneath image. | Notes: 1871-1873 as given in inscription for first item in album. This photograph, identified as Felice Beato's, appeared in Italo Zannier's "Verso Oriente" (Florence, 1986).
Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-4#2
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Charles Appleton Longfellow Photographs (1008.002), (LONG-Subcollection)
, Photograph Albums (1008.002/001), (LONG-SeriesName)
, East Asia (1008.002/001.001), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Longfellow - san's album, Felice Beato Photographs (1008.002/001.001-004), (LONG-FileUnitName)
, Photograph Albums (1008.002/001), (LONG-SeriesName)
, East Asia (1008.002/001.001), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Longfellow - san's album, Felice Beato Photographs (1008.002/001.001-004), (LONG-FileUnitName)
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 27888
Title: Finding Aid to the Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844-1893) Papers, 1842-1996 (bulk dates: 1862-1891)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#CAL
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#CAL
2021-11-02
01/01/1872 - 12/30/1872
Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Albums, Albums Related to East Asia. (1008.002/001.001)
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Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
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