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Maiko - Japan, 1872
Sepia photograph colored with blue and red shades representing three standing Japanese women, the one in the center holding an open parasol. They are photographed outside against a stone wall, all three looking at the camera. The photograph is placed in the center of an album page decorated with a gold-leaf frame, colorful dots, and an inscription.
Three Japanese girls, apprentice geisha also known as maiko, are shown wearing colorful attire. One has an umbrella over her left shoulder. Portions of the image have been hand tinted in shades of blue, purple, green, pink and red. | Inscription: "Kioto [Kyoto] Maiko's (dancing girls)" [maiko = apprentice geisha] in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. | Notes: 1871-1873 as given in inscription for first item in album. Probably by Felice Beato.
Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-4#47
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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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