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Young Japanese woman playing koto portrait, 1872
Sepia photograph colored with blue, pink, yellow, purple and red shades representing a Japanese woman sitting on a mat by a box with tea accessories and playing musical instrument placed on the floor. She is photographed against a plain wall in the background. The photograph is placed in the center of an album page decorated with a gold-leaf frame, colorful dots, and an inscription.
A young Japanese woman, possibly a geisha or maiko, plays a koto next to a hibachi with tea items. Portions of the image have been hand tinted in shades of blue, pink, yellow, purple and red. | Inscription: "Girl Playing the 'koto'" 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#55
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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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