Sepia photograph with an inscription representing a group of seven Vietnamese musicians including one boy, all holding musical instruments, sitting on a mat, the bare ground and a stone step at the rear of a house and looking at the camera.
Seven Vietnamese musicians pose outdoors in front of a house. Four have different stringed instruments, two have drums and one has a flute. All wear loose, dark shirts. All wear cloth head coverings. | Inscription: "Musicians . . . Annam. / 1874 / C.A.L." on front in ink in cursive by Charles Longfellow. | Dates and notes: 1874 as given in inscription.
Archives Number: 1008.2/2.1#305
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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
Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Photographs Not in Albums, Photographs Related to East Asia. (1008.002/002.001)
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