Sepia photograph representing a fence with stone lanterns along it and a complex of Japanese buildings behind the fence, trees in the background and a person in the front left. The photograph is placed in the center of an album page decorated with a gold-leaf frame, colorful dots, and an inscription.
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Shiba, Tokyo, Japan, 1872
Sepia photograph representing a fence with stone lanterns along it and a complex of Japanese buildings behind the fence, trees in the background and a person in the front left. The photograph is placed in the center of an album page decorated with a gold-leaf frame, colorful dots, and an inscription.
View of precincts of Shiba Temple in Tokyo, Japan. Main temple visible at right behind trees. Two Buddhist monks and a samurai in the lower left corner of the image. | Inscription: "Shiba." 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#60
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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

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
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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Felice Beato (1832-1909)
Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov

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