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Kumeji (Japanese woman) portrait, circa 1872
Oval shaped black-and-white photograph with an inscription representing a Japanese woman standing against a short column with draped cloth and an open book on it. She is photographed against a plain wall background.
A Japanese woman, Kumeji, stands next to a waist-high, square wooden column against a plain backdrop. She wears a kimono with five mon [family crests], a stiff brocade obi [sash] and has bare feet. Her hands are concealed in the sleeves of her kimono. On the wooden column are a draped piece of checked cloth and a book that has been propped open. Oval shaped image. | Inscription: "Kumeji" in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. (On image.)
Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-2#80
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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, Scrapbook of Portraits (1008.002/001.001-002), (LONG-FileUnitName)
, Photograph Albums (1008.002/001), (LONG-SeriesName)
, East Asia (1008.002/001.001), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Longfellow - san's album, Scrapbook of Portraits (1008.002/001.001-002), (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
2016-01-30
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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