Black-and-white photograph with an inscription representing a Japanese woman standing by a chair against a wood carved wall
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Metama (Japanese woman) portrait, circa 1872
Black-and-white photograph with an inscription representing a Japanese woman standing by a chair against a wood carved wall
A geisha, Metama, poses in a European setting: carved wooden molding on the wall, Victorian sidechair, and carpet. She wears two monochrome silk kimono with wide dark satin neckline edgings. Her hands are concealed. | Inscription: "Metama san" in ink in cursive by Charles Longfellow. (On image.)
Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-2#07
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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
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

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