George Kroto Lantern Slide Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1992.02
name: label: Collector
content: Kroto, George, 1873-1946
label: Photographer
content: Tsurubuchi, H.
label: Photographer
content: Ikeda, Kametaro, 1862-1915
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Kamakura-shi (Japan)
label: Place
content: Kyoto (Japan)
label: Place
content: Yamanaka Lake (Japan)
label: Place
content: Yokohama-shi (Japan)
label: Place
content: Tokyo (Japan)
label: Place
content: Osaka (Japan)
label: Place
content: Hakone-machi (Japan)
label: Place
content: Yokosuka-shi (Japan)
label: Place
content: Japan -- Description and Travel
creator: label: Collector
content: Kroto, George, 1873-1946
label: Photographer
content: Tsurubuchi, H.
label: Photographer
content: Ikeda, Kametaro, 1862-1915
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: American engineer George Kroto (1873-1946) assembled this collection to document Japanese art and culture, while living in Japan from 1901-1910 under the employ of Takata & Co., Tokyo.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 130 Items (glass lantern slides, color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1901-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Kroto's son, Stanley G. Kroto, 1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1992.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 linear foot : arranged by slide number and by topic
label: Arrangement
content: Box 1 : Women and daily life (1-13). Geisha (14-18). Sumo Wrestlers (19-23). Group of samurai (24). Palanquins (26-27). Customs (28-37). Market Scenes/Shops (38-47). Priests (48-51). Shrines (52-58). Temples (59-66).
label: Arrangement
content: Box 2 : Temples (c'td.) (67-75). City Views (76-88). Parks (89-98). Sculpture (99-101). Bridges (102-107). River and Falls (108-112). Scenic Landscapes (113-120). Mt. Fuji (121-130).
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Handcolored stereopticon slides of Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Images includes: place views, temples, tea houses, government buildings, domestic architecture, sculpture, landscapes, market scenes, women, Samurai warriors, wrestlers, Shinto and Buddhist priests, lantern makers, and workmen winding silk. Cities depicted include: Kamakura, Kyoto, Yamanaka, Yokohama, and others. The slides are often captioned in English and Japanese. Photographers represented may include H. Tsurubuchi of Tokyo and Kametaro Ikeda (1862-1915). Women and Girl's Living Style: Slide 1: &#x9c;Summer night Slide 2: &#x9c;Mother and a baby Slide 3: &#x9c;"Baby nurses under cherry trees." Slide 4: &#x9c;"A group of baby-nurses on a country road." Slide 5: &#x9c;A tea serving lady Slide 6: &#x9c;A woman with a parasol Slide 7: &#x9c;A woman reading Slide 8: &#x9c;"Young girls Making tea." Slide 9: &#x9c;Woman applying make-up Slide 10: &#x9c;Preparing the meal Slide 11: &#x9c;A woman standing Slide 12: &#x9c;Three women in a room Slide 13: &#x9c;A girl playing badminton Geisha Girls Slide 14: &#x9c;Maiko Slide 15: &#x9c;Three dancers Slide 16: &#x9c;"Geisha, Osaka" Slide 17: &#x9c;"Dancing girl. Kioto" Slide 18: &#x9c;"Concert of Koto and Shamisen" Sumo Wrestlers Slide 19: &#x9c;"Wrestlers" Slide 20: &#x9c;Sumo wrestling Slide 21: &#x9c;"one wrestler (Inagawa) stands in the arena." Slide 22: &#x9c;"Wrestler 'Hitachiyama'." Slide 23: &#x9c;"Wrestling" Samurai Warriors Slide 24: &#x9c;Group Samurai warriors Domestic Interior Slide 25:&#x9c;"Japanese Drawing room." Palanquins Slide 26:&#x9c;"Palanquin" Slide 27:&#x9c;"Palanquin in mountain road at Hakone." Customs and Living Style Slide 28:&#x9c;"Surf-bathing of Yuigahama, Kamakura." Slide 29:&#x9c;"Surf&#x2014bathing of Oiso, near Hakone." Slide 30:&#x9c;"Tea house at Sokokura, Hakone." Slide 31:&#x9c;Mt. Atago Shiba. Tokyo Slide 32:&#x9c;"Boat Excursion at the Foot of Arashiyama, Kioto." Slide 33: &#x9c;A peasant Slide 34: &#x9c;"Firemen's exercise on a ladder, which always takes place early in January." Slide 35:&#x9c;"'Manzai' dance. (Street scene in New Year)." Slide 36:&#x9c;"Marriage ceremony." Slide 37:&#x9c;A carp streamer on Children's Day Market Scenes/Shops Slide 38: &#x9c;"People of Imaichi coming back from market at Nikko." Slide 39&#x9c;"Workman winding silk from Cocoon." Slide 40:&#x9c;"a Ferry." Slide 41:&#x9c;Japanese lantern makers Slide 42:&#x9c;Insect shop Slide 43:&#x9c;Nursery shop Slide 44:&#x9c;Toy store Slide 45:&#x9c;"Odenya." Stall selling Japanese Hotch potch Slide 46:&#x9c;Tea house Slide 47:&#x9c;"Bath&#x2014Room" Priests Slide 48:&#x9c;"Japanese Shinto priest" Slide 49:&#x9c;"The Priests Praying to Bud[d]ha." Slide 50:&#x9c;"Buddha priests retiring from the commemoration for those who died in bo[a]ttles, held at Aoyoma cemetery, Tokyo." Slide 51:&#x9c;"Shinto Priest." Shrines Slide 52:&#x9c;"Fountain of Yasukuni Park, Tokio" Kameido Tenjin, Tokyo Slide 53:&#x9c;Kameido Tenjin, Tokyo Slide 54:&#x9c;Kameido Tenjin, Tokyo Slide 55:&#x9c;Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo Slide 56:&#x9c;"The torii Hakone." Slide 57:&#x9c;High Lantern in Sumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi shrine Slide 58:&#x9c;Sumiyoshi Shrine Temples Slide 59:&#x9c;"Fudo Temple, Narita near Tokio" Slide 60:&#x9c;Asakusa Kanzeon Slide 61:&#x9c;"'Anamori' Temple near Tokio" Slide 62:&#x9c;"Tomb of Tokugawa-shogun at Shiba Park, Tokio" Slide 63:&#x9c;Ueno Tennoji Temple in Tokyo Slide 64:&#x9c;"Iyeyasu tomb Nikko." Slide 65:&#x9c;"Nis [?] of Niomon gate Nikko." Slide 66:&#x9c;"Interior Iyeyasu temple Nikko." Box 2 Temples continued Slide 67:&#x9c;"Steps to the gate of Hachiman temple, Kamakura." Slide 68:&#x9c;"Tsurugaoka Hachiman Temple, Kamakura Slide 69:&#x9c;"Five storied Pagoda, Kioto" Slide 70:&#x9c;"The back of Kiyomizu temple Kyoto." Slide 71:&#x9c;"'Biodo' Temple, Uji, near Kioto" Slide 72:&#x9c;"Tai-Kioku Temple, Kioto Proceeding Ancient Ceremony." Slide 73:&#x9c;"'Higashi' Temple, Kioto" Slide 74:&#x9c;"'Nishi-Hongan' Temple, Kioto." Slide 75:&#x9c;Myokoku Temple in Sakai, Osaka City Views Slide 76:&#x9c;"'Ginza' Street, Tokio" Slide 77:&#x9c;"Shintomi Theatre, Tokio." Slide 78:&#x9c;"Nihonbashi street, Tokio" Slide 79:&#x9c;"Kudan, Tokio" Slide 80:&#x9c;"Military Museum, Tokio" Slide 81:&#x9c;"A court of Justice, Tokio" Slide 82:&#x9c;"Naval Department. Court of Justice. Dept of Justice affairs." Slide 83:&#x9c;"Overhead Railway in Tokio." Slide 84:&#x9c;"Pier at Yokohama." Slide 85:&#x9c;Yokohama Slide 86:&#x9c;"Navy Port of Yokosuka." Slide 87:&#x9c;"Umeda station, Osaka." Slide 88:&#x9c;"Shijiokawara, Kioto" Parks Slide 89:&#x9c;Japanese Iris in Horikiri, Tokyo Slide 90:&#x9c;Ueno Park, Tokyo Slide 91:&#x9c;"'Ueno' Park, Tokio." Slide 92:&#x9c;"Zoological Garden at Ueno Park, Tokio." Slide 93:&#x9c;"Asakusa Park, Tokio." Slide 94:&#x9c;"Asakusa Park, Tokio." Slide 95:&#x9c;"'Asakusa' Park, Tokio" Slide 96:&#x9c;"Hibiya Park, Tokio." Slide 97:&#x9c;"'Mito' Park, near Tokio." Slide 98:&#x9c;"'Koraku' Park, Okayama." Sculpture Slide 99:&#x9c;"Bronze statue of Saigo at Ueno Park, Tokio." Slide 100:&#x9c;"Bronze statue of Warrior 'Nanko', Tokio." Slide 101:&#x9c;"stone images Nikko." Bridges Slide 102:&#x9c;"'Nijiu' Bridge of Imperial Palace." Tokyo Slide 103:&#x9c;Nijiu Bridge of Imperial Palace, Tokyo Slide 104:&#x9c;Azuma Bridge, Tokyo Slide 105:&#x9c;"The stone bridge on the lotus pond, Hachiman temple Kamakura." Slide 106:&#x9c;"'Tenman' Bridge, Osaka." Slide 107:&#x9c;"Sanjio Bridge, Kioto." River and Falls Slide 108:&#x9c;"Ai&#x2014fishing, Tama[gawa] River." Tokyo Slide 109:&#x9c;"'Kegon' Water&#x2014fall. Niko." Slide 110:&#x9c;"'Tamadare' Waterfall." Hakone Slide 111:&#x9c;Tatsu no River in Oji, near Tokyo Slide 112:&#x9c;"Sea&#x2014side of Sukekawa, Mito" Scenery, Landscapes Slide 113:&#x9c;"Futami&#x2014[ga]Ura, Ise." Slide 114:&#x9c;"Matsu&#x2014shima, Sendai." Slide 115:&#x9c;"Snow-view of Ayase, Tokio." Slide 116:&#x9c;"View of Hakone." Slide 117:&#x9c;Full cherry blossoms at Mukojima Slide 118:&#x9c;"Cherry blossoms at the cliff of Kamonyama." Slide 119:&#x9c;"Cherry&#x2014Blossom on The Kumagai, near Tokio." Slide 120:&#x9c;"Full blossoms on Cherry Road, Yokohama" Mt. Fuji Slide 121:&#x9c;"Snow&#x2014Crowned Fuji from Ushinuma." Slide 122:&#x9c;"View of Mt Fuji" Slide 123:&#x9c;"Mt. Fuji from Tagonoura" Slide 124:&#x9c;"Mt. Fuji from Tagonoura" Slide 125:&#x9c;"Mt. Fuji on a moon light night." Slide 126:&#x9c;"Mt. Fuji viewed from Shoji lake." Slide 127:&#x9c;"Mt. Fuji viewed from Yamanaka lake & its refelec(sic)tion." Slide 128:&#x9c;"Spring View of Mt. Fuji from Gotemba." Slide 129:&#x9c;"Mt. Fuji viewed from Nishinoumi lake." Slide 130:&#x9c;"Mountain Guide of Mt. Fuji."