Charles Leander Weed Photographs of Japan
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2002.04
name: label: Creator
content: Weed, Charles Leander, 1824-1903
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Yokohama-shi (Japan)
label: Place
content: Mississippi Bay
label: Place
content: Japan -- Kanagawa prefecture -- Yokohama
topic: label: Topic
content: Bays -- Japan
creator: label: Creator
content: Weed, Charles Leander, 1824-1903
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The American photographer Charles Leander Weed became well-known for his photographs of California, especially his spectacular views of Yosemite. Weed spent some time in the early 1860s in Hong Kong, where he established a studio with the Chinese name Wit Ying-Seung. When this proved unsuccessful, he traveled in Asia, then returned to California. In 1866-1867, he traveled again to Japan and China, where he made mammoth-plate landscapes that were issued as a series entitled "Oriental Scenery" by the publisher Thomas Houseworth. This mammoth-plate albumen print shows a landscape view near Yokohama, which was the base of foreign trade in Japan after Commodore Perry's arrival in 1853. This mammoth-plate albumen print shows the coastline of Negishi Bay, located south of Yokohama Bay. Located just over one mile due south of Yokohama, across a narrow peninsula, Negishi Bay was known to the foreign residents of Yokohama in the 1860s by its American designation, Mississippi Bay, a nomenclature that was based on the name of one of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's naval vessels. This photograph was taken from a vantage point along the coastal road about two miles southwest of Yokohama, facing in the direction of the city and the more distant capital city, Edo. This site was well within the boundaries established by the Ansei treaties of 1858 for travel by foreigners without special permits.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (albumen, image 40 x 52 cm., mounted 56 x 70 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1866
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchase View of Yokohama, 2002.
label: Custodial History
content: Purchase, Fishing Village on Mississippi Bay, 2001.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2002.04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One flat box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of two photographic prints: I. One sepia monochrome albumen print taken from a wet collodion glass plate negative, 40 x 52 cm., by Charles Leander Weed, circa 1866. Printed caption on mount reads "View Near Yokohama 19." Printed text on the reverse identifies the publisher, Thomas Houseworth, 317-319 Montgomery St., San Francisco. The reverse also includes a reproduction of a medal won by Thomas Houseworth at the Paris International Exhibition 1867 for the "finest photographs of scenery of the Pacific Coast." Image depicts a view of the landscape near Yokohama, Japan.
label: Scope and Contents
content: II. One sepia monochrome albumen print taken from a wet collodion glass plate negative, by Charles Leander Weed, circa 1866. Printed caption on mount reads "Fishing Village on Mississippi Bay -- Near Yokohama 18". Printed text on the reverse identifies the publisher, Thomas Houseworth, 317-319 Montgomery St., San Francisco. The reverse also includes a reproduction of a medal won by Thomas Houseworth at the Paris International Exhibition 1867 for the "finest photographs of scenery of the Pacific Coast." The photograph depicts a road running along white cliffs next to a fishing village on Mississippi Bay (Negishi Bay), near Yokohama, Japan.