Album 9: "Ethnology [Japan?]ese, screens, [views?], industries"
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content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
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content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
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content: Department of Anthropology records / Series 22: Photographs of Specimens and Other Subjects (Processing Laboratory Photographs) / 22.1: Albums
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content: Box 5
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: 242 cyanotypes (many with four images per page).  Some of the photographs were taken by Romyn Hitchcock (for more information on Hitchcock, request the appendices from the archivist) in Japan.  The images are numbered in the plate and range from 28,351 through 28, 836 (with gaps); many number in the 28,600s and 28,700s, and are of objects such as screens.

There are other photographs probably taken on a trip to Asia (most, if not all, in Japan), by an unknown photographer.  These views show buildings, scenic views, ethnographic shots, plus views of the travelers themselves.  It is possible that the photographer was a woman (see photo 9:11).  It is thus possible that the photographer was Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (for more information on Scidmore, request the appendices from the archivist) whose travels and photographs are similar.  A search of known Scidmore photographs in other NAA collections and in publications, however, has not yet revealed any duplicates.  They are typical tourist photographs.

There are a few images taken by what appears to be an early "spy" camera of the 1890s.  These images consist of six small, circular prints, themselves arranged in a circle, suggesting the early disk film used by such "detective cameras."

Culture areas include the Orient, especially Japan.

Images include scenic and field views (many Japan), artworks (especially screens), and Anglo travelers in the Orient.