Yegi-Honten photographs relating to the Japanese Red Cross Society of Tokyo
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 86-35, USNM ACC 44415
label: General note
content: Data furnished by Chang-su Houchins, of the Department of Anthropology. She consulted Niho kokugo daijiten (Encyclopaedia of the Japanese Language) and Clark Worswick, Japan Photographs, 1854-1905, 1979.
name: label: Photographer
content: Yegi-Honten studio
label: Names
content: Nihon Sekijūjisha
label: Photographer
content: Yegi M., fl. 1890s
creator: label: Photographer
content: Yegi-Honten studio
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Yegi-Honten Studio was Yegi M.'s main studio, based in Awajicho, Kanda district. The studio was responsible for some of Japan's exhibit photographs at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904).

The Japanese Red Cross Society was founded by Count Tsunetami Sano in 1877. Originally known as Hakuaisha, it was intended to provide relief aid during the Satsuma Rebellion of that year. The organization provided medical supplies, rescue measures, and social work services. It was renamed the Japanese Red Cross Society in 1887.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Gelatin silver prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1904
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The photographs were exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904. They were part of the donation presented by the Imperial Japanese Commission to the United States at the close of the exposition in 1905 (accession 44415). The photographs were transferred to the archives by Chang-su Houchins in April 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.86-35
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs relating to the Japanese Red Cross Society (Nihon Sekijūjisha) of Tokyo, Japan, used in an exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904. It includes images of the Hakuai Maru, a Red Cross Hospital ship; Japanese Red Cross Society relief staff aboard the ship; the Tokyo headquarters of the Red Cross Society; two nurses with hospital equipment; and a ceremony in front of the Japanese Red Cross Society Hospital. Photographs of relief staff and nurses were possibly made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the society's founding.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts from the Japanese Red Cross Society's exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 44415.