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This book presents photographs of the Misasagi, or burial mounds, of all 124 Japanese emperors since the Kofun period, reaching back some 1,600 years. The scenes captured--not of the tombs themselves, but rather the places for worshiping at the tombs, and the surrounding gardens and landscapes--were created by the emperor system, with its claim of an unbroken line of sovereigns, that served as the foundation of the modern nation state of Japan.
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Japan series
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30 color photographs made by Gil Garcetti documenting Japanese culture and the role of beauty in everyday life. The images include landscapes, portraits, and street scenes that focus on the intersection between the traditional and modern in Japanese culture. Specific images include gardens, temples, roads and storefronts, still-lifes, and views of individuals wearing traditional kimonos, as well as in modern dress. The images were published in the book "Japan: a reverence for beauty" by Garcetti (Balcony Press, published 2014), and the prints in this set, made in 2015, are identified by the page number on which they appear in the book. Numbers consist of 6, 7, 10, 19, 20, 26, 27b, 30, 32, 35, 37, 51, 52, 56, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 67, 78, 80, 82, 94, 96, 107, 109, 117, 118, and 122.
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"The startling revelations of a Chinese Intelligence Officer in Manchuria, who was forced to join the Espionage Service of Japan and to aid in establishing their sinister government monopolies in white slavery, drug traffic, and kidnapping"--Cover of dust jacket.
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"In many respects, Pentti Sammallahti is a modern-day nomad, an itinerant photographer who records lands and peoples as he comes upon them. One of the most distinguishing elements of his work is the inclusion of animals-they wander into his photographs, lounge about, run around, and disappear as naturally as they appeared"--Publisher's description.
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Scrapbooks: Botanical and Japan
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The addenda contains correspondence, business papers, estate material, diaries, account books, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material related to the work and family of James D. Hague. Other Hague family members represented in the addenda include Marian Hague, his son William Hague, and Mary Hallock Foote. Subjects included in the collection: Clarence King, mining, engineering, Guano Island, South Seas (Oceania), Japan, and the Lick Observatory. Also found in the addenda is a small group of papers of Horace F. Cutter of San Francisco, a friend of Clarence King; and a small group of papers of Edward Singleton Holden, who was an astronomer and Hague family friend. Holden was director of the Lick Observatory, president of the University of California, and librarian of West Point. The addenda also contains unprocessed folders and boxes of ephemera and realia including a chemical set, ore specimens, and printed material; photographs in Boxes 57-63 were transferred to the Photo Archive.
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Japan views
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Photographs made by Adam Clark Vroman, ca. 1892-1909, spanning various subjects, primarily his bookstore in Pasadena, California, and scenes from his travels. Of particular significance is Vroman's handwritten journal of a trip to see the Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona, in 1895, written sequentially on the back of 19 mounted photographs. Vroman's traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are also views of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. The California images include scenery and travelers in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson, Mount Lowe and the Alpine Tavern, and travelers having a picnic; details of missions; historic adobes of Monterey; Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego County; Yosemite and one view of Indians living in Yosemite Valley. Locations depicted in other parts of the United States are: Manitou, Colorado; Oregon, Illinois; Niagara Falls; Grant's Tomb; a bird's-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Vroman travelled to Japan in 1903 and 1909, and eight prints in the collection show Japanese men and women in traditional dress, as well as details of architecture. Vroman appears in a few photographs. There are several portraits of Pueblo Indian men, some identified in Vroman's captions.
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