[Basket And Broom Sellers, Japan]
c1870s. Hand-coloured albumen paper photograph, 20.6 x 27cm. Minor crinkles overall. Most of the wares displayed are likely to be made of bamboo. A related image appears in Ohara (ed.), Japan 100 Years Ago: Peabody Museum of Salem, E.S. Morse Collection/Photography, Shogakukan, Japan, 1983, p127. Italian-born Felice Beato was a...... More