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1954réf. 56687Fresno Ca.: Kamiyama 1954. Young Buddhists in California in 1954 Photographed by a Noted Japanese-American Photographer A substantial group photograph featuring the attendees of the 1954 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely-dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a park in Fresno California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Stockton Lodi Delta Enmanji Marysville Sacramento Placer Palo Alto San Mateo Berkeley Florin Alameda San Francisco Oakland Fresno Selma Los Angeles San Diego Pasadena and numerous other California cities and locales. There are also contingents from Arizona the Western Young Buddhist League's Southern District the San Fernando Valley Young Buddhists the Coast District Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by noted and prolific Fresno photographer Urasaburo "Frank" Kamiyama. Frank Kamiyama 1886-1974 was an important Japanese-American chronicler of his own community in Fresno and the surrounding area beginning in the early 20th century. He was arrested on March 27 1942 as one of eight "named Japanese alien enemies" and interned at Angel Island in California and in Santa Fe New Mexico during World War II. His family including his wife Mitan and their four daughters were interned separately at Rohwer in Arkansas the easternmost of the Japanese internment camps. After the war Kamiyama continued to photograph the lives of Japanese Americans in California until his death. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 10 x 35¾ inches. Minor edge wear some creasing and abrading at top right corner a few soft creases four small circular stains near bottom right corner. About very good overall. unknown books

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Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Recording the Lives and Travels of the Owners of a Colorado Ranch

1935réf. 3380Various locations in Colorado New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Utah 1935. Very good plus. Seventy-four leaves illustrated with 485 photographs and picture postcards between 2 x 3 inches and 4.75 x 6.75 inches occasionally annotated in manuscript in white pencil. Oblong folio. Contemporary black textured cloth string tied. Small stain near right edge of front cover. Internally very clean and well organized. A voluminous collection of photographs picturing the lives and travels of Pat and Marge Williams centered on their ranch in Colorado. The images capture the landscape and buildings on the ranch both exterior and interior as well as the livestock grain fields and more. Several photographs capture farming activities including the harvesting of the alfalfa crop and the threshing of the wheat. The album also includes photos of the area around the ranch and within Colorado in places such as North Park Estes Park Cheyenne Plains Grand Lake and Fort Collins with images of Long's Peak Mary's Lake Spanish Peaks Big Fish Lake White River Trapper's Lake and others. The album also features locations visited by the compiler in the American West and Southwest with informative photos of Taos Mountain Cimarron Canyon Kit Carson's house the pueblos and ruins in Taos and Puye House Rock Valley Bryce Canyon Zion Canyon and other sites in New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Utah. Some of the original photographs and postcards feature Native American subjects such as Native American women in Taos "Victoriano Sisneras and Wife" in Puye and Navajo rug weavers at work in Arizona. Other interesting images depict a "Hopi Watch Tower" in the Grand Canyon the Mojave Desert "Old Fort Bridger" in Wyoming "Dinosaur tracks near Tuba City" and the Colorado River Bridge at Lee's Ferry. The final eighteen leaves encompassing about ninety-six photos and postcards mostly the latter record numerous scenes in various locations in Mexico. A far-reaching collection of vernacular images and pictorial postcards capturing numerous locations in the American West and Southwest during the mid-1930s. unknown books

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Wonderful Vernacular Photograph Album Capturing Scenes in the American West with Numerous Striking Panoramic Images of the Grand Canyon and the Rocky Mountains

1910réf. 3375Numerous locations including New Mexico Arizona California but mostly British Columbia 1910. About very good. Forty-six leaves illustrated with 232 photographs between 3.25 x 5.5 inches including forty small panoramic images measuring around 3.5 x 12 inches some manuscript annotations some images captioned in the negative. Oblong folio. Contemporary pebbled leather stamped in gilt "Grand Canyon and Canadian Rockies" on the front cover formerly string tied but binding and leaves now loose. One image roughly removed from the album minor chipping to some leaves but otherwise minor wear. An unusual and wholly engrossing collection of western American vernacular photography titled in manuscript on the first page "Views taken by M.H. Fussell of trip taken by Sarah E. Fussell and himself to Los Angeles to attend Amer. Med. Asso. On return trip via Canadian Rockies camping at Emerald Lake near Field Canada as seen by pictures." The author of this inscription was Dr. Milton Howard Fussell 1855-1921 longtime Philadelphia physician and instructor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who was the head of the Medical Ward at Episcopal Hospital until shortly before his death. Dr. Fussell must have also had a passion for photography as the present photographs were apparently taken by him along the course of his trip to the west coast with many of the pictures displaying Dr. Fussell's captions in the negative. A few of the captions are written backwards adding to the amateur character of Dr. Fussell's otherwise well-composed pictures. While on the way to California Dr. Fussell's photographs begin in Chicago with a couple of small panoramas of Lincoln Park but the scene swiftly shifts to the American West with images of Native Americans among them shots of "Indian children" and an "Indian Village" a "Pueblo at Laguna" numerous shots of New Mexico Las Vegas Raton and Albuquerque several small panoramic scenes of the majestic Grand Canyon and more. During their visit to the Grand Canyon Dr. and Mrs. Fussell took the chance to snap portraits of each other under which the annotation reads "The climbers. It took 12 hours to make the trip up & down. Hot!!!" On the way to California Dr. Fussell also took a couple of images of Kansas and Nevada before proceeding to snap about a half dozen pictures of the Sacramento Valley. The photographs from this point forward constituting the majority of the pictures in the album concentrate on the latter half of Dr. and Mrs. Fussell's expedition to British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies. After visiting Victoria and Vancouver the Fussells stayed at Camp Crusoe on Emerald Lake. This portion of their trip includes a few more images of the travelers themselves including a shot of Sarah with a large dead black bear. In addition to several small panoramas of Emerald Lake Dr. Fussell captures scenes of the natural wonders of British Columbia such as Mt. Burgess Mt. Wapta Bow Valley Yoho River Emerald Glacier Valley of Ten Peaks Kicking Horse Canyon Bow River Lake Louise Moraine Lake Mirror Lake Fraser River and more. The last few leaves feature other scenes in British Columbia and elsewhere with a street scene in Banff a view of the "Prairie Town of Suscatchewan B.C." a handful of pictures featuring the Sierra Nevadas and several photos captioned "Over the Coast Range" taken from a train. A unique photographic record of a West Coast excursion taken by a notable Philadelphian and his wife in the early 20th century. unknown books

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(JAPAN - CULTURE, 19TH CENTURY WESTERN ACCOUNTS OF). TITSINGH, ISAACABAA

ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPAN; CONSISTING OF PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND ANECDOTES OF THE REIGNING DYNASTY OF THE DJOGOUNS OR SOVEREIGNS OF JAPAN

1822réf. ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean. This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown books

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