Photograph album of views in Sydney, New South Wales, portraits of family and friends, and photograp...
Photograph album of views in Sydney, New South Wales, portraits of family and friends, and photograp...
Photograph album of views in Sydney, New South Wales, portraits of family and friends, and photographs taken in Japan, [1910s] / compiled by Ichiro Kagiyama
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Author / Creator
Date
[1910s]
Call Numbers
PXE 1757
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Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
156 photographs (1 album) - black & white, 2 hand coloured
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Cloth covered photograph album with string binding, compiled by Ichiro Kagiyama and containing 156 black & white photographs, two of which are hand coloured. One of the photographs is loose, while the remainder are glued to the album pages. Some photographs are captioned in English and/or Japanese and some are dated 1914 or 1915. The album includes...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photograph album of views in Sydney, New South Wales, portraits of family and friends, and photographs taken in Japan, [1910s] / compiled by Ichiro Kagiyama
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Description source
Some photographs identified by reference to Melissa Miles' article Ichiro Kagiyama in early twentieth century Sydney, Japanese Studies, 2017
Published information
Melissa Miles' article Ichiro Kagiyama in early twentieth century Sydney, Japanese Studies, 2017, examines the photographs and their significance in detail.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Prof. Melissa Miles, May 2019
Collection history
The album was bequeathed to one of Kagiyama's long-time friends in Japan, remaining in that family's possession until it was given to Professor Melissa Miles when she was in Takayama, Japan, researching Australian-Japanese photographic relations.
Administrative / Biographical history
Ichiro Kagiyama was a Japanese photographer who lived in Sydney from the early to mid-twentieth century. There are differing accounts of his birthdate (sometime between 1882 and 1890 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan), and the circumstances and year of his arrival in Australia, but by the mid-1910s he was developing his skills and interest in photography....
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1757
Record Identifier
YolgyvG9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YolgyvG9
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Reference code
9637143
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