{"id":2962,"date":"2015-01-15T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/preserving\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2015-01-15T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T19:47:43","slug":"e-g-stillmans-japanese-photograph-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/2015\/01\/15\/e-g-stillmans-japanese-photograph-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"E.G. Stillman’s Japanese Photograph Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. E.G. (Ernest Goodrich) Stillman,\u00a0son of successful banker James Stillman, received degrees from Harvard and Columbia before pursuing a career in medical research.\u00a0A devoted philanthropist and conservationist, Stillman\u00a0was a\u00a0generous benefactor of Harvard University. Like many\u00a0Americans at the end of the 19th century, Stillman\u00a0was drawn to Japan for its art, literature, culture, and history. During a trip to Japan in 1905, he purchased\u00a0some 5,000 objects, including prints, photographs, books, and pamphlets. In the 1940s, Stillman made a large gift to the university, including a number of items from his personal\u00a0collection of materials relating to Japan. Some of the\u00a0photograph albums he donated contain\u00a0hand-colored albumen prints taken by notable\u00a0photographers such as Felice Beato, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, Kusakabe Kimbei, and Tamamura Kozaburo. These photo albums were popular souvenir\u00a0items\u00a0for\u00a0foreign tourists. The albums would often include images of priests, pilgrims,\u00a0actors, singers, street vendors, along with representative locations ranging from the urban markets to parks and gardens to spiritual shrines.<\/p>\n

In this two album set from the Meiji period are\u00a0scenic views of Tokyo,\u00a0Koganei, Yokohama, Kamakura, Kobe, Matsushima Bay, and Awaji Island. Beautiful photographs of\u00a0natural scenery, people, daily life, traditional customs, with iconic images of cherry trees, gardens, temples,\u00a0shrines, teahouses, ferries, and rickshaws.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In another three album composite souvenir set are\u00a0photographs taken in and around the inland city of Nikko, with an emphasis on the historic Shinto shrines\u00a0and\u00a0Buddhist temples.<\/p>\n

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Japanese photographs of the Meiji period [graphic]. 1868-1897? 2 albums.<\/span>\u00a0<\/dd>\n
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Photographs relating to Japan, 1898 [graphic]. ca. 1880-ca. 1895. 3 albums.<\/span>\u00a0<\/dd>\n
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A slideshow of this collection is available at:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stillman Photograph Albums of Japan – Slideshow<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

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Additional information on E.G. Stillman’s\u00a0collections and access to the photograph albums is available\u00a0at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard College Library-Early Photography of Japan<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. E.G. (Ernest Goodrich) Stillman,\u00a0son of successful banker James Stillman, received degrees from Harvard and Columbia before pursuing a career in medical research.\u00a0A devoted philanthropist and conservationist, Stillman\u00a0was a\u00a0generous benefactor of Harvard University. Like many\u00a0Americans at the end of the 19th century, Stillman\u00a0was drawn to Japan for its art, literature, culture, and history. During a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}