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Title: | Flower ceremony. (Etz-Trudell collection of hand-colored lantern slides of Japan) | |
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Item Identifier: | VSCO 086 (HISPH Accession Number) | |
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Work Type: | lantern slides; ethnographic views | |
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Date: | 1900-1940 | |
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Description: | Slides depict scenery like views of Mount Fuji and lakes or rice paddies. A good part of the material deals with craftsmen and their workshops, stores and merchandise displays as well as farmers in the fields or peasants with water wheels. Also includes some documentation of silk production and tea harvesting. Religious ceremonies and temples, pilgrimages and shrines (in Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, etc.) are also shown. The ethnic minority, the Ainu people, are recorded on a few slides. Although many of the slides are of architecture, they also show various aspects of life in Japan. | |
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Dimensions: | 8 x 10 cm | |
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Associated Name: | Etz, Roger Frederick (1886-1950), United States, collector Trudell, Dorothy Etz (n.d.), donor |
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Topics: | temples; temples, Buddhist; Shinto shrines; religious ceremonies; pilgrimage art; marketplaces; missionaries | |
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Style/Period: | Showa Period (1926-1989); Taisho; Meiji | |
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Materials/Techniques: | hand coloring lantern slides, hand-colored. |
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Note: | Provenance: Gift of Dorothy Etz Trudell (daughter of the Rev. Etz) to Harvard University -- 1981. General: This collection, originally, was mostly purchased by Rev. Roger Frederick Etz (1886-1950) in 1934 when he was in Japan, India and Korea as a "good will ambassador" for the Universalist Church. Given to Harvard University in 1981 by Dorothy Etz Trudell (daughter of the Rev. Etz). |
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Related Information: | For further information, please see HOLLIS record 10155668. | |
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Use Restrictions: | Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections:Harvard Fine Arts Library, Visual Collections - Historical Photographs:Access to original photographs and negatives in the collection is restricted, all rights reserved. Digital images made from slides: Copyright 2007; all rights reserved. Photographs and images from the collection may be reproduced only with written permission. Contact Visual Collections, Fine Arts Library. | |
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Repository: | Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections VSCO 086 00203 |
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