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People, Places & Things

Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, c. 1965.
Completion of the Chuo Main Line Railway commemorative postcard, Nagoya, c. 1911.
Thousand-person Stitches (Sennin-bari) propaganda postcard, c. 1940.
“Gyokushodo” incense store advertising postcard, Shitaya, Tokyo, c. 1920.
Nippon Pencil Manufacturing Co., Tokyo, c. 1930.
Imperial Japanese Navy training cruise to Hawaii, the U.S. and Canada, 1914.
Opening of the Kyoto electric streetcar system (1895) commemorative postcard, c. 1905.
Shirokiya Department Store advertising postcard, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, c. 1930.
“Mitsui Salicylic Acid”, Miike Dye Works, Mitsui Mining Co., Omuta, Kyushu, c. 1928.
Aerial view of Shinjuku Gyoen and Nishi-Shinjuku water treatment plant, Tokyo, c. 1960.
“Japan Post” New Year’s promotional postcard (“Nengajou”), c. 1930.
“Year of the Dragon” (“Ryuu”), New Year’s postcards, 1916-1940.
Kosaka Copper Mine, Kosaka, Akita Prefecture, c. 1920.
“Kyoto Tayū dochu”. Procession of tayū and kamuro through the “flower town” (hanamichi), Kyoto, c. 1920.
“Gatekeeper of Kenko-kan”, c. 1920.
“Five Important Persons of the New Government”, commemorative postcard, c. 1910.
“The Miyagi, An Agricultural College”, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, c. 1910.
Fukuju Life Insurance Co. New Year’s advertising postcard, Nagoya, 1930.
Five-Storied Pagodas, c. 1910-30.
Early victories of the Great East Asia War, propaganda postcard series, c. 1942.
Kusushigatake Observatory meteorological station, Mt. Fuji, 1937.
Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby with Annapolis Naval Academy Class of 1881 alumni and wives, 1922.
“General Head-Quarters of the Manchurian Armies in Mukden”, 1906.

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