Artist

B.L. Singley

Nationality

American

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Date of Work

c. 1904

Date of Work

1904

Medium

Stereoscopic Slide

Height

3.5

Width

7

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection.

Status

Stored: SS-Box-JSP-1

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Additional Information

Black and white photo of a man sitting under a tree, overlooking several fields and a town below.

Text on front left:

Keystone View Company

Manufacturers Publishers

Copyright 1904, by

B. L. Singley. Made in U.S.A.

Text on front below image:

14716 - Kiryu, Japan.

Text on front right:

Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore., New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng.

Text on back:

Kiryu is 81 miles by rail north-northwest of Tokio. It is an important town of about 25,000 people. The chief products are silk, satin, crape, and gauze. A large factory, called the Nippon Orimono Kwaisha, is equipped with French machinery for the manufacture of satin in the European style. A canal, cut for the purpose, brings water from the adjacent hills for the use of this factory.

This is a good representative view of Japanese land- The low mountains, the houses of a single story with thatched or tiled roofs-with trees and gardens and fields interspersed; the tiny farms, cultivated so carefully that weeds are as scarce as diamonds; the dwarfish trees; the boy in his gay kimono, that brings to memory Joseph's coat of many colors-everything is typically Japanese.

Copyright, 1904, by Keystone View Company.

Condition

Good

Condition Notes

Large crease running horizontally across the length of the slide

Rights

Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”

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