Nationality
American
Title of Work
Preview
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