Inventory of the Japanese pictorial collection

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Title: Japanese pictorial collection
Date (inclusive): 1875-1975
Collection Number: XX769
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 10 oversize boxes, 5 envelopes, 1 album, 1 oversize folder (13.16 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photographs depicting scenes of daily life, prominent personalities, and miscellaneous scenes in Japan and from the Russo-Japanese War, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the American occupation of post-World War II Japan.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Japanese pictorial collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 -- Pictorial works
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Pictorial works
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Campaigns -- China
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931-1933
Kumamoto-ken (Japan)
Japan -- Pictorial works
Pictorial works
Photographs
Photograph albums
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
Japan. Rikugun. Kantōgun

album fA

1 album containing 50 prints of various Japanese views and groups, pertaining to Japanese late 19th century social history

box 9

1 print of an unidentified Chinese delegation posing with Japanese officials in Shiba Garden, Tokyo

envelope mC

1 print of Inazo Nitobe, Japanese educator and agronomist, and League of Nations Official

envelope D

1 print of crowd watching national election returns being posted April 11, 1946

envelope E

9 prints depicting Japan Prime Minister Takeo Miki and/or his wife and family, and others, including Kiichi Miyazawa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mrs. Junko Tabei, first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest

box 9

Reproduction of painting by K. Tsukamoto of the battle of Tsushima Strait 1905

box 1

Undescribed photographs and postcards

box 2

Album of tinted prints of various places and Japanese in traditional costumes in Japan circa 1903

Scope and Contents note

Miyajima, Kasuga Shrine, Hakone, Kyoto, Kamakura, Yokohama, and Tokyo.
box 2

7 hand-tinted photographs of various locations around Nikko 1903

box 3

Lieutenant F.H. Bair photographs of Japan in the months after World War II 1945 November - 1946 May

box 8, folder 4

Photographs of General Yamamoto Isoroku, exercise of the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the air unit of the Japanese Imperial Navy 1940-1945

 

Albums and photographs related to the Kwantung Army 1931-1937

box 4

Photo album of captioned pictures of the Japanse army campaign in Tianjing and Inner Mongolia 1937

Scope and Contents

Black album with embossed illustration of nautical themes.
box 5

Two photo alubums of the captioned pictures of the Japanse army campaign in Manchuria 1934

Scope and Contents

One album with red and black striped paper boards. One album with blue paper boards and gold and green floral decoration. Includes photographs of horses.
box 6

One photo album of the Japanese army campaign in Manchuria ca. 1934-1937

Scope and Contents

One album with brown paper boards and embossed floral pattern on cover. Includes photographs of captured Chinese, Japanese soldiers in gas masks, landscapes, daily life, and Chinese women.
box 7

Photo album of Kwantung Army soldiers 1931-1933

Scope and Contents

One album with brown paper boards.
box 8, folder 1-2

Photographs of Kwantung Army of the Japanese Empire in northern China 1931-1933

box 8, folder 3

Postcards of Rehe campaign 1931-1933

box 8, folder 5

満州事変関東軍記念写真帳 (Manchurian Incident Kwantung Army Commemorative Album) 1931-1933

Scope and Contents

One album with green felt covers and embossed plate on front board.
os_folder 1

Color-illustrations of Japanese historical figures and the banquet for Commodore Matthew Perry 1907-1920

box 10

Album containing 274 black and white photographs of Allied Forces' activities in Okinawa and daily local life 1948-1951

box 3, folder 8

東京名所 (Postcards of Renowned Places in Tokyo) circa 1920s

Scope and Contents

16 postcards.
box 3, folder 9

東京名所 (Postcards of Renowned Places in Tokyo) late 20th century

Scope and Contents

12 postcards.
box 3, folder 10

大東京名所絵はがき集主婦之友第16巻第9号附録絵葉書 (Postcards of Great Tokyo Renowned Places, Shufu no tomo vol. 16, no. 9 supplemental) 1932

Scope and Contents

69 black and white postcards
box 11

Black and white photograph album of a military hospital during the Second Sino-Japanese War and a visit by actress Yamaguchi Yoshiko 1930s-1945

box 12, folder 1-35

Photographs of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō's visit to the US in 1911, taken by Japanese American Aiko studio in Seattle 1911

Biographical / Historical

Aiko Studio, located in Seattle's Nihonmachi area, was one of several photography studios that catered to the Japanese American community before World War II.
box 13, folder 1

Photographs of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō's visit to the US in 1911, taken by Japanese American Aiko studio in Seattle 1911

Biographical / Historical

Aiko Studio, located in Seattle's Nihonmachi area, was one of several photography studios that catered to the Japanese American community before World War II.