Finding aid for Views of Korea and Japan, 1910 94.R.22
Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2023
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Title: Views of Korea and Japan
Identifier/Call Number: 94.R.22
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
Date: 1910
Abstract: An album of 36 views of daily life in Holkol and Pyongyang, Korea, and ten views of Kobe and Kyoto,
Japan, taken by four traveling missionary women.
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Language of Material:
English .
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 1994.
Digitized Material
The collection was digitized in 2023 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/94r22
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of Korea and Japan, 1910.
Biographical/Historical Note
Hol Kol Mine is a gold and copper mine located 75 kilometers southeast of Pyongyang in what is now North Korea. In the mid-
nineteenth century the mine
was operated by the Korean royal family, and then by a succession of British, Korean, American, and Japanese interests during
the early twentieth
century. The album was compiled by a young American woman identified only as Ethel, who was perhaps the daughter or wife of
an Ameican mining official,
residing in the mining village of Holkol (Hol-gol, North Korea).
Preferred Citation
Views of Korea and Japan, 1910, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 94.R.22.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa94r22
Processing Information
The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album contains 36 gelatin silver snapshots of daily life in the mining village of Holkol (Hol-gul, North Korea) and neighboring
Pyongyang, and ten
views of Kobe and Kyoto, Japan.
The photographs of Holkol depict life in that mining village, including cutting ice blocks for summer; activities at a grist
mill; Korean villagers,
clothes washing on the hillside, and other scenes. Views in Pyongyang include the Tahlong (Tatong) River bridge. Five American
and/or European women,
including the compiler, appear in various photographs throughout the album. The photographs of Japan appear to be from a trip
that Ethel, the compiler
of the album, took to that country with her mother and include a view of Kobe and its harbor taken from Suwayama Park; rickshaw
stands; and other street
scenes in Kobe, Kyoto, and Kamakura.
The leporello album is bound in green cloth with "Photo Album" in debossed gilt letters on the front cover. The album comprises
24 pages with
photographs pasted on both sides of each page. The inscription on the first page (1 recto) reads "Hokol, Korea, November 25,
1910. The inscription on
the second page (2 recto) reads: Birthday greetings / from / Ethel and her fiery steed. Ethel, the young American woman who
compiled the album for her
friend is depicted in Holkol standing with another woman (page 10 verso), and again in Kobe, riding in an open carriage with
her mother (page 20
verso).
Titles for most of the photographs are from the early twentieth century captions written in American English on the mounts
below the images.
Consequently, some of the language in the titles, such as coolies (from the Hindi and Urdu word qulī which became an offensive
term used for unskilled,
low-wage workers) is now considered to be outdated, racist, or offensive.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japan -- Description and travel
Korea -- Description and travel
Photograph albums -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- Japan -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- Korea -- 20th century
Snapshots -- Korea -- 20th century
Snapshots -- Japan -- 20th century
Accordion album bindings -- 20th century
Views of Korea and Japan, Series I.
1910
Views of Korea and Japan (digitized version)
Arrangement
In original order.
box 1, page 1 recto
Page with inscription 94.R.22-1r
Scope and Contents
The incription reads "Holkol, Korea, November 25, 1910.
box 1, page 2 recto
Page with inscription 94.R.22-
Scope and Contents
The incription reads: Birthday greetings / from /Ethel and her fiery steed.
box 1, page 4 recto
The Mill Last Winter 94.R.22-4r
box 1, page 5 recto
Holkol (the Mine Village) in the Snow 94.R.22-5r
box 1, page 6 recto
Cutting Ice in the Dam to Be Packed for Summer 94.R.22-6r
box 1, page 7 recto
The "Sawmill" 94.R.22-7r
Scope and Contents
Depicts two men wielding a large double-handled saw.
box 1, page 8 recto
Looking up the Road toward Holkol from Our House 94.R.22-8r
box 1, page 9 recto
Holkol 94.R.22-9r
Scope and Contents
View of snow-coverd mountains with the village nestled below them.
box 1, page 10 recto
A Grist Mill "Next Door" to Us 94.R.22-10r
Scope and Contents
Depicts two Korean woman standing at the entrance to the mill.
box 1, page 11 recto
An Old Man, One of Our Neighbors 94.R.22-11r
box 1, page 12 recto
A Well in the Village near Us, Soctane 94.R.22-12r
box 1, page 13 recto
Girls Sifting Grain in front of the Grist Mill 94.R.22-13r
box 1, page 14 recto
Another View of the Girls 94.R.22-14r
box 1, page 15 recto
A Winter Clothes Line 94.R.22-15r
box 1, page 16 recto
Holkol 94.R.22-16r
Scope and Contents
Depicts a thatch-roofed house in winter with inhabitants standing outside near a clothesline.
box 1, page 17 recto
Notice the Long stemmed Pipe in the Woman's Mouth 94.R.22-17r
Scope and Contents
Depicts a womna, man, and ox standing in front of thatch huts.
box 1, page 18 recto
A Group of Travelers 94.R.22-18r
box 1, page 19 recto
A Village Dignitary 94.R.22-19r
box 1, page 20 recto
Two Teeth - But They Hit! 94.R.22-20r
Scope and Contents
Depicts Two Women, One Stanidng in Profile and Carrying a Baby on Her Back
box 1, page 21 recto
Korean Children 94.R.22-21r
box 1, page 22 recto
Any Korean Peasant Woman 94.R.22-22r
box 1, page 23 recto
A Holkol "Store" 94.R.22-23r
box 1, page 2 verso
Korean Boy in Holiday Attire, New Year's 94.R.22-2v
box 1, page 3 verso
Road a Mile Away 94.R.22-3v
box 1, page 4 verso
Japanese Store in Holkol 94.R.22-4v
box 1, page 5 verso
Bull Laden with Brush for Fuel 94.R.22-5v
box 1, page 6 verso
Group of Korean Children in P'Yang; Virginia Wells 94.R.22-6v
box 1, page 7 verso
The Tah-tong River in P'Yang 94.R.22-7v
box 1, page 8 verso
Result of Two Hours Hunting Last Winter 94.R.22-8v
Scope and Contents
Depicts three men and their catch of three deer.
box 1, page 9 verso
[American Woman in Long Coat Standing with Two Korean Women] 94.R.22-9v
box 1, page 10 verso
Page with two photographs 94.R.22-10v
box 1, page 10 verso-1
Mrs. Cullbran and I 94.R.22-10v.1
box 1, page 11 verso
Two Corners of My Room 94.R.22-11v
box 1, page 12 verso
[Dressing Table] 94.R.22-12v
box 1, page 13 verso
Page with two photographs 94.R.22-13v
box 1, page 13 verso-1
Coolie with a "Jiggy" 94.R.22-13v.1
Scope and Contents
Depicts a Korean worker standing on a road outside a thatch hut.
box 1, page 13 verso-2
Snow-covered Hills 94.R.22-13v.2
box 1, page 14 verso
Japan 94.R.22-14v
Scope and Contents
No photograph on page.
box 1, page 15 verso
View of Kobe Taken from Suwayama Park 94.R.22-15v
box 1, page 16 verso
Page with two photographs 94.R.22-16v
box 1, page 16 verso-1
P.M.S.S.
Asia at Kobe
94.R.22-16v.1
box 1, page 17 verso
Kobe from Our Window at the Oriental Hotel 94.R.22-17v
box 1, page 18 verso
Riksha Stand at the Steamer Landing, Kobe 94.R.22-18v
box 1, page 19 verso
Mother and I in Kobe 94.R.22-19v
box 1, page 20 verso
Taken from the Train in Japan 94.R.22-20v
box 1, page 21 verso
Page with two photographs 94.R.22-21v
box 1, page 21 verso-1
Kyoto 94.R.22-21v.1
Scope and Contents
Depicts an American woman riding in a rickshaw.
box 1, page 21 verso-2
Hotel at Kamakura near Yokohama 94.R.22-21v.2
box 1, page 22 verso
Street in Kyoto 94.R.22-22v
