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 box, 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
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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
Photographs and postcards not yet described
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.
box 1, folder 3
Photographs not yet described
1945-1960s