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[Union Iron Works construction of Imperial Japanese Navy ship Chitose photograph album].
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Title:

[Union Iron Works construction of Imperial Japanese Navy ship Chitose photograph album]

Abstract:

Commercially produced photograph album documenting construction of the Chitose, an armored cruiser built by Union Iron Works of San Francisco, Calif. for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Photographs depict construction views; officials of U.I.W., officers the I.J.N., and other figures associated with the ship; and exterior and interior views of the ship taken during the year following its 1898 launching.

Date:

1897 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Shipbuilding -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Cruisers (Warships) -- California -- San Francisco -- Design and construction -- Photographs
Construction navale -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Chitose (Ship) -- Photographs
Union Iron Works Co. -- Photographs
Japan. -- Kaigun -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer, publisher unknown.
Printed caption labels, including dates, in English mounted beneath each photograph.
Accordion fold binding structure covered with illustrated Japanese silk cloth boards.
Purchase from Zephyr Used and Rare Books ; 2022.
Union Iron Works construction of I.J.N. Chitose photograph album, BANC PIC 2022.155, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photograph albums.
Albumen prints.

Physical Description:

photoprint
34 photographs in 1 album : albumen prints mounted to accordion album panels ; prints 10 x 13 cm or smaller, album 15 x 20 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California