PBA Galleries

2 album volumes. With 74 total hand-colored albumen photographs, approximately 3½x5½" each, mounted on thick card-stock leaves (one per side), some captioned in the negative, others in pencil in card margin. One 5¾x7½, bound in accordion-style pictorial lacquered wooden board (lacks rear board), with floral patterned designs; other in full decorative leather with colored stamped designs (front and rear). Both are period oblong albums.

Tranquil locales in the heart of Japan, rural villages, high bridges with waterfalls, teahouses, plantations, rickshaws, many of finely dressed women including a Japanese woman after taking opium, and more.