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Rickshaw Album

Images from Japan taken from an album of hand-tinted albumen photographs produced for the tourist trade in the late 19th century. The album cover is black lacquer, inlaid with a design of a woman being transported in a rickshaw. This album includes images of farming, gardens, buildings, villages, priests, people of various professions, studio portraits, rituals, temples, and examples of costumes.