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Woman reading a book Tamamura, Kozaburo, Japanese , 1856 CE- [photographer] Studio portrait. Materials/Techniques: Hand-colored albumen print mounted on cardboard hinged in accordion-fold album. Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Historical: Ernest Goodrich Stillman, the son of American financier and banker James Stillman, earned his BA from Harvard in 1908 and his MD from Columbia in 1913. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1915-1949. A generous benefactor of Harvard University, he had many interests, including photography and collecting Japanese art and literature. Regarded as an originator of "Yokohama shashin" for tourists, Tamamura Kozaburo opened his first studio in Tokyo in 1874 and then moved to Yokohama in 1883. For the next 30 years he became one of the most successful and popular commercial photographers in Japan by selling souvenir photograph albums to foreigners and taking profitable commissions from various organizations. He received many awards for his photography before his son Tamamura Kihei took over the business in 1916.
Provenance: Gift of E.G. Stillman to Widener Library, 1930, later transferred to the Fine Arts Library.
Harvard Fine Arts Library Special Collections