(JAPAN)<> Exquisite album entitled "Scenes of Japan" containing 104 photographs of Japanese life, comprising a wonderful series related to tea making including the operations of John C. Siegfried & Co., Kobe, a series depicting the processing of rice, another series on silk, and occupationals; group portraits of Aino and Menoko tribespeople, requisite views of pretty geishas dancing, eating, grooming, sleeping, and dressing; street scenes, landscapes and architectural views of Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Nikko, Kioto, and more. Albumen prints, 8¼x10½ inches (20.9x26.7 cm.) and the reverse, with captions in the negative; mounted one per page recto and verso. Oblong folio, ½ morocco, worn. 1870s-80s
