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[Full-length portrait of Imperial Japanese Troupe member Koman Sumidagawa] [graphic] / F. S. Keeler, S. E. cor. Eighth & Market Sts., Philadelphia.
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Creator
Keeler, F. S. (Francis S.), photographer.
Title
[Full-length portrait of Imperial Japanese Troupe member Koman Sumidagawa] [graphic] / F. S. Keeler, S. E. cor. Eighth & Market Sts., Philadelphia.
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date
[ca. 1867]
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 6 x 10 cm (2.5 x 4 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description
Full-length portrait of Koman Sumidagawa, a top spinner in the Imperial Japanese Troupe. She wears her hair tied back with two kanzashi (decorative hair ornaments), and is attired in a kimono with a brooch at the neck, and geta (sandals with a raised wooden base). She sits on a wooden chair and holds a book in her left hand on her lap. Her right elbow rests on a desk. On top of the desk is a vase with flowers, a book, and papers. A curtain drapes down in the right. Richard Risley Carlisle (1814-1874), known as Professor Risley, assembled and managed a group of eighteen Japanese acrobats and musicians from Yokohama, Japan called the Imperial Japanese Troupe. They toured America in 1867, performing in Philadelphia in March. They then travelled to Europe, including Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content and active dates of photographer at address in his imprint.
Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Subject
Sumidagawa, Koman -- Portraits.
Imperial Japanese Troupe.
Entertainers -- Japanese.
Japanese.
Kimonos.
Studio props.
Women -- Japanese.
AAPI.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - photographer - Keeler [P.9573.37]
Accession number
P.9573.37
In Collections
Asian American and Pacific Islander History Collection
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