Oriental Collection (page 61)

Motomachi Street, Kobe, Japan, with Sakaeya & Co on the left, selling stamps and postcards, the towns first postcard publisher. circa 1910

Japanese lacquer postcard artist at work in a London shop. Date: circa 1924

Park scene with cherry blossom, Tokyo, Japan
Park scene with cherry blossom and people, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1910

Country scene near Nagasaki, Japan
Country scene with farm workers near Nagasaki, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Comic scene in restaurant, Nagasaki, Japan
Comic scene in a traditional Japanese restaurant, Nagasaki, Japan, with westerners removing their shoes. Date: circa 1910

Ii Naosuke Monument, Yokohama, Japan
Ii Naosuke Monument, in the grounds of Hikone Castle, Yokohama, Japan. Ii Naosuke (1815-1860) was daimyo (lord) of Hikone (1850-1860) and Tairo (high-ranking government official)

Grand Hotel, Yokohama, Japan, with cars and rickshaws outside. circa 1918

Railway station, Tokyo, Japan
View of the railway station, Tokyo, Japan. circa 1920s

Matsuzakaya department store, Tokyo, Japan. circa 1930

Kabuki Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
View of the Kabuki Theatre, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1930s

Japanese Naval Types (2 of 2)
Japanese Naval Types. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1908

Japanese Naval Types (1 of 2)
Japanese Naval Types. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1908

Tsutenkaku tower, Shinsekai, Osaka, Japan
Tsutenkaku (meaning Tower Reaching Heaven), in the Shinsekai district of Osaka, Japan. Based on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it was built in 1912. Date: circa 1920s

Hiroshima Girls Seminary, Hiroshima, Japan. circa 1908

Japanese boy and British boy, Russo-Japanese War
Thats How Its Done -- A Japanese boy and a British boy at the time of the Russo-Japanese War, looking at a toy cannon. Date: 1905

Royal Navy visit to Japan after the Russo-Japanese War, showing British sailors on decorated trams. Date: circa 1907

Business card, Calton Bar, Kobe, Japan
Business card for the Calton (or Carlton) Bar, Sannomiyacho, Kobe, Japan, the finest place in town, with service by more than a dozen beautiful girls

Minatogawa Public Garden, Kobe, Japan
People in Minatogawa Public Garden, Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1910

Tsukishima Temple, Hyogo, Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1910

Bund at Akashi, near Kobe, Japan, with a horse on the beach. Date: circa 1910

Street scene with parasols in Kobe, Japan
Motomachi Street, showing women with parasols, in Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1925

Women taking tea, Nak Tong Mission, Seoul, Korea
Korean and western women having tea outside the Nak Tong Mission House, Seoul, Korea. The western women are missionary teachers from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG)

Large ship in Kobe Harbour, Japan
Large ship with smaller craft in Kobe Harbour, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Street scene with cinema in Kobe, Japan
Minato-Gawa (Theatre Street) with the Kwansai-Ichi Asahikwan Cinema in Kobe, Japan. Posters outside the cinema depict Eileen Sedgwick in The Diamond Queen (1921). Date: circa 1921

Street scene in Kobe, Japan
Street scene with gate and stone lanterns in Kobe, Japan, at the approach to the Ikuta Shrine. circa 1925

General view of Gengzan, North Korea
General view of Gengzan (Genzan, now Wonsan), North Korea. Date: circa 1920

Japanese soldiers arriving in Seoul, Korea, during the Russo-Japanese War. Date: circa 1904-1905

Young women in typical summer dress, Korea
Two young women in typical summer dress, Korea. Date: circa 1950

Inchon Military Port, South Korea
Inchon (Incheon) Military Port, 21st Transportation Medium Port, South Korea, July 1954. It was a US Army command post during the Korean War. Date: 1954

High Street with trolley bus, Singapore
High Street with trolley bus no. 28, Singapore. circa 1920

Young woman from Penang, Malaysia, wearing a nose ring. Date: circa 1905

Tibetan horsemen, Tibet region, south west China
Tibetan horsemen in the Tibet region, south west China. According to the original caption, they are displaying their skills of horsemanship

Two Sani women, Yunnan Province, south west China
Two young Sani women of Yunnan Province, south west China, playing Chinese lutes. Date: 1953

Yi woman of China
A Yi militiawoman, belonging to one of Chinas many ethnic minorities. The Yi (or Lolo) live mostly in mountain areas. Date: 1953

Miao woman of southern China with woven baskets. Date: 1953

Two horsewomen, Inner Mongolia, northern China
Two horsewomen of Inner Mongolia, northern China. Date: 1953

People shopping, Inner Mongolia, northern China
People shopping at a market stall in Inner Mongolia, northern China. Date: 1953

Kazakh national dance, Xinjiang, north west China
A woman performing a Kazakh national dance in Xinjiang (Sinkiang, Chinese Turkestan), north west China, with musicians playing in the background. Date: 1953

Men of Xinjiang, north west China
Men of Xinjiang (Sinkiang, Chinese Turkestan), north west China, admiring a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong. Date: 1953

Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei island, China
Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei (Weihai) island, China, when it was a British colony. Date: circa 1910

Aerial view of Chengte, Jehol, China
Aerial view of Chengte, a walled and gated city, capital of Jehol Province, China. Date: circa 1935

Dragon procession, China
Dragon procession in a rural area, China, on a Church Missionary Society postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Botanical Garden, Hong Kong, China
Scene at the Botanical Garden, Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1905

Rickshaw scene made from used postage stamps, China. Date: circa 1905

Two film stars in Paris Plaisirs magazine: Madge Bellamy (Fox Film) and Agnes Petersen, as seen in the film Scheherazade (Alliance Cinematographique Europeene). Date: circa 1928

Oriental broad-tailed sheep with its tail on a carriage, Ovis orientalis laticaudata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, and oriental or Indian Darter, Anhinga melanogaster.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

POLAND. Warsaw. The first World war. Oriental front (1914). Russian soldiers, combatants of the Vistula belonging to the regiments of Siberia, in the streets of Warsaw

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